“Let us make certain that on June 7, California has the biggest voter turnout in the history of the state for a Democratic primary”.
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The Sanders victory could potentially influence superdelegates that have already pledged support for Hillary Clinton, but are free to change their minds. The Oregon primary is May 17, and while Sanders needs more than 66 percent of the remaining share of the delegates to catch up with Clinton, his campaign’s lasting strength is likely to impact the Democratic Party’s platform at their national convention.
West Virginians are also voting in a Democratic showdown for governor, a state Supreme Court race and other contests. The few polls that do exist for West Virginia show Sanders with an average six point lead, according to RCP.
Trump faced voters for the first time since his victory in the in primary on May 3 prompted leading rival Ted Cruz to drop out and made Trump the presumptive Republican standard-bearer.
The NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll claims Bernie would get 53 percent of votes while Donald Trump gets 40 percent among registered voters if the election were held today. Over the past week, her attention has been focused on Donald Trump.
The same poll also found that 75 percent of Democrats felt the same way about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as their standard-bearer for the White House.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT) showed Clinton and Trump running neck-and-neck in three states that could be pivotal in the outcome of November’s election – Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania – with Sanders holding an edge over Trump in each of them.
Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, and Clinton is far ahead of Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination. 2,383 are needed to win the Democratic nomination and 29 are awarded in West Virginia.
But don’t hold your breath for Sanders’ full-throated endorsement of Clinton either.
Her team went up with a $160,000 ad buy in Kentucky on Tuesday, a modest effort aimed at cutting into Sanders’ support before the state’s primary in a week.
“I have three million more votes than Senator Sanders and two million more votes than Donald Trump”.
Johnson is a Trump supporter who tells The Associated Press that he received an email from Clark earlier Tuesday informing him that his name had been “erroneously listed” as a delegate.
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Whether that means Sanders will become a loyal soldier in the Clinton army, or join the Stop Trump wave, remains to be seen.
