But Sanders supporters shrug off that worry, arguing that Trump is such a flawed candidate that Clinton will easily dispatch with him if she faces him in the November 8 election.
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Clinton, 68, squeezed out a cliffhanger victory over Sanders in Kentucky, where the Secretary of State’s office said she led by 1,923 votes with all precincts reporting. He is still aiming to wrestle the nomination from Clinton even though he would need to win about two-thirds of the remaining pledged delegates to end the primary season in a tie.
“But we are not going to allow the millions of people who supported Bernie Sanders to be sort of rolled over in places like Nevada by the way, they handled that convention”, Weaver added.
The next contests will be held June 7, including in the delegate heavy states of California and New Jersey, with the final contest in Washington D.C. on June 14. After voting Tuesday in OR and Kentucky, Clinton had 2,291 delegates – 524 of them superdelegates – to Sanders’ 1,488 (only 40 superdelegates). “I’ll tell you this”. Sanders attributed the loss to the state’s closed primary, meaning only Democrats can vote for the party nominee; Sanders performs better in states where unaffiliated voters can cast ballots.
Mr. Trump also took a further step towards becoming his party’s official candidate taking 67% of the vote in the Republican party’s primary in OR on Tuesday.
“This is most applicants for delegate we’ve ever seen in Arizona, to my knowledge”, said Sheila Healy, executive director of the Arizona Democratic Party.
While Clinton has not officially locked up the nomination, Sanders chances of getting the 2,383 needed to win are growing increasingly slim.
In a statement, Sanders said he “condemns any and all forms of violence” but also defiantly lambasted the party for being “dependent on big-money campaign contributions” and “a party with limited participation and limited energy”.
But Alison Lundergan Grimes, chairwoman of the Kentucky State Board of Elections, told CNN that unofficial results confirmed that Clinton would narrowly win the state’s primary contest.
Lange said she’s received several death threats, including to her husband and grandson.
The outcomes in Kentucky and OR, where Mr Sanders led by 9 percentage points with roughly three-quarters of the vote counted, did not dramatically change the delegate count.
While some progressive voters may have felt torn between Bernie Sanders’ idealism and the pragmatism of front-runner Hillary Clinton, when it was all over Oregon Democrats went with the senator from Vermont.
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A Democratic Party convention in Nevada descended into chaos over the weekend as Sanders supporters reacted violently to being shunted out of what they believe was their fair share of the state’s delegates.
