Bernie Sanders has brought in about $26 million in April in his primary challenge to Hillary Clinton, marking one year on Sunday in his insurgent bid for the Democratic nomination. Many credit the agreement with manufacturing jobs leaving the US for Mexico.
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“You know, we’re not calling superdelegates and saying, ‘Will you switch your vote?'” Sanders continued during her appearance on CNN’s “New Day”.
DONALD Trump’s sweep this week of primaries in five Northeastern states, and Hillary Clinton’s near sweep, increase the likelihood that these two will face off this fall for the presidency.
Hillary Clinton is 91 percent of the way to clinching the Democratic nomination, when including superdelegates. Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to support a third-party candidate. She is now one of the worst performing Democrat candidates in a very long time.
Trump leads 48% to 35% among men but trails Clinton by a similar 44% to 34% among women.
Clinton’s campaign had largely written off the IN primary before Sunday.
Rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich remain in the race and are hoping to force a contested convention by denying Trump a majority of delegates.
Plans are also beginning to take shape for a convention that will prominently feature Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton and the vice presidential nominee. She is 218 delegates away from winning the 2,383 need to clinch the nomination.
“Sanders said at a rally at Purdue University in IN on Wednesday that he was “in this campaign to win and become the Democratic nominee”, adding, “If we do not win, we intend to win every delegate that we can so that when we go to Philadelphia in July we’re going to have the votes to put together the strongest progressive agenda that any political party has ever seen”.
Bill Clinton planned to attend a rally later in Charleston.
Cruz, who is trailing Trump badly in delegates, has placed a strong emphasis on in and a loss here in Tuesday’s primary could be crippling toward his campaign. Sanders would also have to convince superdelegates to vote against the national pledged delegate leader an unprecedented political maneuver. As of last month, his total fundraising was outpacing Hillary Clinton by almost $20 million.
On CBS, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has endorsed Cruz even though he has said he loathes the Texas senator, said Trump’s foreign policy amounts to “isolationism”.
Not purposely, of course.
Sanders has outpaced Clinton in fundraising, though.
“His (Trump) talk about pulling out of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, his talk about letting other countries have nuclear weapons, which runs counter to 70 years of bipartisan national security policy, his idea that he – quote – “has a secret plan” to get rid of ISIS and he’s not going to tell anybody, I find it disturbing because I know that the stakes are high, that we face some real challenges and dangers in the world”, she said. Trump didn’t mention that Sanders has since retreated from his own comment and said that Clinton, a lawyer, former senator and onetime secretary of state, is intelligent and experienced.
He spoke ahead of Tuesday’s IN primary, with 57 GOP delegates at stake.
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A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll in March indicated that 33 percent of Sanders supporters would not support Clinton. Most of Clinton’s stump speech is now aimed at the boisterous businessman and not at Sanders, who she has taken to largely ignoring.
