Sanders, his advisers said, has been buoyed by a stream of polls showing him beating Trump by larger margins than Clinton in some battleground states, and by his belief that an upset victory in California could have a psychological impact on convention delegates who already have doubts about Clinton.
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“We just won Kentucky!”. The 42nd president will be in the area for a private fundraiser, said Francine Busby, head of the county Democratic Party.
The Democratic primary – which has stretched longer than most anticipated – hits a slow period until June 7, when the next contests will be held, including in the delegate-heavy states of California and New Jersey.
Mr Sanders’s continued presence in the race is prompting concerns among Clinton allies that he will damage her ability to take on Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, in the general election.
The two candidates will likely split the 55 delegates up for grabs in Kentucky, which Sanders hailed as a victory when he took to the stage during a campaign speech in Carson, California moments after the results came in. Clinton has been more workmanlike in piling up delegates, even if her supporters note that she generated enough energy to swamp Sanders in major states like NY.
Trump, who locked up his party’s nomination after the rest of his rivals dropped out in early May, has begun to organize his campaign for the November 8 election. And then they’ll have to do a different sort of pivot, from election-year campaign to ongoing movement. “I’m confident that Bernie will be supportive if Hillary wins, which the numbers indicate will happen”, he said at a press event in Columbus, Ohio.
“Bernie Sanders’ campaign was not organized”, the party said in a statement, noting that almost 500 of his seats at the convention were vacant because his supporters had failed to show up.
Mrs Clinton only narrowly won Kentucky. Others applied chalk graffiti to a party building. “She has been the divider and not really provided leadership that the Democratic Party needs”, Weaver added.
Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, in a series of television interviews, accused Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, of bias against Sanders from the beginning and “throwing shade” on his campaign.
“It worries me a great deal”, Feinstein told CNN’s Manu Raju.
Death threats, calls to resign and chaos. Sander’s first appearance was in March when he drew a crowd of over 10,000 to a rally at the waterfront convention center, where he hammered the staples of his campaign, including getting big money out of politics, fighting climate change, making sure everyone has healthcare, and making college affordable or free.
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Sanders’ statement, issued Tuesday, condemned “any and all forms of violence, including the personal harassment of individuals”. He argued Lange did not allow a headcount on a disputed rules change and 64 delegates to Nevada’s convention were not given a hearing before being ruled ineligible. “At that convention, the Democratic leadership used its power to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking place”.
