Exit polls in Indiana on Tuesday showed about 7 in 10 Indiana Democrats said they’d be excited or at least optimistic about either a Clinton or Sanders presidency. He calls both aggressive attack surrogates on the campaign trail for Clinton.Sanders said he submitted the names of more than 40 people to serve on three standing committees and only three of his recommendations were selected by Wasserman Schultz.
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It is mathematically impossible for Bernie Sanders to win enough delegates in the remaining Democratic contests to secure the nomination, but his aides see a path through a convention battle in Philadelphia that would target the party’s superdelegates.
The former MA congressman will serve as a surrogate for the former secretary of state while Phish’s Jon Fishman will speak on behalf of the senator from Vermont, both on Saturday.
“New Jersey Democrats don’t have anything against Booker”, said Murray.
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Judy Woodruff will interview Sanders ahead of next week’s Democratic primary in West Virginia. Including superdelegates the elected party leaders and officials who can choose the candidate of their choice Clinton is more than 90 percent of the way to clinching the nomination.In the letter, Sanders notes that Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will be in charge of the conventions platform committee and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank will run the rules committee. That’s very hard to do because Democrats allocate their delegates proportionally. He said he voted for Sanders even though he doesn’t think the Vermont senator can win.
“I know that as we transform our energy system there will be people that will be hurt”, Sanders said at a rally in Morgantown.
Sanders’ focus on helping coal workers comes after Clinton was criticized for saying in a March town hall that clean energy policies would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”.
Sanders touted his lead in West Virginia this week during several campaign stops where he laid out his economic agenda and plan to invest $41 billion to help coal communities transition away from fossil fuels.
Clinton apologized for the remark at a campaign event in Kentucky this week and said it was taken out of context.
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Asked about this comment, Sanders was similar to Clinton’s point of view.
