Sanders supporters became angry when Nevada state party officials chose to end their convention and block efforts to award the USA senator from Vermont more delegates than he initially won in the February caucus.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has for the first time edged out his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a latest poll even as majority of respondents have an high unfavorable opinion of both the aspirants.
“There are widely spread news reports about chairs being thrown”.
The violence exhibited by some Sanders supporters at the Nevada state Democratic convention last Saturday is proof that there is little difference between the extremes on the right and the extremes on the left. With heated exchanges between Mr. Sanders and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid over the last two days, the turbulence in the Democratic camp now appears threatening its general election prospects.
Boxer wasn’t the only Democratic senator to condemn Sanders’ supporters behavior over the weekend. At some point between now and the final moments of the Democratic national convention, he will. “At that convention the Democratic leadership used its power to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking place”, he said. So far, Clinton has remained non-committal.
“Sanders’ win in OR wasn’t almost enough to put him in a realistic place to overtake Clinton in the number of pledged delegates – but it did mean he’ll close Tuesday’s contests with more delegates that day than Clinton, and it’ll keep his campaign chugging along”, reports CNN.com.
In a tweet, Donald Trump questioned why Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes called the state’s primary race for Hillary Clinton.
Sanders’ win put a damper on Clinton’s close victory in Kentucky, where she was declared the unofficial victor by the state’s secretary of state. (The Kentucky win, a margin of 2,000 votes, still has yet to be officially certified.) But even with her narrow state-level victories, Clinton still claims a huge delegate lead, 2,291 to Bernie Sanders’s 1,528 – largely due to her command of “super-delegates”.
Sanders dominated in Eastern and Western Kentucky, particularly around the coal fields, while Clinton won the state’s urban areas and a swath of counties through the central part of the state.
Clinton is going to head into the general election tattered and torn after a long and intense primary battle, thanks to Sanders who has exposed the weakness and vulnerability in her candidacy and the Clinton machine.
“Well, let me be as clear as I can be”, he continued.
Trump – the last man standing in the Republican race – was projected Oregon’s Republican victor, moving closer to the 1,237 delegates he needs to officially claim the party’s mantle in 2016. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in Carson, Calif.
And we knew that, that’s why we modeled it a couple different ways, that younger voters, the more they showed up, the more it was going to favor Sanders.
Sanders spokesman Jeff Weaver said on Wednesday that Sanders categorically condemned any kind of threats as unacceptable.
According to the campaign, Sanders will speak about getting big money out of politics, his plan to make public colleges and universities tuition- free, combating climate change and ensuring universal health care.
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Unlike in the votes that took place last week, there was a sizable number of delegates available in the Democratic primaries that were held in Kentucky and OR on Tuesday.
