Mr. Trump has pointed to the mandatory financial-disclosure form that all presidential candidates file with the Federal Election Commission as a better source for measuring his net worth. Instead, she unveiled a new line of attack against Republican nominee-in-waiting Donald Trump, hammering him on his past statements over the housing crisis and suggesting that he paid nothing in taxes. More are looking at Clinton’s inability to get the flashing lights going like her husband, and thinking: Maybe we’re not dead here. Sanders handily won the Democratic caucuses in March.
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Both these periods prominently featured allegations against her husband, Bill ClintonBill ClintonMorris: Hillary’s women problem Trump’s lawyer: Donald once saw Bill Clinton as a “friend” Jake Tapper rips Trump’s “shameful” conspiracy remarks MORE, in the mainstream news.
Meanwhile in Albuquerque in the southwestern state of New Mexico, an anti-Trump protest outside his rally at a convention center turned chaotic when protesters began overturning barricades and hurling rocks.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses a campaign rally at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium on May 24, 2016 in Riverside, California. Bernie Sanders outperformed Clinton in the March 26 Democratic caucuses.
Republicans in Washington were to allocate all 44 delegates to this summer’s national convention in Cleveland based on the primary results.
When superdelegates are included, Clinton has 2,305 delegates and Sanders has 1,539. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the GOP nomination.
The Democrats’ snubbing of the Washington primary became a national joke last Sunday as John Oliver lampooned how both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are nominated. It will, however, leave him inches short of it with a slate of contests on June 7 in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota sure to seal the deal. Ben Carson was also on the ballot because he never submitted the paperwork to have his name removed.
Sanders trails Clinton in the delegate count, and he is running out of contests in his long-shot bid to catch up. She is on track to do so in early June, even if she loses all the remaining contests. Clinton and her aides intoned – wink, wink – that it would be healthy to have a primary fight with Sanders and Martin O’Malley.
But Clinton’s criticism has been aimed not at Trump’s business savvy, but rather at the real estate mogul’s apparent eagerness for the real estate market to crash – a collapse that resulted in millions of Americans losing their homes and even more without a job. But Sanders supporters weren’t done yet; they also sent death threats to party officials. The Vermont senator faces a virtually impossible deficit in his battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said of Trump in a speech Tuesday night.
Roughly 100 protesters broke through a barricade outside of the building shortly after the GOP presidential front-runner took to the stage.
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By contrast, Trump supporters have been calling Washington voters and urging them cast ballots for the former reality TV star, said state Sen. “Us all voting Cruz sends a message that we’re unhappy with the current direction of the Trump campaign”.
