The last thing I want is to give the same Obama/Clinton/Sanders philosophy another four years in charge. He campaigned in OR and California on Tuesday and his victory in West Virginia highlighted anew Clinton’s struggles to win over white men and independents – weaknesses Trump wants to exploit in the fall campaign.
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“If we start to get complacent, we’re going to be looking at a Trump presidency”, she wrote. But working class voters in industrial states are now supporting Trump. On Friday, the LA Times put itself behind Clinton with a grudging endorsement. “Bernie Sanders does not need Hillary Clinton, because he’s not going to be the nominee”.
Quinnipiac polls this week showed Clinton and Trump essentially tied in Pennsylvania and Florida and Trump holding a slight edge in Florida.
“She’s earned her stripes”, Barbra Siperstein, a DNC member and Clinton supporter said recently.
The three-page document addresses a question now facing Mr. Sanders’s most ardent supporters: how to harness the energy of a movement now that his presidential bid appears to be bowing to the reality that Mrs. Clinton will capture the Democratic nomination. “I want to grow a bigger, better, more inclusive Republican Party in OR that solves real problems for real people. Hillary’s stupid and she smells like Benghazi!’ Why would you say that?” While those victories have provided his supporters a fresh sense of momentum heading into next week’s primaries in Kentucky and OR, they did almost nothing to help Sanders cut into Clinton’s nearly insurmountable lead in the delegates who will decide their party’s nomination.
While the convention credentials committee ruled Hillary won, a Sanders supporter offered a minority report arguing 64 Sanders supporters were disqualified without a chance to prove their eligibility.
While a variety of Clinton backers praise Sanders for elevating issues like income inequality and the minimum wage, they warn that keeping up attacks on the front-runner will hurt the party and backfire on him. And they are not sure most Sanders supporters would vote for her. Meanwhile, Trump told Fox News that the proposed ban was “just a suggestion”.
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. The rest claim that they would vote third party or not vote at all.
“She has been in the public eye for decades, served in high office, and now she’s in a dead heat with Trump, in a race that everyone thought she would win easily”, said Carney, who has been critical of Trump.
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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.
