Yet other top Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, have so far refused to call on Sanders to quit in June, anxious that a heavy hand could backfire with the Vermont senator’s legions of supporters.
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Professor Sanders told Sputnik that despite this rhetoric, the senator will likely leave the campaign before the convention, just as Clinton did in 2008 when she started campaigning for President Barack Obama after the final primary votes were counted.
Sanders has vowed to take his fight to the convention, and has challenged the legitimacy of Clinton’s overwhelming support from “superdelegates”, party insiders and officials free to support whichever candidate they want. “I’ve never had anything like this happen”.
Nevada Democratic party chair Roberta Lange told the convention delegates when pressed about the rule change: the “ruling by the Chair is not debatable; we can not be challenged and I move that … and I announce that the rules have been passed by the body”.
Sanders running as an Independent against Trump and Clinton would largely benefit Trump. “It was frightening. I was on the stage and people were six feet away from me”. I know it’s hard. Still, she has struggled shake Sanders, most recently losing to him Tuesday in Oregon’s primary.
An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday showed the Republican presumptive nominee was as powerful as the Democratic front-runner in his own party, both enjoying an 87-percent support.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to the battleground state of OH, where the vice-president delivered remarks on the economy, Biden said “there’s no fundamental split in the Democratic party”.
“We may find evidence that people are just exhausted of this thing on the Democratic side, just the grinding nature of the primary”, Moore said. Tim Kaine of Virginia told CNN’s Manu Raju. “That deflection of responsibility is not leadership”.
But Tuesday’s elections followed a divisive weekend state party convention in Nevada in which supporters of Sanders were accused of tossing chairs and making death threats against the Nevada party chairwoman at the event in Las Vegas.
In another incident in Nevada, amidst boos from angered Sanders supporters, California Sen. “And how she’s been throwing shade on the Sanders campaign since the beginning”.
White House press secretary John Earnest on Wednesday warned against reading too much into the tensions and seemed to dismiss Feinstein’s concerns. Barack Obama of IL.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has stated clearly that he is in the party’s primary race for the long haul.
