Meanwhile, the Sanders’ campaign wants to override the will of the voters and allow the superdelegates to decide the victor at the Democratic convention. “A small, insecure moneygrubber who doesn’t care who gets hurt”.
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Hillary Clinton’s grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination is beyond debate – and so she’s done debating Bernie Sanders.
After all, how would Clinton benefit from another debate with Sanders? But some liberal Democrats are beginning to worry that as Mr. Sanders continues his quest for the nomination, his chance to build a lasting legacy may be slipping away. “Sanders doing much, much better than Secretary Clinton against Donald Trump, it is clear that millions of Americans have growing doubts about the Clinton campaign”. In recent days, Sanders has toned down his rhetoric against Clinton, only offering strong criticism of the former secretary of State for backing out of a debate.
Everybody’s talking about the math. “There was rowdyism. There was booing, I think inappropriately by the way”, he said.
Those numbers aren’t lost on Trump. The ad urged voters to choose a “new direction” for the Democratic Party.
Montana Sen. Jon Tester has joined the list of Democratic leaders who will not be endorsing a presidential candidate. “The problem is he is feeding the anger of some of his constituents, and to such a level that it poses a risk to the viability of a Democratic victory”.
With 126 pledged delegates at stake, New Jersey offers Clinton more than what she needs to clinch – even if she were to lose the state.
Thus far, Mr. Sanders has offered little support for a broader progressive movement, beyond using his email list to solicit money for a handful of congressional candidates, including Washington State’s Pramila Jayapal, New York’s Zephyr Teachout and Nevada’s Lucy Flores. The argument in the Democratic Party is not whether to raise the minimum wage, it’s to raise it to $15 or $12.
Newt Gingrich, still hoping to get on Trump’s good side, called Mitt Romney’s drive to find a third-party candidate “pathetic”.
“The media takes words out of context. the context of that is democracy is messy”.
“And somebody may come along promising that he can make the economy great without telling you what he would do other than slash taxes”, Clinton told the Commerce crowd. “Her future rides on this vote”.
And Mr. Sanders himself does not have a reputation for leadership; in Congress, he is seen as more of a lone wolf, known more for introducing symbolic legislation than for methodically building constituencies.
One of the members of the committee Sanders has named is a vocal, fiery Obama critic, Cornel West.
“We aren’t looking anywhere in particular – we are simply making sure everything was counted and it was all added up correctly”, a Sanders adviser says, noting that “how a couple transposed numbers can change the count”. “You know why they won’t appear on ABC?”
Second, by Sanders getting some of what he wants from the Democratic party, Sanders shows his supporters that his candidacy has delivered for them. “In the real world”, said Agre, 61. “That’s all. There will be debate and there will be votes”, he said. The former Speaker added, “I don’t know what happened to Mitt, but it is weird; it is freakish….” “The biggest one of all”. Bernie Sanders, will preside over rallies in Anaheim, Riverside and San Bernardino. “Right now, Hillary Clinton is the only thing standing between our country that I love and a train wreck”. Alicia Reece and Luis Gutierrez are both Democratic politicians and will also serve as Clinton envoys.
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David Siders of The Sacramento Bee contributed to this article.
