Bernie Sanders won Oregon’s presidential primary and battled Hillary Clinton to a neck-and-neck outcome in Kentucky on Tuesday, vowing to soldier on as Clinton sought to blunt his momentum ahead of her likely general election matchup against Republican Donald Trump. “But it seems like quite a leap, ideologically from Sanders to Trump”, Villanova Presidential Historian and Professor of Political Science David Barrett told Sputnik.
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The protracted fight for the Democratic nomination has boiled over into strife in recent days, prompting party leaders to weigh in and urge unity. She expects Clinton to do well among Latinos and senior citizens, groups that hold significant populations in Santa Barbara County.
Sanders released a statement Tuesday to say that he does not support violent behavior from his supporters, but also sharply criticized the convention process from Nevada’s Democratic party.
Clinton, who romped with more than 65 percent of the vote in Kentucky’s 2008 presidential primary election against Barack Obama, narrowly beat U.S. Sen. “If the Democratic Party is to be successful in November, it is imperative that all state parties treat our campaign supporters with fairness and the respect that they have earned”.
She also had a dominant advantage among party officials and elected leaders known as super-delegates. Sanders won OR, a state that played to his strengths. The result: Clinton should receive 55 delegates, while Sanders gets a little under 50.
“I should tell you that there are lots of people out there, politicians and pundits who say Bernie Sanders should drop out”.
Despite delegate math being against him, Sanders still maintains that he can win the nomination outright, leading some liberal commentators to accuse him of misleading his supporters and undercutting the front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Both candidates took the same amount of delegates from the state.
Sanders has remained in the race despite almost insurmountable odds of reaching the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
The state party disputed the Sanders campaign’s interpretation of the events.
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.
Sanders has said he condemns violence and harassment but leveled some of the same complaints his supporters did. “You have to listen to her whole statement”, he said.
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Sanders drew a loud response from supporters Tuesday when he blasted the entire Democratic Party process, saying, “I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, open the doors; let the people in!” “Too much is at stake in our country to turn the White House over to Hillary Clinton and her corrupt cronies”.
