The Republican front-runner has had pushback from women’s groups, columnists and on social media since saying on April 26 that the only thing Clinton, a former secretary of state and US senator, had going for her in the race to succeed President Barack Obama was her gender.
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Sanders had been outraising Clinton.
Clinton has now raised $213.5 million in primary funds for the campaign and more than $46 million for national and state Democratic parties.
The Sanders campaign, for example, reportedly raised $25.8 million in April, down from $44 million in March and $43.5 million in February.
When asked later whether his internal polling suggests he could hit that mark, Sanders said that it was a “steep climb” but that his campaign’s numbers look “pretty good for us” in places like California.
Pressure is mounting on the self-proclaimed social democrat after Clinton’s victories in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders insisted that his path to the nomination depends on the unlikely prospect of flipping superdelegates who are now committed to Clinton. Sanders is not doing that and has been sharply critical of the enormous donations possible under the joint structure.
White House hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has fought the Democratic establishment throughout his campaign, made an extraordinary appeal Sunday for party insiders to help deliver the nomination to him, even if he doesn’t catch rival Hillary Clinton in the remaining primaries and caucuses.
That said, if all the superdelegates in states that have already voted aligned with the general Democratic populations of their respective states, Clinton would have 374 superdelegates and Sanders would have 147, the ABC News analysis shows. The Sanders campaign did not report how much cash it has on hand.
Sanders has routinely outpaced Clinton in fundraising this year thanks to a dedicated base of small donors. Clinton has focused on finding people willing to give the maximum $2,700 per person during the primary.
Garden State voters have become used to being treated as an afterthought in the presidential nomination process. Among superdelegates, Clinton leads 520 to 39. It was not immediately known whether any of those were former Sanders supporters.
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.
Earlier this week he announced that he was laying off hundreds of staffers after losses last month in NY and several East coast primaries. The plan, Weaver said, is to ensure that the race is “determined by the superdelegates”.
“It’s virtually impossible for Secretary Clinton to reach the majority of convention delegates by June 14 with pledged delegates alone”, he told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington on Sunday.
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The practical import of this shifty standard is that Team Sanders will be justified in treating Clinton’s nomination as in question until the first ballot in Philadelphia has ended, which in turn will make challenges on credentials, rules, and, most of all, the platform in order.
