Although he realizes it is almost impossible to catch Clinton in the number of delegates overall, Sanders hopes to enter the convention riding a wave of victories.
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During the rally, Trump was interrupted repeatedly by protesters, who shouted, held up banners and resisted removal by security officers.
Trump amplified that line of attack on Monday, posting online a video that features a photo of the former president with a cigar in his mouth and audio clips of women who have accused him of sexual assault. Nationally, Trump has been rising in polls to pull roughly even with Clinton.
The former president also mocked Trump for his economic proposals. Trump’s 2006 comments, she said, amounted to rooting for “people to get thrown out on the street”.
Trump shot back in a statement, saying he’s “made a lot of money in down markets”.
Trump did not directly respond to Warren’s comments on Tuesday, but he called her a “total failure” as a US senator during the rally. “And if we march out with the Democratic nomination, Donald Trump is toast”. Her campaign hosted related events in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada, which will all be battlegrounds in November’s general election.
“How could Trump possibly champion the collapse of the housing market and our economy?”
Bernie Sanders blasted Hillary Clinton for her refusal to debate him two weeks before the California Democratic primary. He added it’s too soon for Clinton to claim victory, despite her daunting delegate lead.
A loss to Sanders in California, though not critical to Hillary Clinton’s near-certain nomination, would nevertheless deal her a blow heading into the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.
Clinton on Monday turned down an invitation by Fox News to debate Sanders in California despite having agreed previously to a May debate.
Such data points to the absolute necessity for Democrats that Sanders deliver a full and unequivocal vote of support for Clinton.
“Democracy, and respect for the voters of California, would suggest that there should be a vigorous debate in which the voters may determine whose ideas they support”, Sanders said.
The final weeks of the primary, which culminates June 7 when voters in big states including California and New Jersey head to the polls, are being dominated by rising tension between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and their supporters.
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For starters, Sanders is now waging open political warfare with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz over a longstanding belief that the party establishment stacked the deck in the primary for Clinton. Kentucky’s secretary of state, Alison Grimes, said in a statement that the state will recanvas the results at all 120 county boards of election.
