Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right and his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders, center, attend the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. That is, admittedly, a tough road to climb, but not an impossible one. Volunteers for Trump, Clinton and Sanders have already been out in force in Northwest Indiana, including IL U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky who went door to door for Hillary in Gary on Saturday. And according to the Sanders campaign, Bernie pulled in $25.8 million.
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Still, Sanders hoped that his message of combatting income inequality and opposing free trade agreements would break through in IN, a Rust Belt state accustomed to the vagaries of globalization and economic change That message appears to have resonated in the state, eight years after she narrowly defeated then-Sen. But he proceeded to make the argument that superdelegates from states he won should back him.
On CBS, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has endorsed Cruz even though he has said he loathes the Texas senator, said Trump’s foreign policy amounts to “isolationism”.
Watch the above portion of the press conference from CSPAN. In any event, an indictment looks like the best chance Sanders has given his current numbers.
“Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she would get 5 percent of the vote”, the real estate mogul said Tuesday night during his victory speech after winning five northeastern primaries. Barack Obama eight years ago.
Democratic candidates need 2,383 pledged delegates to win the nomination.
But he also noted that even if superdelegates from states Mr Sanders won flipped to his side, he would still face a narrow path to the nomination.
Clinton is now 92 percent of the way to clinching the Democratic nomination. With 83 pledged delegates at stake in the Hoosier State, Sanders’ win on Tuesday attests to the continued resonance of his progressive platform but does not upend the fundamental dynamics of the race. It takes 2,383 to win.
“A key to Sanders’ fundraising success has been that his grassroots supporters consistently have contributed more to his campaign than Hillary Clinton’s big-dollar donors”.
As it stands, Sanders claimed the DNC’s process is “overtly partisan”, suggesting “it is not open to the millions of new people that our campaign has brought into the political process”.
His campaign hasn’t said how much cash Sanders now has remaining in his campaign’s bank.
In total, the former secretary of state has raised about $213.5 million.
Republican primary voters were about equally likely to say that each of the top two candidates ran the most unfair campaign.
“We also can do arithmetic”.
Cruz received an endorsement last week by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who had earlier said he was not going to be endorsing any of the candidates.
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“The biggie is going to be in IN – because if we win in it’s over with, folks, it’s over with”.
