DEMOCRATIC presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton went head to head in primary contests in Kentucky and OR yesterday, with results expected this morning.
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Clinton said that his wife would seek to reduce Puerto Rico’s dependence on oil to lower expensive power bills and that she supports the right of Puerto Ricans to vote in presidential elections since they’re US citizens.
Later, at Canaan Christian Church, she stressed rising above negativity.
“My husband, who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, ’cause you know he knows how to do it”, Mrs. Clinton said at a rally in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, over the weekend.
The longevity of the Democratic contest is in contrast to the Republican race, where every candidate except businessman Donald Trump has dropped out, leaving him as the presumptive nominee two months ahead of the party’s nominating convention.
The Democratic race is unlikely to wrap up before California, New Jersey and several other states vote on June 7.
OR is favourable terrain for Mr Sanders, but Mrs Clinton’s campaign thinks the race is competitive in Kentucky, where she planned to spend Sunday and Monday courting voters. She won the state easily in 2008, but recent comments about putting coal miners out of work have hurt her. And so she wants to avoid losing twice on Tuesday.
After Sanders won both West Virginia and IN this month, analysts said he has a good chance of taking Kentucky.
Mr Trump is only 103 delegates short of the 1,237 needed to clinch the Republican nomination and Mrs Clinton is 143 short of the 2,383 Democratic delegates she needs.
The hostilities began when Sanders supporters accused state party leaders of putting them at a disadvantage, and they objected to procedural votes to approve the rules of the event on Saturday.
Hillary Clinton got into it with a heckler at a Kentucky rally after the woman objected to Clinton calling out the state’s Republican governor, Matt Bevin. “Another goal is to help the community register voters and remind people that primary day is coming”. I haven’t seen anything that says this should stop… They’d also produced a “minority report” of 64 Sanders supporters who they said were wrongly denied delegate status – which the state party explained by saying those individuals’ records couldn’t be located or they weren’t registered as Democrats by the May 1 deadline. That’s to say nothing of Clinton’s huge edge among superdelegates – a project Sanders is saving for later. “There’s a lot of people that are in love with Bernie Sanders, but I don’t think he is electable and she is”.
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In a sign of the tensions between the two sides, Sanders issued a defiant statement on Tuesday dismissing complaints from Nevada Democrats as “nonsense” and said his supporters were not being treated with “fairness and respect”.
