It was great to bring up the obvious rift in the party and Hillary Clinton’s inability to make inroads with the passionate followers of Sanders’ socialist movement.
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Jane Sanders’ answer is a very clear sign that the Bernie Sanders campaign is systematically ending the fight for the nomination. Sen.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is now almost 200 workers lighter as the race towards the Democratic nomination begins to draw to a close. “So what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff”. Though Sanders galvanized young progressives (who he said in his speech were smarter than political experts thought), he was never really able to win black votes in the South or Hispanics. However, when counting the superdelegates, Clinton holds a big lead with more than 500 to Sanders’ 39.
“Our campaign has now completed 80 percent of the primaries and caucuses”, Briggs said. On Tuesday, Sanders lost in four eastern state primaries to Clinton.
Clinton and Trump were favored Tuesday as voters cast ballots in party primaries in Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Delaware.
Meanwhile, Clinton is shifting her focus to a potential general election battle with the republican frontrunner, “The other day Mr. Trump accused me of playing the quote, woman card”. “I’m going to be taking a lot of things Bernie said”, Trump said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
Neither candidate can claim enough delegates to get the nomination, so they’re trying to stop Trump from getting them. Sanders, a Vermont senator, has vowed to continue campaigning until the last primaries on June 7, but he’s been shedding staff in states that already have voted and turning more toward influencing the party platform.
At a Hartford rally with more than 1,800 people, Sanders drew distinctions with Clinton on the minimum wage, his call for a carbon tax to address climate change, fracking and more.
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He even cited the recent move by air conditioning giant, Carrier, to move more than 2,000 jobs from IN to Mexico.
