Shortly afterwards, Mrs Clinton tweeted: “We just won Kentucky!”.
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Regarding the proposed debate, Weaver said in his statement: “More than half way through the month of May, we hope Secretary Clinton will soon make good on her campaign’s commitment and agree to a time and pace for a debate”.
Sanders supporters were angered when Nevada state party officials chose to end their convention and block efforts to award the U.S. senator from Vermont more delegates than he initially won in the February caucus. Obviously not. But it’s hard to see how helping elect a President Trump, who even now has his hand out to his fellow billionaires, would further the interests of Sanders supporters – and that’s essentially the choice ahead.
There are still a few more state primaries and caucuses being held before the majority party conventions in July, which gives each of the candidates more opportunities to win more delegates.
Last weekend’s angry Democratic state convention in Nevada brought tensions within the Democratic Party to the surface. Supporters argued that party leadership had rigged the results of the convention in favor of Clinton.
Instead, the most meaningful impact will likely be on the morale of Sanders supporters as he faces a virtually impossible path to winning the nomination. It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change – people who are willing to take on Wall Street, corporate greed and a fossil fuel industry which is destroying this planet. “Or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big-money campaign contributions and be a party with limited participation and limited energy”. The question, she said, is will Sanders “go all-in to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump?”.
With more than 1,000 delegates, businessman Donald Trump is the presumed Republican candidate as he looks to officially clinch the nomination, which requires 1,237 delegates. On Tuesday, he notched up another impressive in the liberal state of OR (54.5-45.5) while narrowly losing Kentucky by only a few thousand votes to Clinton (46.8-46.3). Texas senator Ted Cruz and OH governor John Kasich both got about 16% of the vote. So far, Clinton has remained non-committal. In Oregon, Mr Sanders will receive at least 28 delegates and Mrs Clinton will get at least 24 of the 61 delegates at stake. Clinton leads Sanders in the popular vote by over 3 million votes.
The tenor of the Sanders’ statement disturbed Democratic leaders.
Despite having an nearly unassailable lead in the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination, and with the primary battle heading towards the final contests next month, Clinton will need Sanders supporters on her side in the general election.
About 50 bills are introduced across the country each year to change the process, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and most don’t go anywhere – only one in ten bills affecting primary voting typically end up becoming law.
Mrs Clinton campaigned in Kentucky on Sunday and Monday in an effort to halt Mr Sanders’ momentum after his recent victories in IN and West Virginia.
Sanders’ street-fighting instincts have been encouraged by his like-minded campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, who has been blistering against the Clinton camp and the party establishment.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign said that they have told Fox News that they will do another debate in advance of the June 7 California primary if an agreement can be made with Hillary Clinton’s campaign on debate moderators, format and other details.
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When pledged delegates and superdelegates are combined, Clinton is now about 96 percent of the way toward securing the Democratic nomination.
