He told a Los Angeles news conference Saturday he will go after Clinton’s superdelegates, hoping to woo enough to swing the nomination his way, CNN reported. Of those, 1,769 are pledged and 544 are superdelegates.
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Meanwhile, Clinton has 543 superdelegates, making her just 71 delegates shy of the 2,383 delegate threshold for securing the nomination.
Clinton needs only 70 more delegates to reach the clinching number of 2,383.
In a “normal” election cycle, that would be the end of it. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, pose for a photo before debating at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
Hundreds of demonstrators insulted Trump supporters as they tried to leave the event in San Jose. The Democratic Party’s convention is scheduled in July in Philadelphia where the victor of the primary season would be formally nominated as the presidential candidate for the November general elections.
But her lead is narrower without the superdelegates, who can support whomever they choose and now overwhelmingly back Clinton. “There will be a contested convention”.
Mr Sanders has 1545 delegates.
Bernie has been very critical of the media for “lumping together” the pledged delegates with the superdelages. Clinton also holds a commanding lead in pledged delegates – whose votes are linked to the results of state primaries or caucuses – headed into Tuesday’s pivotal California primary. That would be six for Sanders, four for Clinton. “In other words, the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention”, he said.
“We understand that we have a steep climb”. There is no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side even if you vehemently disagree because I believe if you have got the better argument, you do not need to do that.
“I think the progressives understand that and they’ve taken tremendous advantage of that”, Carson said. The populism that we see out there, which is anti-establishment, is not going to work for a figure who is a core figure of the establishment.
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The Virgin Islands is one of five US territories that casts votes in primaries and caucuses to decide the nominee, even though those residents aren’t eligible to vote in November. Beyond that, Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver said they are considering whether Sanders might appear at more rallies around the country after the primaries and speak in Chicago at a gathering of Sanders’ activists on June 17-19. But it would represent a call for change from the party’s grassroots in a state that gave Sanders a resounding victory over Hillary Clinton in its April 5 primary.
