Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with young parents during a roundtable discussion at the Family Care Center in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, May 10, 2016.
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The defeat slows Clinton’s march to the nomination, but she is still heavily favoured to become the Democratic candidate in the November 8 election.
As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) bumps along in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, media-bashing appears to move closer and closer to his core message. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found earlier this month that a majority of voters did not trust either candidate with key presidential responsibilities such as managing the USA economy, handling the role of US commander in chief, and conducting themselves according to a “high moral standard”.
The Vermont senator’s victory bolsters his decision to stay in the race even though the delegate math is heavily in Clinton’s favor.
According to NPR’s analysis going into Tuesday, to get a pledged majority Sanders needed 65 percent of all remaining pledged delegates.
Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan seemed to try to ease tensions with Trump, telling The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he would step down as co-chairman of this July’s Republican Convention if that’s what Trump wants. While this sounds like good news on the surface, Sanders’ problem is that he is still far behind Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Preliminary results include interviews with 734 Democratic primary voters and 566 Republican primary voters in West Virginia, and with 653 Republican primary voters in Nebraska.
Clinton and Sanders will compete in another primary contest on May 17. But it didn’t heal party wounds by a longshot, as some GOP leaders have held off on endorsing him. Over the weekend, the presumptive GOP nominee raised the issue repeatedly at campaign stops in OR and Washington, claiming that Clinton mistreated the women who have accused her husband of misconduct and sexual abuse.
With more than 90% of polls reporting, the senator had 51.3% of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 36%.
As Trump was speaking, however, his campaign posted a new ad on Instagram assailing Clinton for her response to the attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
The surveys were conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research as voters left their polling places at 25 randomly selected sites in West Virginia and 20 in Nebraska.
Jane Sanders disputed that the campaign was running out of options. “We are going to fight for every last vote”.
She quickly pivoted: “But at least we both have plans!” she said, implying that Trump did not. I’ve known about her for 30 years, just like everybody else has.
“I think that’s the definition of a loose cannon”. Clinton, by contrast, has prevailed by an even larger margin among the biggest group – those who want to continue along the route Obama has followed.
Clinton’s campaign hopes suburban women, turned off by Trump’s bombastic rhetoric, could be a key source of support for her in the fall.
Before Trump made the trek out to Washington state, Clinton told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that she would not run an “ugly race”. Sanders has won about 61 percent of the 2,383 necessary.
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The next primaries will take place in Kentucky and OR on May 17.
