Democrats are hoping to use state conventions to unite supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders ahead of the presidential election.
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In Washington state, Sanders handily won the caucus on March 26, when the Vermont senator won 25 of the 34 delegates awarded that day.
Most political experts seem to agree that Sanders can not overtake Clinton prior to the national convention, although he has pledged to stay in the race until the last votes are counted.
Three days after emerging as the all-but-certain Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump launched a full-scale attack on Hillary Clinton over the way she handled her husband’s infidelity.
Probably not. Now the Republican and Democrats move their traveling road shows to California and other states, and then to their respective national conventions.
Party leaders in ME will try to unite the two factions at a convention held Friday and Saturday in Portland.
He said Clinton will appeal to a large portion of the general electorate because of the dangers of a Trump presidency.
Seeing Trump as their enemy, many liberals are opining that Hillary is the lesser evil, saying they will vote for her.
On May 3, Sanders supporters had a come from behind victory in IN – the 19th time the upstart Senator defeated Clinton, who’s been running for president for almost a decade.
“He wants to meet, we’re going to see what happens”, he said at the Spokane rally, adding that he believes Ryan regrets the decision. “We’re in a political environment now where there’s something going on with polling, and those polls – whether they’re good for you or bad for you – those polls are not the most reliable vehicles in which to make a judgment”, he said. The party said it had a multistep process for awarding delegates and could not immediately generate the more detailed information.
Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders injected some campaign funds into Guam, Politico noted, with each spending more than $10,000 on radio advertisements.
As it stands, Clinton is 155 delegates away from clinching the nomination.
If she can instead pull out solid victories this month in West Virginia, Kentucky and OR – and get some additional endorsements from superdelegates – Clinton could end up celebrating as a presumptive nominee in a place in need of some financial attention: Puerto Rico on June 5. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and favorite of the left whom some would like to see as Clinton’s running mate, repeatedly calling her a “goofus”.
However, answering a question about Trump’s rise to becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee, Sanders said that it has hurt the country. Because of that high turnout, many Democratic caucus-goers endured long waits and prompted some leaders to call for replacing Maine’s caucus system with a primary system. “What I’m hearing from him talk about, ‘Oh let other countries have nuclear weapons, ‘” she said. He said Sanders has done an “extraordinary job” of raising important issues.
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The Sanders campaign has voiced concern over the appointments but has not yet decided whether it will protest them formally, according to USA Today.
