Clinton also raised $9.5 million in April for the Hillary Victory Fund – a joint fundraising operation that includes the Clinton presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and 32 state parties.
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From April 28-30, more than 115,000 individual donors contributed to Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Sanders and his campaign officials have said that the layoffs were an effort to consolidate resources to focus on the remaining states.
In order to keep pace with Clinton, Sanders needs to raise the kind of money he was getting in the first three months of the year.
“What our campaign is doing is bringing millions of Americans into the political process”, said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, in a statement. Four percent of respondents said they were unsure.
Sanders’ take, raised nearly entirely online, fell about $20 million short of the $46 million he posted in March. The Sanders campaign did not report how much cash it has on hand.
Clinton is still 91 percent of the way to the nomination, according to the Associated Press. She is 218 delegates away from winning the 2,383 need to clinch the nomination.
“The only card she has to play is the woman’s card”.
“The evidence is extremely clear that I would be the stronger candidate to defeat Donald Trump”, said Sanders.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Sunday told a crowd of hundreds at her Indianapolis rally that her presidency would be one of unity, not division.
Clinton’s aim in the two-day swing through Appalachia is to begin outreach to underserved communities that may be ground zero for Donald Trump’s attempts to build a bigger Republican coalition. Huckabee Sanders expressed confidence Trump would win them over.
Clinton spoke out against the state’s new abortion law.
Asked if the campaign had any internal polling to suggest that they might be able to win the remaining states by the large margins need to pull ahead, Sanders’ senior strategist Tad Devine said: “We believe the states ahead represent a real opportunity for Bernie”.
The legislation bans abortions for several factors not deemed life-threatening. “If she were not a woman, she wouldn’t even be in the race”.
Clinton also delivered a speech Sunday to the NAACP in Detroit. He was speaking at a press conference in Washington, D.C., before heading to campaign events in IN ahead of the primary in that state on Tuesday.
But Sanders has vowed to pressure super delegates to switch their allegiance, declaring “The convention will be a contested contest”.
“In states where either candidate… has won a landslide victory, those superdelegates ought to seriously reflect on whether they should cast their superdelegate vote in line with the wishes of the people of their states”, he added, noting that Clinton would be just as entitled to superdelegates in states where she had won “landslide” victories.
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“It is not an impossible road to climb”, he reiterated.
