Sanders listed several reasons why he is different from Hillary Clinton, including campaign finance and the war in Iraq, both of which got big responses from the audience.
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As voters across the Kentucky River handed him a slight win over the Democratic presidential front-runner in Tuesday’s in primary, U.S. Sen.
“Well if you’re concerned about manufacturing, don’t support trade policies that will cost us millions of jobs”, Sanders says.
They also said the transfers between state parties and DNC are to pay for campaigns that “will coordinate with local, state and federal Democratic campaigns to work to elect progressives across the country in November”. Along with her 2008 win, Bill Clinton locked in the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination in the state, which he carried in his two presidential contests.
Clinton, speaking to a fired-up crowd at a gym in Indianapolis, hit Trump for dividing people without understanding the consequences, arguing that those actions have led to the violent protests that have occurred around some of his events. He admitted that he has a “tough road to climb”, but “not an impossible road to climb”.
Clinton also used a line she has routinely deployed to hit Sanders, suggesting that the Vermont senator knows how to diagnose the problem but not how to fix it. “And what happened a year ago is not as important as what’s going to happen in June of this year”.
He said Sunday on Face the Nation of the superdelegates debacle, ‘that’s not the point at all’.
According to Sanders, he would need to win 65 per cent of the remaining pledged delegates in upcoming primaries to pull ahead of Clinton.
To win the nomination, he’d then have to convince superdelegates to ditch her. With superdelegates, Clinton is 91 percent of the way to the magic number of 2,383.
Despite her overwhelming lead – a loss at this point would be unprecedented – Clinton has resisted calling for Sanders to drop out of the race, even as she has made unmistakeable shifts toward the general election. The super-delegate structure may inherently benefit establishment candidates.
Clinton will need superdelegates to take her over the top at the convention in Philadelphia, Sanders told reporters Sunday at the National Press Club in Washington. That would require sweeping victories by Sanders in coming states large and small, including California, where Clinton holds a lead in polling. Because of federal election rules, campaigns are allowed to raise upwards of $350,000 from individuals for joint fundraising efforts. The campaign said last month’s total far outpaces his average of $17 million raised per month.
The April fundraising figures might be the first sign of acceptance among hardcore Sanders supporters that Clinton is the inevitable presidential nominee for Democrats. This months deficit means he won’t have as much cash to pour into California’s expensive media market.
Clinton campaign officials declined to respond to Sanders’s comments.
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And barring a catastrophe for Clinton in IN, there will be no way for Sanders to earn enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination outright after Tuesday.
