Sanders was favored in OR, which is among the nation’s most progressive states and the home to one of the senator’s largest rallies of his campaign past year in Portland. Ted Cruz and John Kasich, who both dropped out of the Republican race after weak results in the in primary earlier this month, both remain on the GOP ballot.
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The race in Kentucky was too close to call, but Clinton wrote on her Twitter feed: “We just won Kentucky!”
“I think if I endorsed Hillary that would be off-putting to a lot of Sanders’ supporters”, he said, describing the political environment in his state and across the nation. OR is holding a primary for the Republicans today, but it is essentially a formality at this point.
“Party leaders in Nevada, for example, claim that the Sanders campaign has a ‘penchant for violence'”.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says in a statement money will go toward expanding ground, data and digital operations to elect Republicans “up and down the ballot”.
Tuesday’s elections took place amid new questions about party unity following a divisive weekend state party convention in Nevada. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevadan and Clinton supporter, spoke privately with Sanders before the convention in an attempt to head off any chaos and said afterward that he held Sanders’ campaign accountable for the chaos.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battled to a neck-and-neck outcome in Kentucky’s presidential primary Tuesday, as Clinton declared victory and sought to blunt the momentum of her Democratic rival ahead of a likely general election matchup against Republican Donald Trump.
According to CNN Politics, the former Secretary of State’s campaign launched both TV and radio ads in target markets and dispatched surrogates to convince voters that she is the better option.
“He certainly has said that he will do everything – he will work seven days a week, night and day, to make sure Donald Trump is not president, and I’m confident that he will do that”, Weaver said.
The first report from the credentials committee on Saturday morning indicated that Clinton had a slight edge in delegates.
Prior to the state convention, some Sanders supporters began an effort to shift the convention rules in a way that they viewed as more favorable to their candidate. Both primaries are closed, meaning that only registered Democrats can participate. Messages range from exclusively expletives to accusations that Lange was paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Clinton has also done well in southern contests during the primary season. Those remarks contributed to a stinging loss for Clinton in last week’s West Virginia primary.
Clinton made three stops in Kentucky on Sunday, and was to make at least three more Monday.
Tick Segerblom, a Nevada state senator and Sanders backer, said in an interview Monday that he didn’t think the state party did anything improper but that it needed to reach out to the Sanders’ supporters.
The Sanders campaign is not immediately saying whether it will challenge the results.
By a wide margin (47% to 27%), Clinton supporters say they sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians in their dispute.
It’ll have to start with a win in Oregon.
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OR offers 61 delegates, while Kentucky offers another 55, for a combined total of 116. California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who has endorsed Clinton but has been a leading voice in the liberal wing of the party, was heckled loudly and with profanities while speaking to delegates on Clinton’s behalf. A total of 2,383 delegates are needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
