Hillary Clinton declared herself the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Thursday and, looking to the fall election, said that her likely Republican rival, Donald Trump, was not qualified to be president.
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“There are six states remaining and I hope by the end of this nominating process, we will win at least half or more of the states in our country”, Sanders said.
A new CBS News/New York Times poll reveals that Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has dwindled in a general election match-up.
Much like their view that the economy has been “rigged” to benefit the wealthy more than the middle and working classes, Sanders supporters have become increasingly convinced that national Democrats have stacked the political deck with rules that have made it hard for Sanders to win enough delegates to threaten Clinton’s nomination.
The loud protests prompted Clinton supporters waiting to see her to demand Sanders end a campaign they say is now serving only to divide Democrats.
The rush to conspiracy theories, appropriation of the real, ongoing struggles against actual voter suppression including voter ID laws, and the embrace by some on the Sanders left of every scurrilous accusation against Hillary Clinton, from the ’90s to Benghazi, is jarring.
And according to tallies from RealClearPolitics, Clinton leads Sanders in the popular vote by more than 3 million ballots.
While the survey shows both Trump and Clinton with favorability ratings under water, Trump performs slightly poorer with a 55 percent unfavorable rating among the broader electorate. They booed speakers and some hurled profanity and death threats at the state party chairwoman, stirring fears about violence and disunity at the national convention in July.
On divisions among Democrats, Mrs Clinton said she is committed to party unity, but she argued that Mr Sanders will also have to play a role in bringing Democrats together. “He’s mobilized and inspired the future of the Democratic Party”.
Sanders hopes to close the gap in pledged delegates in California and New Jersey and sway superdelegates – party leaders who can back any candidate – to support him over Clinton.
Asked if she had the urge to defend her family’s honor against the onslaught of attacks that will only get louder in the coming months, Clinton said: “No, not at all. It’s mathematically impossible for Bernie to secure the nomination”.
On that note Clinton said, ‘He has to do his part to unify. In 1993, Wiley said the then-President groped her in the White House.
“I think if you go through many of his irresponsible, reckless, unsafe comments, it’s not just somebody saying something off the cuff”, Clinton said.
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“I will go with Bernie”, Jackson said. “But in the context of the campaign terms like “even-handed” can come to mean that the United States is signaling a shift [which would be opposed by Clinton]”. “This is a pattern that’s gone on now for months”.
