Hillary Clinton is under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and OR on Tuesday so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her by Republican candidate Donald Trump.
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Beshear’s legacy – especially his efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act in a Southern state – is closely tied to the pitch Clinton has made to voters: that she would continue President Barack Obama’s policies.
The Alaska Republican Party selected its delegates earlier this month, with three local Trump supporters and one each for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio selected to represent the state at the national convention in Cleveland. And that mightily offended the parts of Kentucky with big coal operations, bless her heart.
Sanders’s campaign has taken to saying that the superdelegates will determine the nomination, because neither candidate will have enough votes to get the nomination on his or her own. “I was here in 2008, the day before that primary and I hope it gives me the same positive victory that we had before!”
Mr. Sanders campaigned in Puerto Rico on Monday, but over the weekend, he made several stops in Kentucky, including visits to Frankfort, Elizabethtown and Bowling Green.
Sanders plans to stay in the race through the final voting next month that includes June 7 contests in California and New Jersey. He’s been succeeded by Republican Matt Bevin, who has set out to dismantle everything Beshear built, but also seen his approval ratings decline.
“I don’t know anyone who has a magical solution to the problem”, he said”.
The former governor of Arkansas, America’s third-poorest state, has expressed empathy for the plight of struggling voters and stressed that Mrs Clinton would fight for their welfare.
Lange said the restaurant where she works has received so many calls it had to unplug the phone.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich both suspended their campaigns two weeks ago, but will be on the ballot Tuesday and receive votes in Oregon. “If you have a wife, a mother, a daughter or sister who is working, it’s your issue”, Clinton says. “I want to help bring back the kind of economy that worked for everybody in the 1990s”, she said at the diner.
In the past week, while Clinton has barnstormed Kentucky, she has kept away from OR, which political experts have regarded as favorable terrain for Sanders, who has won in states with similar voting demographics of liberal-leaning and largely white Democrats.
The actual state of the race in Kentucky is anyone’s guess at this point given the relative lack of polling.
After losing the West Virginia primary to Sanders last week, the most recent polls show Clinton has a good shot at taking both states. Independents are not allowed to vote in Kentucky’s primary elections.
Recalling sunnier days of growth, low unemployment and budget surpluses under her husband, Hillary Clinton is telling Americans that Bill Clinton will be “in charge of revitalizing the economy” if she wins the White House.
But, depending on how Democrats vote today, it will certainly be a big bump in the road for one of them.
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While the outcome of the Kentucky primary won’t matter much in the overall delegate battle between Clinton and Sanders (Democrats award delegates proportionally), it could highlight the challenges ahead for Clinton in a potential matchup with Trump. Her husband also carried them in his 1992 and 1996 campaigns, and she’s been placing increased emphasis on his role in a possible Hillary Clinton administration, betting that he remains a popular figure in the region.
