“Forget this one. The primary is gone”, Trump told a 13,000-strong West Virginia crowd, according to New York Magazine. Both Clinton and Sanders have plans to put tens of billions of dollars toward revitalizing struggling coal communities.
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Clinton, 68, has said she will ignore Trump’s personal insults, including his repeated use of his new nickname for her, “Crooked Hillary”, and instead will criticise his policy pronouncements.
But like IN, which delivered for Sanders a week ago, West Virginia is a state Clinton actually won eight years ago, toward the end of a losing campaign for the nomination against Barack Obama.
“Our vision is the future of America and the future of the Democratic primary”, Sanders said.
“Now, we fully acknowledge we are good at arithmetic, that we have an uphill climb ahead of us, but we are used to fighting uphill climbs”.
“We have a nominee, it looks like he may well be very competitive, and we want to win the White House”, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said.
With their candidate closing in on the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton supporters are reportedly wooing top donors of the Bush family, according to Politico. Clinton was speaking with parents at a childcare center in Kentucky. “The primary’s gone. Save your vote for the general election in November”.
While Clinton still has Sanders to worry about, Trump faces a rebellion within the Republican leadership over the insulting tone and shifting substance of his candidacy.
His speech hit his main platform proposals-economic inequality, universal health care, making public universities free-before Sanders turned his fire on Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee.
Trump became the party’s presumptive nominee after his victory last week in IN, which led his last remaining rivals to drop out of the race.
He pointed to polls as evidence that he remained the best Democratic candidate to beat Donald Trump.
West Virginia has a somewhat older population, which may lean toward Clinton, but also fewer black voters, which may be beneficial for Sanders, Regan said. “Save your vote for the general election, OK?”
Republican voters are also going to the polls in Nebraska on Tuesday. He’s got no rivals left, and it remains to be seen whether enough people will come out to vote for him to give him a record-breaking day.
But even with that win, he’s far behind Clinton in the all-important delegate count.
Despite Clinton’s overwhelming delegate lead, Sanders ensured the race would go on with his win in West Virginia, where he was ahead of Clinton by 11 percentage points with about a third of precincts reporting.
For his part, Sanders is vowing to fight on.
The campaign says potential delegate William Johnson had been rejected and removed from the campaign’s list in February.
Simpson, who grew up in South Charleston and is a veteran of Afghanistan, raised about $160,000 for his campaign.
A running total of primary votes maintained by The Associated Press shows that through last week’s IN primary, Trump had tallied 10,702,962 total votes.
‘We must act now to reenergize our manufacturing base, bolster our clean energy economy and protect the livelihoods of these workers and the communities they support, ‘ Sanders said in a statement.
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders visited Morgantown for an evening rally last week.
West Virginia is an open primary state, which translates into the possibility for independents to cast ballots. He took home 15 delegates from that caucus, while Ms Clinton won 10.
The eighth superdelegate has not said whom she is supporting.
Trump is coasting to the delegate finish line of 1,237, now with 1,119. To that endeavor, he said polls showing him defeating Trump work in his favor.
Democrats also held a primary election Tuesday in Nebraska, although the party allocated all its delegates to the summer nominating convention in an earlier caucus won by Sanders. Although is not impossible for Sanders, it would be hard to catch up winning 65 percent of the remaining delegates, but analysts have said that anything could happen.
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Gearan reported from Louisville and Lexington, Ky.
