In a contentious interview with Bernie Sanders aired on Tuesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Kristen Welker demanded the socialist senator pledge to support Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party: “Would you pledge to Democrats that you’re gonna campaign for Secretary Clinton?.Do you feel a sense of loyalty to the Democratic Party?”
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But most of the attention is expected to be paid to GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who will be headlining a rally Tuesday evening amid promises of protests in the heart of Albuquerque.
With the general election still more than five months away, the Clinton campaign is testing out a range of political attacks against Trump including on his controversial rhetoric and his foreign policy views.
State Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, who called her the next president of the USA, was one of the introductory speakers.
“He actually said he was hoping for the crash that caused hard-working families in California and across the country to lose their homes”.
Trump added: “If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know you can make a lot of money”.
Clinton’s image among Democrats remains more positive than Trump’s is among Republicans, but her image – unlike his – has not yet recovered from a slow slide downward, Gallup said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, May 7, 2016. “It may have started out as entertainment but now it’s really, really concerning”.
While Clinton has yet to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination, the chances that Vermont Sen. Sanders trails Hillary Clinton in the delegate count and he is running out of contests in his longshot bid to catch up. Hillary has made it clear that she isn’t a fan of corporations or special interests, so it’s no real surprise that her strategy would focus on those who have hit hard financial times.
Clinton’s surrogates will continue going after Trump on the issue in six battleground states through a series of press calls, statements and events, according to campaign aides.
Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs after a rally with supporters in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tuesday. “He can go ahead and engage on insulting and scapegoat and demeaning and bullying people”.
“He is going to pay the smallest amount of taxes possible, which I think the American people also understand”. It takes 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.
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The choice, Sanders says in narrating the 30-second ad, will be whether voters will want “to break the back of a corrupt system of campaign finance that keeps a rigged economy in place”.
