But if she moves into a general election matchup with Trump, she may continue to be dogged by questions about voter enthusiasm, especially as Trump pledges to continue his raucous rallies. Tim Kaine, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Reps.
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“I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me”, she told her supporters.
Still, the differences are clear.
“Last I heard, Hillary Clinton is running for president of the United States”. But that number doesn’t get him to the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. “Bernie Sanders does not need Hillary Clinton, because he’s not going to be the nominee”. But since March, the Sanders campaign has been talking up how it can get superdelegates to flip from Clinton, particularly those from states where Sanders won big.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. They allege in their lawsuit that the state party did not do enough to advise delegates about the correct deadline to file for party office, causing several people to miss the deadline and not be able to run for office. Just like, ‘Fine! I’m just gonna go vote for Trump.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely Democratic Voters believe the Democratic Party should be more like Clinton, but 39% say it should be more like Sanders.
The result in the West Virginia Democratic primary underscored the awkward position Clinton and the party’s establishment face as they attempt to turn their focus to the general election.
She said her comment had been taken out of context and that she wanted to help retrain people who worked in the industry, one of the state’s biggest employers.
Sanders and Trump have reveled in their large crowds as evidence of the power of their message.
Edward Milam, of Cross Lanes, West Virginia, is a self-described socialist who gave money to the Sanders campaign but his vote Tuesday to Clinton.
“My coalition of voters is incredible”, Trump said. And that’s how you know he takes him seriously as a threat.
Morelli added that although she and other members of the group had received some encouragement from Clinton supporters, they have been cautious about who they have included in their plans. Nevertheless, Trump has essentially wrapped up the Republican nomination as the only remaining candidate, and Clinton holds a significant Democratic delegate lead over challenger Sen.
But at the same time, Carville said, “it’s not like Trump doesn’t have problems”.
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The sheer bitterness and rancour in the Republican Party in course of the nomination process for the presidential election had overshadowed the politics within the Democratic Party, but the acrimony, while less ugly and less public, is no less.
