Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, has reminded his supporters at crowded rallies that most opinion polls indicate he would beat Trump in a general election match-up by a larger margin than polls show Clinton defeating Trump. After all, Clinton and Trump are now neck-in-neck in the polls. On Saturday, Democratic voters chose among party members running either as Clinton delegates or as Sanders delegates.
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Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is likely to face pressure to clean up his language. The talk that Sanders supporters would switch to Trump, while maybe partly true in West Virginia, is untrue elsewhere in the country. Maybe, but the movement may well be concentrated within just one of the parties: the GOP.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, the party’s highest-ranking elected official, has said he is unable to endorse him because he lacks conservative principles. Among voters without party affiliation, the Clinton-Trump split is 49-28 percent, with 23 percent undecided.
Trump said in a Fox interview on Tuesday night that he would like Ryan to chair the convention as planned. Over the past week, Clinton has picked up the endorsements of 87 more superdelegates, according to a new Associated Press survey.
Back at MSNBC, Mitchell asked Sanders if he was giving Trump weapons to use against Clinton.
It was added that, in spite of this win, Sanders is still trailing behind Clinton, who is now leading in delegate counts. Hillary Clinton needs Bernie Sanders because she’s going to be the nominee.
In West Virginia, roughly six in 10 voters said they were very anxious about the direction of the US economy in the next few years, according to a preliminary ABC News exit poll.
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.
The host was quick to point out that West Virginia Democrats have some discrepancies with their peers, and the lack of support for Clinton could be attributed to her saying in March that she’d get rid of all coal jobs. “With this outcome, we now have won primaries and caucuses in 19 states”.
New Jersey carries 142 delegates, who will be awarded proportionally. Bernie Sanders in a Monmouth University poll conducted May 1 to May 3.
Bernie Sanders, the only other remaining Democratic candidate, runs even better against Trump, leading him 50 percent to 39 percent in a head to head match-up.
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What does this mean for the general election?
