Clinton holds a lead in polls in NY, her home state and the next up on the primary calendar on April 19.
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“My response is if you want to question my qualifications, then maybe the American people might wonder about your qualifications, Madame Secretary”, he said.
Clinton’s campaign had been aggressively lowering expectations in Wisconsin.
“Our team has more wins than Bernie’s, more delegates, and over two million more votes”.
Early returns showed the Vermont leading with 54 percent, with Clinton capturing 46 percent of the vote among primary voters.Sanders bought more political ads than any other presidential candidate ahead of Tuesday’s primary, with 5,774, USA Today reported. “But I’m going to trust the voters of NY who know me and have voted for me three times“. Sanders said. “No, I don’t”. Despite the headline coverage, Sanders is only 250 delegates or so behind Clinton when excluding the superdelegates from the count.
Armed with a blistering tabloid cover, Hillary Clinton is pitting Bernie Sanders against the parents of children murdered in Sandy Hook, part of an effort to punch her way into the critical NY primary.
“The senator has a well-deserved D- rating from the NRA while Secretary Clinton takes campaign cash from NRA lobbyists”, he said.
“I know a little bit about NY”, the Brooklyn native said.
Still, more than half of yesterday’s voters told pollsters Clinton is the candidate best-suited to beat Trump in a general election.
Citing her grandfather, who worked in the Scranton lace mills for 50 years, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged unwavering support to unions Wednesday in Philadelphia, saying a “strong and vibrant labor movement” is essential to her vision of America.
In a discussion of an interview with Sanders that appeared in the New York Daily News, Clinton was asked if “Bernie Sanders is qualified and ready to be president of the United States”. If Sanders can win a big share of delegates in NY and the five northeastern contests that follow, his aides believe they can make even larger gains in May and June contests in OR and California.
“Look, he’s raised a lot of important issues that the Democratic Party agrees with, income inequality first and foremost”, she said.
But that hasn’t deterred Sanders from feeling optimistic about his chances of claiming victories in NY and states in the West. So even though Sanders had a smashing win in Wisconsin, he won only six more delegates than Clinton did.
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National front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are favored to win in Pennsylvania later this month, but both have just single-digit leads in the Keystone State, a new poll finds.
