She said if the November election ends up being between Clinton and Trump, she won’t support either candidate. “But it seems like quite a leap, ideologically from Sanders to Trump”, Villanova Presidential Historian and Professor of Political Science David Barrett told Sputnik.
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Mr Sanders has vowed to campaign through to the final primary in Washington DC on June 14.
Mrs Clinton holds a commanding lead of almost 300 pledged delegates over Mr Sanders and a dominant advantage among party officials and elected leaders known as superdelegates.
Rather, she said, a Trump win could somehow advance Sanders’ agenda.
While Sanders has drawn huge crowds and won contests in 20 states, including in Oregon Tuesday, Clinton is expected to clinch the nomination on the last big primary day June 7, when California, New Jersey and other states vote.
“I should tell you that there are lots of people out there, politicians and pundits who say Bernie Sanders should drop out”.
Clinton is just 90 delegates shy of the 2,383 needed to seize the nomination, as reported by Fox News.
“That was the time to have sent a full-throated message to his followers: that we don’t do this kind of thing”, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said on CNN.
Boxer said in an interview that she spoke with Sanders this week, and found her Vermont colleague very upset, insisting “my people wouldn’t do this”.
Tuesday’s primary in Kentucky was too close to call with Clinton leading Sanders by less than one-half of 1 percent. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves as he walks onto the stage during a rally on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Carson, Calif.
Clinton’s sizeable lead in delegates means she will most likely emerge her party’s nominee. The anger in Nevada stemmed from events at this past weekend’s state Democratic convention, where Sanders’ supporters tried to change convention rules and seat more delegates who favor their candidate. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, also a superdelegate, has endorsed Sanders.
Sanders, in turn, issued a statement condemning “any and all forms of violence” but also fired back that the Democratic party of Nevada had used its power “to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking place”.
For weeks, some current and former Sanders campaign workers have privately acknowledged feeling disheartened about Weaver’s determination to go after the Democratic National Committee, fearing a pitched battle with the party they hope to support in the general election.
For Democrats, 55 delegates were up for grabs in Kentucky and 61 delegates were at stake in Oregon.
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Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky Secretary of State, said, with 99pc of the votes counted, Mrs Clinton was 1,800 votes ahead and only around 700 votes remained to be counted. “They say they want Donald Trump as their nominee, at least on the Republican side”, Cook said.
