At one point, police in riot gear and on horseback formed a barrier between the two groups outside Orange County’s Pacific Amphitheater, where Trump delivered a campaign speech. The news is potentially a sign that Bernie and company are preparing for defeat or that they don’t want to keep people on payroll unless needed. At a Wednesday rally in Indiana, Bernie told his fans that he is “in this campaign to win and become the Democratic nominee” – and not just, as many have speculated, to maintain leverage to influence the party platform at the election.
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Clinton’s victories build on her resounding success in NY, stunted Sanders’ momentum and left him fending off calls from Clinton supporters to fold his campaign so that she can start exclusively targeting Republicans. “Without the woman’s card, Hillary would not even be a viable person who could even run for a city council position”, he said.
Speaking to reporters in Madison on Thursday, Feingold complimented former Secretary of State Clinton’s support for President Barack Obama after their primary eight years ago.
Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, lost four out of five states that voted on Tuesday, only beating rival Hillary Clinton in Rhode Island.
Trump’s top aide and other supporters said the focus on Clinton’s gender was part of Trump’s emerging strategy for the general election and that he had no intention of hewing to traditional rules of political campaigns.
In a recent AP-GfK poll of the general population, women weren’t significantly more likely than men to have an unfavourable opinion of either Trump or Clinton.
The reasons include a combination of Trump’s celebrity, media exposure and higher-than-usual interest in his over-the-top candidacy, Ostermeier said. 7 per cent of the total votes polled. Democrats and those who decline to state a party affiliation are eligible to participate in the Democratic primary. It also comes after Mr. Cruz made a pact with Ohio Gov. John Kasich to team up against Mr. Trump in Indiana.
I spoke to Joyce Haas, the vice chair of the state Republican Party, who was an uncommitted candidate for delegate in the 5th Congressional District in Central and Western Pennsylvania. “We look forward to winning here in IN next Tuesday and in the few remaining states and territories holding primaries and caucuses in May and June”.
Democratic superdelegates are free to change which candidate they support.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. That’s where he announced Wednesday that he is tapping Fiorina as his vice presidential pick.
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Sanders also said Wednesday that he realizes he’s behind in delegates, “But you know what: unusual things happen in politics”. “I get along with nearly everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life”. And he said the Cruz-Kasich deal could have backfired with voters. He said the former House leader is “angry with me for standing up for the American people”.
