The more delegates he amasses in remaining contests, the stronger a voice he’ll have on the committee that crafts the official party platform.
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Trump, on the other hand, is in a significantly weaker position. That means Trump has to legitimately compete all the way to California.
And there’s an even more important problem for Trump’s claim: His own success among Republican women doesn’t have anything to say about how well or poorly Clinton is doing with women. This won’t be an easy undertaking by any measure.
Overall, 91% of Republican voters think Trump will ultimately be the party’s nominee.
Hillary Clinton, who planned to campaign in Williamson on Monday, has been criticized for comments that her policies would put coal miners and companies out of business.
“Let’s make sure”, she said, “love trumps hate once and for all”.
Why? Because as we’ve seen throughout this unpredictable and mind-blowing election that is full of surprises, anything can happen.
Her speeches were once full of knocks on Sanders, but now she often goes days without mentioning him in public.
That said, even among women voting in these GOP primaries, Trump experiences a gender gap: According to these exit polls, women – by a modest but consistent margin – supported Trump by smaller margins than men did. Much of this is due to the prolonged trench warfare between Sanders and Clinton and the extended period of mudslinging that raised her negatives. The network quoted Lewandowski as saying: “You have two candidates in Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders which have reignited a group of people who have been disenfranchised and disappointed with the way Washington, D.C., and career politicians have run the country…” Instead aides have taken to noting that both Sanders and Clinton were offered and signed the same agreement. “It’s one of the reasons he can’t win a general election”.
To catch Clinton, Sanders said he would need to win 65 per cent of the delegates in the remaining contests, starting in IN on Tuesday. She’s done a lousy job in so many ways and even women don’t like her. They don’t like her, he said.
Polls show only a little more than a third of voters consider her “honest” and “trustworthy”. A lot of this has been driven by the onslaught of attacks from the Republican Party’s political machine. Their coveted votes could decide the nomination between Clinton and Sanders (currently 520 back Clinton, compared to 39 for Sanders). His April fundraising numbers may be a sign that his supporters realize the presidency is increasingly out of his grasp.
The solution? Clinton should take a preemptive strike against the notion that she’s not trustworthy.
“If fighting for women’s health care, and paid family leave, and equal pay is playing the woman card”, she said, “then deal me in”. Such a move will help to calm the nerves of skeptical voters, many of which may have previously sided with Sanders.
If Trump wins, he’ll cement his commanding lead and inch ever-closer to clinching the Republican nomination ahead of this summer’s convention. Nonetheless, Trump said, “It’s a sound bite”.
Speaking to thousands at an NAACP dinner in Detroit on Sunday, Clinton pointed to Donald Trump’s “insidious” role in the birther movement that questioned Obama’s citizenship and his refusal to immediately denounce white supremacist David Duke. It’s an issue that plagued Mitt Romney against President Obama in the 2012 election and can have a similar negative affect on Trump. Furthermore, the Pew report found that Trump’s and Sanders’ supporters were the most likely on their respective sides of the ideological divide to be angry at the government; believe that the economic system unfairly favors powerful interests; and are more isolationist, believing that America’s involvement in global problems makes those problems worse.
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Invoking a similar theme, Trump has condemned free trade on the stump just like Sanders.
