While those victories have provided his supporters a fresh sense of momentum heading into next week’s primaries in Kentucky and OR, they did almost nothing to help Sanders cut into Clinton’s nearly insurmountable lead in the delegates who will decide their party’s nomination.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has urged his supporters to stay involved in politics up until the end of the 2016 presidential race, saying he is not a “savior”.
But Clinton already has begun turning her attention to Trump, Kuhn said, citing a recent Clinton campaign ad released that uses footage of Trump’s fellow Republicans trash-talking the GOP nominee. Ontiveros said that it depends what happens on the Republicans, and the he was sure that he’s not backing Hillary Clinton.
With the prospective 2016 election coming up this fall, Ohio University’s Athens campus has been abuzz with political support, particularly for the college favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders.
The entire convention was plagued by problems as Sanders supporters decried various voice vote decision, the delegate counts, and booed Sen.
The protracted fight between Clinton and Sanders, however, is cause for concern among other Democrats.
Hillary Clinton lost another primary to Sen.
Big-name surrogates have been sent, television ads are playing and Clinton is touring the state in advance of Tuesday’s voting. John Horvick, who conducted the second poll, told the Los Angeles Times that for a while, “It felt like this is Bernie Sanders country”, but that the race has turned into a seesaw.
A win in at least one of the two upcoming contests would give Clinton momentum heading into the primaries in California and New Jersey in early June.
The populist calculus could change if Sanders agrees to aggressively campaign for Clinton the way she did for then-senator Barack Obama in 2008. Sanders. Millennials have been hit hardest by student debt, income inequality, and the decline in upward economic mobility.
Hillary will have to clearly differentiate her message in the election campaign from these two visions of the United States. Younger voters are also keenly aware that they have an opportunity to influence the future direction of the Democratic Party.
Former president Bill Clinton, stumping in New Hampshire last winter, blasted “vicious trolling and attacks” by Sanders’ online supporters “that are literally too profane – often, not to mention, sexist – to repeat”. Growing anxiety over the economy, which is softening in President Obama’s final year, propelled Sanders over Clinton in these and other states – and it’s an issue perfectly tailored for Trump’s blue-collar billionaire populism. She wants to expand and improve the Affordable Care Act, reform welfare, and go against privatized Social Security, all points of interest for Sanders as well.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will rally with thousands of voters in Bowling Green, Kentucky Saturday after spending Friday calling for a ban on fracking in North Dakota. This has to deeply worry the Clinton camp.
