Hillary Clinton is under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and OR on Tuesday so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her by Republican candidate Donald Trump. Thanks to everyone who turned out.
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Overall, Sanders picked up 55 delegates to Clinton’s 51 on Tuesday, with 10 delegates remaining pending the final vote tallies.
Kentucky, the state she won by 35 percentage points over Barack Obama in their 2008 primary clash and where her family has deep political roots going back decades, she barely could manage a half percentage more over Sanders.
OR became the 20th state to go for Sanders, the Independent from Vermont and the first Jewish candidate to win major party nomination contests.
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.
“Certainly Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are going to have to ask, ‘What’s the best way to stop Donald Trump from being president?'” Leahy says.
Clinton holds a commanding lead of almost 300 pledged delegates over Sanders and a dominant advantage among party officials and elected leaders known as superdelegates. This means she would need just 92 delegates to reach 2,383, the number required to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Campaign manager Jeff Weaver reiterated those concerns during a May 18 interview on CNN. Dianne Feinstein of California, want Sanders to step aside after the votes are done in mid-June, given that he very likely will be trailing Clinton in pledged and superdelegates at that time.
“I should tell you that there are lots of people out there, politicians and pundits who say Bernie Sanders should drop out”.
Sanders is also expected to take only a handful more of the 61 delegates that were awarded in Oregon.
The Democratic primary could all come down to California and that’s why Bernie Sanders is in the Bay Area.
California, where Clinton is favored, is one of a handful of states remaining on the calendar, and it’s a few weeks until it arrives. If Sanders had won New York, Pennsylvania, or both, the conversation would be different.
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“We may find evidence that people are just exhausted of this thing on the Democratic side, just the grinding nature of the primary”, Moore said.
