Appearing on Meet The Press, Sanders claimed he has three paths to victory and that he would like to head to Philadelphia with more pledged delegates than rival Hillary Clinton but admitted he needed some of the superdelegates pledged to her to put him over the top.
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Mr Sanders cautioned that to beat the bombastic Republican nominee, the Democratic party must defend working families by choosing a non-traditional candidate who would stand up to “Wall Street” and the “greed of corporate America”.
The Vermont senator’s vice-presidential prerequisites look like a list of his campaign’s top talking points.
The report provided new ammunition to Clinton’s critics to attack her for not being honest and trustworthy at a time when she is almost clinching the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Malloy is co-chairman of the platform committee, and Frank is head of the rules committee. “And I don’t mean to be malicious, but that is just the damn truth”, Sanders warned of Trump. I have known Tim Kaine for years. If she loses, how much of an issue do you think that really would be? Former Sec. of State Clinton is going to lock up the nomination with a big win in New Jersey.
“I think what it is, is that there’s a tension between the left most wing and the right most wing (of the Party)”, said Mario Brown. “We’re off in speculation world: so number one is that there will be an indictment, which I do not know, and number two, that if there was, Joe would be brought in”, he said.
The final major set of primary contests, headlined by California, is coming up June 7.
Trump’s announcement was a let-down to those who wanted to see the blustery Republican take on the self-proclaimed democratic socialist – two candidates considered outsiders who draw thousands to their rallies.
On Friday, you warned Secretary Clinton that if she ends up the nominee that her running mate essentially better not be a conservative or moderate type of Democrat if she wants to win over your supporters and certainly have your enthusiastic support.
“That was a very politically – a political type of answer that says you’re not answering the question”, Todd replied.
“I think we’ll get very high ratings”.
Though Clinton tried to keep distance from Obama at the early months of her campaign, she shifted the position as the challenge from Sanders became more serious.
In a separate interview on “Face The Nation” on Sunday, Sanders reiterated his concerns over the Democratic primary process.
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“But for me right now, I continue to focus on how we can rebuild a disappearing middle class, deal with poverty, guarantee health care to all of our people as a right”, he added.
