Earlier this month, her husband, former president Bill Clinton, campaigned for his wife in the Virgin Islands while Mr Sanders opted to focus more on neighbouring Puerto Rico, which has 60 delegates at stake in a primary on Sunday. “Democratic superdelegates-chosen by the party establishment and overwhelmingly backing Mrs. Clinton, 543-44-would seriously question whether they should continue to stand behind her candidacy”.
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“I will say this, Hillary Clinton has got to go to jail”, Trump told supporters in San Jose.
A win in the Golden State, where polls show a tight contest, would be an embarrassment for Clinton and embolden Sanders to aggressively lobby superdelegates to switch their support to him, arguing he’s the best candidate to take on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Notice how he said “pledged delegates” there.
The pair of contests will push Hillary Clinton even closer to clinching the Democratic nomination.
The Vermont senator says Hillary Clinton will need superdelegates to put her over the top.
Both Mr Sanders and Mrs Clinton had pledged to help as Puerto Rico tries to restructure public debt the governor has said is unpayable.
Clinton now has 1,769 pledged delegates to Sanders’ 1,501, however the media has largely been including the number of superdelegates who have already announced their intention to vote for her at the convention – she has received 544 endorsements from superdelegates, which brings her total delegate count to 2,313 if none of them defect and change their mind.
The Los Angeles Times noted that support for Bernie Sanders in California appears to be deep, as he has cut into demographics once held tightly by Clinton, including Latino and Asian voters.
But her lead is narrower without the party’s so-called superdelegates, who can support whomever they choose and have so far overwhelmingly backed Clinton.
Pledged delegates are the ones usually awarded proportionally based on how the candidates perform at state primaries and caucuses.
Sanders is the candidate of Gaines’ choice because he said his rhetoric aligns with his views as a young black man from the South.
The party said Mrs Clinton won 84.2% of the vote, while Bernie Sanders earned 12.2%.
Pledged delegates emerge from primaries and caucuses, while superdelegates are party leaders – elected officials and former ones who have individually committed to a candidate.
“We look forward on Tuesday to doing very well”, Sanders said. The contestants said, ‘We were completely unprepared for being mistreated when we signed up to be on a show called “The Biggest Loser”. California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota hold their primaries on Tuesday.
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“This is not just another outlandish insulting comment from Donald Trump and it is not normal politics, this is something much, much more risky”, Clinton said.
