Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has a simple explanation for why he’s trailing Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House: Poor people don’t vote.
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Or he could wind up being the guy the TV networks call when they want to find a Democrat who’ll criticize Clinton.
He also said that “It wasn’t just Trump and Clinton’s handsome victories that brought a possible general-election showdown between the two into view, although, clearly, that was part of it”, continuing to explain that “practically speaking, it is now hard to see how either Cruz or Sanders could get enough delegates to win”.
Aides to Clinton say they had always planned for an extended and cash-hungry primary, hoping to avoid a repeat of her 2008 blunder, when she had to lend her campaign millions of dollars to stay afloat after running short of primary cash. “I think the NY results just will push us in that direction”, Murphy said.
In a defiant speech, Trump also attacked his Republican rival, Ted Cruz, as the battle for the 2016 presidential nominations enters its final stages.
And I wish I could tell you that establishment politics and establishment economics and the same old, same old are going to do something different than has been the case in the past, but it’s not. “What we want to do is understand why there is so much crime, and that is directly related to the fact that in this city, and in many other cities around America, we have unemployment rates for young kids of 40, 50 or 60 percent”, said Sanders.
If Trump outperforms his polls like he did in NY, he could do even better than some expect – again inching him closer to the 1,237 mark.
Donald Trump (left), Hillary Clinton (center) and Bill Clinton (right) at Trump’s wedding reception held at The Mar-a-Lago Club in January 22, 2005 in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Politico. Many of them are in response to his inflammatory rhetoric on immigration and Muslims. She was joined at a local doughnut shop with Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who recalled the former secretary of state’s time as a law student at nearby Yale University.
But back to the Trump New York win. Or will he gracefully yield to the inevitable and lead an effort to persuade his angry, wounded supporters to get behind Clinton’s candidacy in the name of party unity?
Trump was expected to do well in his home state, leading Ohio Gov. John Kasich by about 30 points in the polls going into Tuesday’s vote with an average of 53 per cent support, according to RealClearPolitics.
Trump will reportedly tone it down – using a speechwriter, talking foreign policy, but still leaning on Ted Cruz to drop out.
The Texas senator continued: “When Donald talks about building a wall, when Donald talks about enforcing immigration laws, when Donald talks about, I guess, anything, that it’s all an act, a show”. I think we can win there. Like in NY, it employs a hybrid system that awards those delegates on both winner-take-all basis statewide and by congressional district. Sanders has 1,151 pledged delegates and 38 superdelegates.
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Kasich and Cruz both need to win more delegates than are available in the remaining primary contests to secure the Republican nomination on the first ballot. The 25 at-large delegates decided Saturday, combined with 21 previously allocated delegates mean that Trump will get 17 delegates, Cruz will get 15 delegates and Kasich will get seven.
