But they expect Democrats to turn out in lower numbers than they did in 2008, when 2.3 million voters, or almost 56 percent, cast ballots in the race between Clinton and then-Illinois Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign. Kasich didn’t stop campaigning in Florida, and Rubio lost his home state, while the OH governor won his.
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“Because all the polling shows that Mr. Trump loses to both Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton by huge margins”.
Donald Trump has declared himself the “presumptive” Republican nominee after securing a clean sweep in five crucial contests and edging ever closer to securing the party’s candidacy.
“I think it’s a good thing because it shows weakness, it shows ineffectiveness, but really it’s collusion”, he said.
Hillary Clinton is 232 delegates shy of clinching the Democratic nomination, when including superdelegates.
Mr Trump appeared pugnacious but reasonably restrained when he appeared before supporters after enjoying victories in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland and CT. Earlier Tuesday, Clinton won the races in Maryland and Delaware.
Still, the Vermont senator continues to attract tens of thousands to his rallies and raise millions of dollars online.
Speaking in Huntington, West Virginia, after the vote, Bernie Sanders vowed to fight to the end of the nomination process, saying he would attract broad support in November’s election. According to the AP count, Clinton has 1,946 delegates while Sanders has 1,192. He’s only been winning 38 percent. Those who oppose it are divided among the Clinton and Sanders camps.
If those delegates held to their informal promises, Mr Trump could win most of Pennsylvania’s votes on the first round in Cleveland, conservative strategist Charles Gerow, who was also running to be a Pennsylvania delegate, said.
There are still many delegates from Tuesday to be allocated, pending final vote tallies.
“That is a point I hope the delegates to the Democratic convention fully understand”.
In Pittsburgh Monday, Sanders said when voters turn out in large numbers, his campaign does well. The effectiveness of the strategy was quickly called into question after Kasich said publicly that while he won’t spend resources in IN, his supporters in the state should still vote for him. “But at a minimum, they are just not going to vote”.
But there were signs that some of his supporters were beginning to accept that he might not make it all the way to the White House.
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Even with the blowouts in back-to-back weeks, Trump still has a lot of work to reach 1,237 delegates in pledged delegates. “It’s whether the Democratic establishment is going to bring our party together by embracing our fight”, Chamberlain said. About 20% say they’ll support the front-runner and another 33% say they’ll support their district’s choice.
