“If the Democratic leadership wants a campaign that will not only retain the White House but regain the Senate and win governors’ chairs all across this country, we are that campaign”, he said. Voters in California, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota will also hold their primaries tomorrow.
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She is all but assured of locking in her party’s nomination, a monumental step towards fulfilling a dream of returning to the White House as commander in chief, 16 years after serving as first lady to president Bill Clinton.
President Obama did that in 2008 when he and Clinton fought their way through the primaries. Pundits have assumed that a Clinton victory in New Jersey would be enough to announce her as the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate – when taking into account superdelegates. Her total includes at least 548 party elites, known as superdelegates, who have helped her build a almost insurmountable lead over Vermont U.S. Sen.
Two weeks before the primary, Sanders criticized a rescue deal negotiated by U.S. House leaders and the Obama administration as having colonial overtones.
His comments on sexism come the day before the primary in California, which is crucial for Mr Sanders to gain more delegates and to stop Ms Clinton from securing the party nomination.
But Hillary has continued to edge out Sanders, particularly among older voters with longer ties to the Democratic party.
The Democratic presidential front-runner aims to seal the contest this week as six states are scheduled to conduct this primary on Tuesday including California, which offers the biggest prize of 475 pledged delegates. More than half would rather see a Sanders independent run than have him support Clinton in the general election. Puerto Ricans frustrated by island’s economic crisis are voting in the US territory’s Democratic presidential primary, as front-runner Hillary Clinton draws closer to securing the number of delegates needed to win her party’s nomination. And, hey, superdelegates don’t literally, really, and truly vote until the actual convention so Sanders has from now until July 25th to persuade superdelegates to jump to him from Clinton. “I will work to ensure that concerns about the oversight board are addressed”, she said in a statement.
“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those super delegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump”, he said.
Last month, 41 per cent of Sanders’ supporters said they would vote for the former secretary of state if she runs against Trump in the November 8 general election.
The development comes as Clinton’s rival for the presidential nomination, Sen.
Hillary Clinton’s polls have shown her consistently ahead of her primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), from the earliest stages of the 2016 race.
“We are the only state or USA territory where she got 100 percent of the delegates”, he said, citing in part the large voter turnout.
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The poll results showed 46 percent of likely voters supporting Mrs Clinton, 35 percent supporting Mr Trump and another 19 percent saying they would not support either.
