Is Hillary Clinton’s edge in Democratic superdelegates over Bernie Sanders unfair? On May 23, Clinton justified her continued White House bid by noting that in 1968, Democratic presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June, after winning the California primary.
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If Clinton is indicted, the superdelegates over whom she holds a commanding lead could massively desert her. The only thing that binds them is their promise, a promise few would hesitate to break if they were convinced that Clinton would lose in the general election.
Putting aside the fact that caucuses are not exactly a bastion of fair and democratic representation, the biggest problem with this argument is that even if they all voted the way that Sanders wants, Clinton would still have a 363-to-147 advantage in superdelegates. After her victory in New York, Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told reporters that the campaign expected Clinton to be the nominee but that Sanders had a right to continue to fight.
According to a report from CBS, Mrs. Cruz was supposed to say that her husband was a son of an immigrant instead.
A new NBC News / Wall Street Journal / Maris poll has Clinton leading Sanders by just four points with 50 percent to 46 percent in the Hoosier State. And I have a lot of empathy about this, Anderson. Because they are closer to November, that’s why, you know.
“We’ve got some candidates in this race who are trying to divide us”, she said. “The ideas we are fighting for are the future of the Democratic party and indeed the future of this country”, he said on Sunday, repeating his ambition to go to Philadelphia with a mandate that requires policy shifts from the party – and Clinton.
WASHINGTON (AP) Trailing significantly in the Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders wants superdelegates to flip his way and is aiming for a contested national convention in July against front-runner Hillary Clinton. He said he would do whatever it takes to help stop Trump – except, apparently, start to wind down his campaign. On May 1, 2008, Clinton loaned her bankrupt campaign $1 million (following at least $10 million in earlier loans).
If Clinton secures the nomination Sanders vowed to “work as hard as I can” to make sure Trump or another Republican doesn’t win. Even Obama has acknowledged that convincing those groups to vote could pose a challenge. Barack Obama eight years ago. “There are six months until Election Day”.
Devine acknowledged that if she does expand her pledged delegate lead, it will be “practically impossible” to prevail on super-delegates to switch.
With entire chapters of his presidential legacy riding on who succeeds him, no one has more stake in the party coming together than Obama. Sanders is not doing that and has been sharply critical of the enormous donations possible under the joint structure. But there’s zero effort to push the Vermont senator from the race – either explicitly or behind the scenes.
In the lead-up to the NY primary, the Sanders campaign accused on Monday Clinton of engaging in money laundering to circumvent campaign finance restrictions that limit a candidate to raising $2,700 from each individual donor.
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Sanders argues that the superdelegates should back him because national polls show he would defeat Trump by a wider margin than Clinton would.
