“Sanders and I spoke about, that we both care about, and that we have so much more in common than we do with the Republican presumptive nominee, Donald Trump”.
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“This kind of flag-waving and celebrating … is disrespectful to those who feel that the democratic process is flawed”, said state Rep. Joe Salazar, a delegate to the national convention angry about Clinton’s use of Democratic superdelegates to claim her party’s nomination.
Clinton was forced to cut campaigning short in New Jersey last week and to add events in California. As she at last celebrated her 2016 primary triumph with supporters in NY on Tuesday night, she returned to the metaphor, saying: “This campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us”.
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said Trump’s comments could spur talk of a challenge at the convention.
Holding, a former federal prosecutor, also said Trump’s comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel were inappropriate.
“Our campaigns are talking to one another”, Clinton told Muir of her discussions with Sanders’ team.
No suspense there: Trump has held that title for weeks, and Clinton clinched it on the eve of the votes.
The ferocious 17-way battle for the GOP nomination ended quietly Tuesday with the contest’s final votes in five states (there was no GOP contest in North Dakota).
But it is historic nonetheless: the former Secretary of State will be the first woman ever to contest a USA presidential election at the head of a major political party. Donald Trump seized the opportunity to speak in the unifying, substantive tones Republican leaders have demanded in recent days.
Sanders’ achievements have been remarkable for a candidate who was unknown to most Americans before the campaign.
“We are going to fight hard to win the primary in Washington D.C., and then we take our fight for social, economic, racial and environmental justice to Philadelphia”.
But South Dakota, New Mexico, Montana and California – the most important of the current primaries – are still anyone’s game.
On the Republican side?
Technically, it’s still not over on either side.
Baldridge pressed the case that networks had prematurely called the race for Clinton, since superdelegates do not officially vote until the convention. Given her strong finish on Tuesday, she now seems likely to reach a majority on pledged delegates alone.
This time, Clinton gets the celebration she’d hoped for in 2008 – and by many accounts, long before that. “This campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us”.
For the first time in 240 years, a woman – Hillary Clinton – locked up a major party’s nomination for president.
Many of his supporters, often young and hostile to Clinton, will be keeping up the pressure on her to keep the Sanders agenda alive.
The occasion also opens the gates to flashy endorsements.
By this week, Ms Clinton was ahead of Mr Sanders by several states, close to 300 pledged delegates and some three million individual votes. There’s a bigger endorsement on the horizon from President Obama, followed by joint appearances.
Today’s contests give the billionaire mogul a high-profile way to pivot from several hard days in which members of his own party almost unanimously ordered him to cease his criticism of an American-born judge based on the jurist’s ethnicity.
In his victory speech, Trump spoke of new beginnings. “I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle”.
Now she has begun her official victory speech, telling the crowd: “Tonight’s victory is not about one person”.
If some Republicans harbored hopes of edging Trump off the Republican ticket at the party convention, that was dashed in Tuesday’s uncontested GOP primaries.
For at least one high-profile Republican, it was too late: Sen. House Speaker Paul Ryan kept his but called Trump’s remarks about the judge “racist” and suggested that the mature thing for Trump to do would be to admit they were wrong.
That didn’t happen. But instead of attacking his critics, Trump offered signs he was turning a corner.
Sanders channeled his supporters’ defiance when he took the stage shortly before 11 p.m. PT and told them what they wanted to hear: he’s not ready to concede the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton, who secured the delegates she needs on Monday.
“I always thought we would have a woman president sooner”, Pelosi said in an interview Tuesday.
Sanders planned to travel to Vermont Wednesday, and beyond that has declined to describe his plans.
In North Carolina today, Rep. Renee Ellmers, endorsed by Trump, became the first Republican incumbent ousted in this year’s primaries. Early results showed Republican incumbents holding strong in the most closely divided districts now in GOP hands.
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Across the country, California is poised – barring a surprise – to send two Democratic women running for Senate to the November ballot: Attorney General Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Orange County. Speaking to supporters at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, the GOP’s presumptive nominee intensified his attacks on his future general election opponent, accusing her of having “turned the State Department into a private hedge fund” during her tenure as Secretary of State. The diversity of the electorate appeared to favor Clinton, whose advantage among Latino and black voters helped to defeat Sanders in early voting states.
