Clinton won Kentucky by just 1,924 votes, according to the unofficial totals posted on the secretary of state’s elections page.
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Despite being denounced by some for previous comments about Mexican immigrants, supporters outside the Albuquerque Convention Center say they appreciate Trump’s sediments about securing the border and stemming the flow of people who are crossing illegally.
Sanders said Clinton’s decision to pass on a California debate was an insult to voters in the nation’s largest state, which has rarely proven competitive in a Democratic primary. Sander, last week, accepted an invitation of debate by Fox News before the California primary on June 7.
The billionaire businessman’s victory Tuesday pulls him within 44 delegates of the number needed to become the Republican nominee.
Clinton’s remarks followed her campaign’s release of a video on Tuesday featuring an audio clip of Trump, in 2006, saying he “sort of” hoped for a housing bubble burst because “people like me would go in and buy”.
The last re-canvass conducted in the state was of the 2015 Republican gubernatorial primary, which James Comer requested after losing to then-candidate Matt Bevin by 83 votes. Many correctly predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the Democratic Party’s nomination (she’s 85 delegates away), though the level of divisions between the Clinton and Sanders camps wasn’t projected to get this intense or fractured. The Associated Press had not called the race, despite Clinton’s slight lead, in the event that Sanders might ask to recanvass the vote.
She said Sanders trails Clinton by just 2,000 votes in Kentucky.
“It would be so hard”, said Barbara Smith, 64, who came to Anaheim Tuesday from the Bay Area town of Richmond to express her support for Sanders.
The Clinton campaign said Tuesday it have no plans to contest the recanvass.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has requested a recount of the Kentucky primary.
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On a campaign stop in California on Tuesday, Mr. Sanders took aim at Disney for its low wages and Mr. Iger’s high executive pay. Some Sanders supporters have argued the state’s superdelegates should back Sanders instead, following his landslide caucus win. It’s a lead built while garnering 56% of the vote over 48 contests and is far greater than the lead Barack Obama held over Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates in 2008.
