Bernie Sanders had a fair bit of advice to give to Hillary Clinton when he appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday with George Stephanopoulos, including telling her what to do if she wants to actually win the Democratic nomination by a large vote. Sanders would only be able to pull this off by persuading a significant number of Clinton superdelegates to switch to his camp. For the first time ever, Trump edged ahead of Clinton – it’s just the slightest lead, but it shows the numbers are shifting.
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“We need a campaign, an election, coming up which does not have two candidates who are really very, very strongly disliked”, Sanders told ABC News Sunday. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally in Piscataway, New Jersey, May 8, 2016.
As for choosing her a running mate, Clinton said she would consider a range of options including those who aren’t elected officials, including “successful business people”.
“Do I think she is the kind of chair that the Democratic Party needs?” Yet if there is anything at all we can say about this year’s election season, it’s that common sense and delegate math has been overshadowed by the passion and anger of the American electorate. What others see as a selfish candidate putting himself above the Democratic Party, Bernie sees as a genuine and principled insurgency to the Democratic machine. These are fundamental seats and positions that will shape our nation in the years to come, and with a Trump presidency, with Trump nominated judges of the similar mindset – a Sanders political revolution would fizzle out.
About 60 per cent of registered voters have negative impressions of both Clinton and Trump, the poll finds. And I think most of Sen.
Mrs. Clinton leads the NY businessman, 46% to 43%, in a test matchup between the two likely nominees, the poll finds.
Some polling firms show one candidate leading and the other show the other one.
But Mr Sanders has ignored growing Democratic calls to step aside and repeated his vow to stay in the race until the party’s July 25-28 nominating convention in Philadelphia despite Mrs Clinton’s almost insurmountable lead in pledged convention delegates who will choose the nominee. Their rush to back Mrs Clinton even before votes had been cast amounted to “an anointment process”, Mr Sanders said. “I don’t want to see the American people voting for the lesser of two evils”.
“Our vision of social justice, of economic justice, of racial justice and of environmental justice, our vision is the future of this country and I hope that the leadership of the Democratic Party understands it must be the vision of the Democratic Party”.
Trump also accused Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of being hypocritical for having armed Secret Service agents around them while calling for stricter gun control measures, and called on the Clintons to “let their bodyguards immediately disarm”.
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Even if the Vermont senator persuades the Democratic Party to embrace more open primaries in its platform at the party’s national convention in July, individual states would have to enact the changes.
