Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are spending their final weekend in California, before the state’s big primary Tuesday, rallying voters over immigration issues and warning the state’s diverse electorate about the perils of electing Republican Donald Trump.
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Clinton only needs 256 pledged delegates to clinch the nomination, meaning the superdelegates would not really factor in, reports MSNBC.
Clinton now has 2,312 total delegates to Sanders’ 1,545, with 2,383 needed to win, according to The New York Times.
A self-made millionaire, triathlete and former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who climbed Mount Everest in 2005, Johnson, 63, secured the party’s nomination at its convention last week. 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.
Sanders will face an uphill battle trying win over those super delegates.
Clinton has begun forcefully attacking Trump on national security and his overall temperament for the White House and has largely looked past Sanders, hitting hard at the GOP real estate mogul. “So I will let the lawsuits go on”, Clinton said.
Trump called Clinton a “weak person” and said that she should be in jail for her email scandal. “Who would be so stupid to do what she did with her emails?” the presumptive GOP nominee said.
“After Tuesday, I’m going to do everything I can to reach out to try to unify the Democratic Party, and I expect Senator Sanders to do the same”.
Who would’ve thought that in June it would be Trump on his way to a nomination coronation and Clinton being awaken by 3 A.M. phone calls about the Sanders insurgency?
Trump responded by saying she lied about his positions and by ripping her record as secretary of state, which he says was marred her handling of government emails and the death of a USA ambassador in Libya.
She thinks likely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will motivate Democrats to vote, regardless of who their nominee will be.
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, some 46 percent of likely voters said they supported Clinton, while 35 percent said they supported Trump, and another 19 percent said they would not support either.
Hillary Clinton’s savage takedown of Donald Trump in her recent foreign policy speech has her supporters fired up.
The AFL-CIO, the labor federation representing 12.5 million workers, has also withheld an endorsement but could send a powerful message to union members by backing Clinton.
“We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters; that’s not what our democracy’s about”, Obama said.
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But Sanders has been narrowing the gap.
