Clinton won the Nevada caucus in February with 53 percent of the vote, to Sanders’s 47 percent. Many political pundits are projecting a fairly clear path to victory for her and are wondering if Clinton will pick Sanders as her vice president? .
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Some Sanders supporters, whose violent shouting and chair throwing ended the Nevada Democratic Party’s convention, have caused increasing concern among many senior party leaders.
Party officials refused to take his candidacy seriously at first, and if they rigged anything it was the debate schedule, which put early faceoffs between him and Clinton on weekend nights when few were watching. Sanders has already pushed Hillary to the left so far this election, she doesn’t support TPP anymore and supports a public option Medicare buy-in.
Sanders has remained in the race despite almost insurmountable odds of reaching the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Sanders took away 28 delegates from his 54.8 percent-42.5 percent win in OR, and each candidate got 27 delegates in Kentucky where Clinton won by 0.5 percent. Trump himself has announced a kind of snarky solidarity with Sanders, telling voters and Twitter followers that the senator should bolt the party over his foul treatment.
“When Bernie Sanders got into this race, I’m guessing his big hope was to push the Democratic Party to the left on economic issues, and he has”, Professor Sanders told Sputnik.
New York Democratic Representative Steve Israel added that because a Sanders win has become all but impossible, he needs to turn his attention toward consolidating the Democratic base rather than continuing to divide it. -An excerpt from Bernie Sanders statementBradley S. Schrager, a lawyer for the Nevada State Democratic Party, wrote in a letter to the two co-chairs of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee that the Sanders campaign has a “penchant for extra-parliamentary behavior – indeed, actual violence – in place of democratic conduct in a convention setting”.
With almost all votes counted in Kentucky, Clinton was leading Sanders by a narrow margin of about 1,800 votes. It said some delegates did not show up at the convention and others were disqualified because they were not registered as Democrats in time.
Hillary Clinton certainly wants to have the support of Sanders’ youth army, but his endorsement will likely not be for free.
Boxer said in an interview that she spoke with Sanders this week, and found her Vermont colleague very upset, insisting “my people wouldn’t do this”.
“Right now, when you look at the average of all the polls Clinton does lead”.
As they contemplate Sanders’s “contested contest” at the Philadelphia convention, Clinton supporters think warmly back to 2008.
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“I think we have a real shot to win primaries in a number of states coming up”, he said. “I love this campaign, but I love my country more”. When you boo me, you’re booing Bernie Sanders.
