Sanders’ rival, Hillary Clinton, already appears to be looking beyond the primary contests with Sanders and toward the November general election.
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Bernie Sanders. Going into Tuesday night’s contests, Clinton had a lead of 1,428 delegates to Sanders’ 1,153. Despite this fact, Sanders say it doesn’t mean he’s giving up.
“Let’s go forward, let’s win the nomination, and in July let’s return as a unified party”, she said.
This is not the first time that the campaign has laid off staff, having done so before after the Vermont Senator’s losses on March 15th’s Super Tuesday. The Indianapolis Star reports that Sanders sounded far from defeated when he addressed supporters at two Indiana universities on Wednesday.
“I will do everything that I can, and I think Hillary Clinton and I agree on this, that we will do everything we can to make sure that a Republican does not win the White House”, the senator told MSNBC on Wednesday.
But speaking in Evansville in the hotly-contested state, he continued to rail against what he calls the “crooked way” the party picks its nominee and claimed his rival Ted Cruz is unfairly winning delegates.
“He’s done a very, very good job as governor”, Trump said. “But right now, we have to use all of the resources we have and focus them on the remaining states”.
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives at the podium to speak to supporters during her five state primary night rally held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 26, 2016.
An astonishing Republican presidential primary season has taken another unusual turn.
Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs told reporters traveling with Sanders that the decision, first reported by the New York Times, would have been made regardless of Tuesday’s election results.
If Trump fails to get to that number until the convention, a new vote at the gathering will decide who will be the Republican presidential candidate.
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Clinton and Trump have been exchanging jabs for days over the gender-based critique, with Trump doubling down on his attack while Clinton has knocked him for suggesting she was “shouting”. Sanders than more differences that divide them. “She does not have the strength and stamina” to be the president of the United States and successfully handle countries like China, Japan and Mexico, he said.
