Bucking the trend, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard resigned her post as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to support Sanders. An analysis by MSNBC found that “he ended up taking away a tidy 57 percent of the pledged delegates up for grabs that day”.
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Cenk asked, “If you win, is Hillary Clinton liberal enough to be in your cabinet?” It’s math that’s forced Sanders to defend his path to victory amid whispers he should drop out. For Sanders, who after cutting Clinton’s lead by 17 delegates on Tuesday still trails by 293, not only is winning Washington essential, he needs to win by as large a margin as possible. “It is not true”, Sanders told the crowd at Safeco Field.
His online fundraising acts like an ATM – he has collected more than $140 million from 2 million donors, raising $94 million in increments of $200 or less. This is simultaneously why Sanders won’t stop competing against Clinton one second before he’s required to and why the Democratic Party apparatus would like him to stop competing with her altogether. He has demanded she release the transcripts of her private speeches before Wall Street banks, adding with sarcasm that they must have been “written in Shakespearean prose” to merit the $225,000 paydays she received for making them.
Mason Trinca/AP Sen. Bernie Sanders remains confident he’ll win the nomination.
Clinton has taken a strong lead in the delegate race, having won 1,223 pledged delegates so far in primaries and caucuses, according to The Associated Press’ count. Including superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders free to support any candidate, Clinton’s lead is 1,690-946. Clinton has support from 467 superdelegates and Sanders is backed by a comparatively measly 26.
“He can’t win, but he’s also the Energizer bunny”.
“Bernie’s very humane approach to politics really resonates with what Seattleites believe in”, said Basilia Brownwell, 64, a retired public school teacher who has been hosting phone banks and events to get supporters to caucus.
Sanders isn’t going anywhere, and since he’s still in the race, he’s going to keep trying to win states.
“The real problem is the math”, said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, while noting Sanders does better in caucuses and is helped by “the fact that his supporters are more energized”.
In 2008, when Barack Obama focused on caucuses as a means to beat Clinton, caucus turnout reached all-time highs.
“It’s an incredible opportunity to get folks motivated and ready for the big election”, he said.
Some still hope that a victory here could vault Sanders back into close contention for the nomination, despite his struggle to gain ground on front-runner Hillary Clinton. Or, if they support Clinton in 2016, maybe they won’t in 2020.
On the other hand, we can observe Hillary’s long-time favor among affluent Democrats and Hispanics – both who are concentrated up and down the coast and throughout southern and central California. No independent polls have recently been conducted in any of the states.
Neither Clinton nor Sanders were traveling to Alaska to campaign, but on Thursday, Jane Sanders arrived in Anchorage to help pitch her husband’s platform to voters. In all of these states, Sanders has key endorsements that go beyond his already large base among young voters.
“We’re going into a period of the process where we feel we can win”.
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Her campaign sees the April 19 contest in NY as an important one, not just because of the rich delegate prize but because losing to Sanders in a state she represented in the Senate would be a psychological blow.
