She is expected to clinch the nomination after contests in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend and California, New Jersey and four other states on Tuesday.
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“Hillary Clinton is a weak person”.
“We have to, starting with the California primary on Tuesday, send an unmistakable message we are stronger together”, Clinton said. “I’m not here to tell you that tomorrow we’re going to flip 300 superdelegates”. Send them in today; send them in tomorrow.
Several rally attendees fainted and were taken away on gurneys.
“Once the numbers come in, I think we can begin a serious discussion among ourselves about what the right path for us is”, said Tad Devine, Sanders’ senior adviser. Clinton is already on the cusp of securing enough delegates to defeat Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination and she is certain to surpass the threshold on Jun 7.
Recent tracking polls showed Clinton having a 2 to 10 percentage point lead over Sanders in California. She did not mention Sanders in upbeat remarks to a women-themed rally here that included many Hollywood figures.
“You know what they are?”
“We understand that we have a steep climb”, Sanders said.
“The voters should consider that, for the sake of his party, and to serve his own ambition, my opponent is willing to help a man – who picks needless fights nearly compulsively, and who doesn’t mind what damage he does so long as he wins – become the commander-in-chief of America’s armed forces, with his finger on the nuclear trigger”.
She told supporters Friday that “if all goes well, I will have the great honor as of Tuesday to be the Democratic nominee for president”. Yet few expect Sanders to quickly follow the example set by Clinton, who campaigned extensively for Obama after suspending the roll call vote at the 2008 convention and later, became his secretary of state. If he doesn’t, she said she won’t vote for Clinton in a general election.
There is a growing sentiment that a win in California for Sanders – especially one by a healthy margin – could be a race-changing moment.
Hundreds of demonstrators insulted Trump supporters as they tried to leave the event in San Jose.
“And you brought in waterboarding”, the CNN host said with a hint of disgust.
Polls show Sanders has chipped away at Clinton’s lead in the state, where Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have built a vast network of supporters, including increasingly powerful Hispanic voters.
Ryan said he would start introducing a series of policy proposals next week to “address the American people’s top priorities”. “I’m like an archaeological dig”, she joked.
Clinton continued her attacks on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who she assailed in a foreign policy speech Thursday. None dwelled on Sanders and the challenge he still poses for Clinton.
“Over the past months, I have hear the word “likability” used so often”, Field exclaimed. John McCain (R-Ariz.) a “loser” for being a prisoner of war and Trump’s claim that attending a military high school was equivalent to being “in the military in the true sense” – have also rubbed them the wrong way.
And she won, making history as the first wife of a president to run for (and win) public office.
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That latter point means that even candidates running against Republicans in “safe Republican” districts, can use this approach to constructive effect in states that are or might be in play at the presidential level.
