“There is a time for it”, he said, “and it’s not right now”. Several say recent polls are overstating the number of independents likely to vote, which has doubtless contributed to Sanders’s recent surge.
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“We can guarantee you there will be a political revolution”, Taylor said at a recent meeting with local Sanders supporters and organizers. This year’s massive spike in new-voter registrations and a widespread vote-by-mail system that kicked off a full 30 days before the primary make for even more uncertainty.
On Tuesday, Clinton is favored to win New Jersey by a huge margin, while California’s primary is too close to call as polling shows a razor thin margin.
Sanders handily defeated Clinton in West Virginia’s primary with 51 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 36 percent. After months of polls showing Clinton ahead, data released last week from the Public Policy Institute of California gave her just a slight edge over Sanders, 46 percent to 44 percent. They also point to Governor Jerry Brown’s endorsement of Clinton earlier this week, saying his progressive bona fides and sky-high approval ratings should help assuage doubt about Clinton among skeptical constituencies. Voters who have registered as Democrats or are officially unaffiliated may vote in the primary.
Sanders’ impact was also felt in a floor debate which sought to change how superdelegates align with candidates. The move came after high-level staffers clashed over whether ads for California were worth the money. The state recently enacted a $15 minimum wage, and free tuition in the University of California system was enacted in 1868 and lasted through much of the 20th century.
“This is no time for Democrats to keep fighting each other”, wrote Brown.
Though the Clinton campaign initially put fewer resources than Sanders into California, they abruptly began flooding the zone over the past week, running a robust telephone campaign and expanding TV, radio, and online advertising.
Clinton needs 70 delegates to reach the 2,383 needed to win.
The other five states voting June 7 have a total of 260 delegates up for grabs.
Sanders is mathematically eliminated from earning the nomination, and many have urged him to step aside and let the party unite behind Clinton as she gears up for a probable presidential campaign against Republican Donald Trump.
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North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota all vote that day as well. “So if Bill Taylor and the Sanders campaign are working together, which is our understanding, that’s fine”.
