Mrs. Clinton hopes to use the comment as part of a broader strategy to paint Mr. Trump as both fully unfit to be president while also a serious danger to the nation.
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Trump, who shook the last of his rivals weeks before Clinton locked up her nomination, has made the GOP’s uphill path to the White House more treacherous by failing to seize on that head start in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
We have watched Hillary battle for this position for a long time and we know how important it is to her but it is important to us as well.
Before polls closed in Washington, where Clinton won with almost 80 percent of the vote, Sanders vowed again to do all he can to prevent Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, from reaching the White House – but he declined to endorse Clinton. “Do we really think Donald Trump is going to do better?”
But Sanders wants to have a greater say in reforming the party platform, by opening primaries to independent voters and curbing the role of bigwig “superdelegates”.
Clinton already has turned her attention on the campaign trail to the race with Trump, rejecting the NY businessman’s renewed calls for a ban of the entry of foreign-born Muslims into the United States after the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an American man who claimed allegiance with Islamic State militants.
“Dependent on how Secretary Clinton comes down on many of these major issues will determine how closely we can work with her”, he said on CBS.
Not including the roughly 200,000 votes to be cast in D.C. on Tuesday, the cumulative popular vote total stands at 15.79 million for Clinton to 12.02 million for Sanders.
With 29 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was declared the victor by the Associated Press shortly after 8:45 pm EST, leading Sanders 78.8 percent to 21 percent.
Mrs Clinton has also secured the endorsement of Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA, the leader of the party’s left wing, who remained neutral in the primary race until it was clear Mrs Clinton would be the nominee.
Sanders has said he will continue to push for a liberal agenda heading into the Democratic National Convention in July – when Clinton’s nomination is expected to become official – though he has hinted he does not want his presence to hurt the Democrats’ chances of keeping the White House.
“We are gonna take our campaign to the convention with the full understanding that we are very good in arithmetic”.
These states, in addition to the District of Columbia, have voted for the Democratic nominee in every election since 1992: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin.
Sanders is scheduled to address supporters live via webcast late Thursday.
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The more meaningful Democratic activity in Washington on Tuesday will be the private meeting between Clinton and Sanders.
