After winning five states in the GOP primaries on Tuesday, Donald Trump focused on insulting Hillary Clinton in his victory speech.
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At rallies, Sanders has sent mixed signals during the past week over whether he will ease up on Clinton.
He said his campaign would “allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff”.
Citing the campaign, CNN reported that the number recently shrank to about 550. However, as many as 10,000 people had RSVP’d on Facebook for the event, according to Justice Eiden the vice president of IU Students for Bernie Sanders.
“That’s unheard of” for a campaign still in the thick of a primary battle, Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told AFP. But in this case, the layoffs should really start at the top.
“Bernie Sanders has a message that’s interesting”. IN votes on Tuesday.
The final primary date is June 7, when voters in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota will go to the polls to determine who wins 303 Republican delegates. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in 25 states this year show Clinton won 62 per cent of female voters over Bernie Sanders’$2 36 per cent. Of those, 500 have already declared their support for Clinton. “It is going to be hard for party elites to withhold the nomination from him even if he is a few delegates short”, he said.
Most evidence indicated the LGBT community’s support in Tuesday’s primary states was behind Clinton, as it has been in most previous primaries.
Clinton’s allies note that Republican Donald Trump has been co-opting Sanders’ pitch against Clinton, which the businessman acknowledged Wednesday. “She has called for a comprehensive ban on discrimination against LGBT people at the federal level, a ban on the awful practice of “reparative therapy” for LGBT minors, and a fully-fledged plan to combat HIV/AIDS, including a plan for an AIDS-free generation”. Or compare it with the Obama-Clinton standoff of 2008 – a much closer contest.
“The results for Secretary Clinton were so strong that it is very plain she will be our nominee”, said another Democrat, Tim Kaine.
On the evening of the last primary, despite having been defeated, Hillary Clinton stunned observers by refusing to concede. It wasn’t until several days later that she formally threw in the towel. “I’m seeing young people understand they’re the future of this country”.
Defeated candidates often lose clout. That will nearly certainly be true on the Democratic side this year.
Sanders, who spent his political career as an independent and not a Democrat, appears determined to anchor the Democratic Party on the left.
“They talk in a negative way when they want to about Donald, and say he isn’t presidential”, Knight said.
His fight will include a call for a $15 minimum wage, Sanders said, a Medicare-for-all public health care system, and an end to “disastrous trade policies” that he believes have sped the decline of American manufacturing. About 80 percent of those aged 18 to 29 have voted for Sanders. But he added: “November is a long time away”.
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There were just too many million- and billionaires willing to dump huge amounts of money into one or several campaigns, and not enough actual voters voting for the candidates those big donors preferred.
