Bernie Sanders said at a campaign rally in California that neither he nor Hillary Clinton will have the magic number of “real delegates” to win their party’s nomination after voters in the state cast their ballots next Tuesday. “This is no time for Democrats to keep fighting each other”, Brown writes.
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Hillary Clinton thinks she could win a historically Republican state in the general election.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been in contact with rival Bernie Sanders in an attempt to unify their party. Thats very different from last weeks Public Policy Institute of California survey of likely voters, which showed Clinton barely ahead of Sanders, 46 percent to 44 percent.
In an interview on CNN, Mrs Clinton said she expects to continue reaching out to Mr Sanders and will do so more frequently after next week’s primaries.
The endorsement was not easily won. Governor Jerry Brown hasn’t always had a good relationship with the Clintons, and Brown himself ran against Bill Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary back in 1992.
But on Tuesday Brown called for party unity and declared the former first lady’s delegate lead “insurmountable”.
At the party’s 1992 national convention in New York, Brown supporters roamed Madison Square Garden with tape over their mouths, protesting what they said was the muzzling of their candidate by party leaders.
“They are going to have to get to a place where Hillary Clinton is the candidate that they are going to support, having supported somebody else in a contested, occasionally bitter primary”, Dean said.
“If things go our way in New Jersey”, one senior Clinton official said, “we could wrap up the nomination and the rest of the country will already be asleep before the results are even final in California”.
“I don’t care what you say about me but you ought to be ashamed of yourself for jumping on my wife”, Bill Clinton told Brown in that debate.
Still, Brown and the Clintons eventually made nice.
Another significant development came today when Gov. Jerry Brown announced his endorsement of Clinton in an open letter on his website. He and the former president met last week. It was obvious that was why they were burying the hatchet.
He added: “Do folks want to be responsible for putting Donald Trump in the White House?”
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On Monday, Sanders claimed that he is more capable than Clinton of defeating Trump, whose campaign has been marred by his controversial remarks, particularly against Muslims and undocumented immigrants.
