Hillary Clinton defeated her rival Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic primary Sunday, June 5, USA networks projected, bringing her to the brink of victory in their long-fought battle for the party’s presidential nomination.
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Hillary Clinton won the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, causing many media outlets to begin spinning the same story that Bernie Sanders supporters are exhausted of hearing: “Hillary Clinton is now 57 delegates away from clinching the nomination”.
Clinton is just 60 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to advance to the November general election, according to The Associated Press’ count.
Barring mathematically improbable landslide victories in Tuesday’s primaries, Sanders will still trail Clinton in pledged delegates.
Between her and her husband, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, the couple have held around 30 campaign events in the past five days, hoping to eke out a win in California, which has 546 delegates up for grabs and was supposed to be an easy win for Mrs Clinton.
“It is time to focus on squashing ‘El Trumpo, ‘” he said, referring to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The former secretary of state neared the brink of victory with a strong win yesterday in the island territory of Puerto Rico a day after the US Virgin Islands voted overwhelmingly for her.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles before holding a roundtable on healthcare in San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 4, 2015. She presented Trump not just as risky and unsteady, but also dismissed the things he wants to do in foreign policy as antithetical to US values.
Meanwhile, Sonia Prince, 60, of North Oxnard, said that while she is confident Clinton can fight fire with fire, she’d prefer not to hear about Trump at all. A new Field Poll shows Sanders leading Clinton 54 to 27 percent among likely primary voters with no party affiliation.
Hillary Clinton delivered a remarkable speech Thursday, one that was billed as a foreign-policy address, but was principally about laying out the case for why Republican Donald Trump is disqualified to be commander in chief.
Clinton won eight of the last 11 primaries.
“It is true we got close to immigration reform”, Clinton said in Los Angeles, recalling a 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill that failed when she, Sanders and President Obama were in the Senate.
When including superdelegates, her lead is substantial – 2,323 to Mr Sanders’ 1,547.
Clinton still needs about 70 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, WCBS 880’s Stephanie Colombini reported.
The New York billionaire businessman has vowed to build a wall on the U.S. -Mexico border and deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
Hillary Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders in all the major results, but Sanders is refusing to back down.
“This is not just another outlandish insulting comment from Donald Trump and it is not normal politics, this is something much, much more risky”, Clinton said. She beat the Vermont senator there by roughly 61 percent to 39 percent.
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But the question is whether they will eventually turn out to vote, said Dr Kousser.
