These latest contests put Clinton at 1,767 pledged delegates and Sanders at 1,488.
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For his part, Sanders has sharpened his critique of the party.
Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton was in Louisville, Bowling Green, Fort Mitchell, Hopkinsville, Lexington and elsewhere. Half an hour after polls closed in Oregon, US networks projected Sanders the victor there, besting Clinton 53 percent to 47 percent.
A Virgin Islands superdelegate who was supporting Bernie Sanders has switched his allegiance to Hillary Clinton.
Clinton backers say the Sanders supporters simply do not understand the process. Sanders holds an average of 41.3 percent support to Clinton’s 51 percent in the state, according to RealClearPolitics.
Warnings from top Democrats on Capitol Hill have failed to broker peace, and Sanders supporters say the heated discussion is healthy for a party trapped in the past.
AP Photo/John MinchilloDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. “Sanders will do the right thing”.
MSNBC played some of the voicemails, including one saying “people like you should be hung in a public execution”. “He and I had a very long conversation”, Reid said of the call. Obama barely visited the state in 2008 and had essentially locked up the nomination before Kentucky’s primary.
Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that if a another situation like the chaos at the Nevada Democratic Convention occurs again, Sen.
Nevada Democratic Party chairwoman, Roberta Lange, said she and her family, including a 5-year-old grandson, have received death threats and numerous callers have disrupted her workplace.
Few are demanding publicly that Sanders get out of the race immediately.
The results bring Clinton to within 100 of the 2,383 needed to clinch the nomination.
Looming over all the uncertainty is the prospect of violence in Philadelphia like the riots that marred the 1968 convention in Chicago. Then they would take the fight all the way to the convention to make sure the vision of social, economic, racial and environmental justice is seen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said.
Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in Kentucky, a state where she was not expected to be victorious.
Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, was the last Democrat to carry the state in a presidential election – he won Kentucky in 1992 and 1996 – and the former first lady tried to emphasize those ties in the days leading up to the primary. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton sought to avoid primary losses i.
Sanders was favored in OR, which is among the nation’s most liberal states.
Clinton has more superdelegates on her side. Sanders and his advisers can claim to have sparked a movement. “We are in until the last ballot is cast”, Sanders said to cheers. Now they want to be sure he’ll transfer that energy to Clinton’s campaign.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie sanders facing off in two contests overnight with sanders the victor in Oregon, Clinton claiming victory in Kentucky.
When superdelegates, or party officials who are free to support the candidate of their choice, are included in the count, Clinton has 2,291 to Sanders’ 1,528.
A spokesman for Lee said US Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a key Trump adviser, was also at the meeting.
Sanders hasn’t made his intentions clear. But Sanders and his supporters are simmering, if not boiling over, with that grievance now. Sanders said many people have suggested that he drop out of the presidential race.
But senior adviser Ted Devine brushed aside concerns about Sanders’ loyalty to the Democratic cause.
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Associated Press writer Scott Bauer contributed from Madison, Wisconsin.
