An Associated Press count of superdelegates shows Clinton leading 547 to 46.
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Without the huge super-delegate advantage, Clinton’s lead is much narrower. Great, he wants to have his YOLO moments, go ahead, said Democratic strategist Mary Ann Marsh, using the acronym for the expression you only live once..
Amid increasingly brazen attacks on both sides, Clinton and Trump are emerging as the two rivals who will do battle in the general election. There were a few quiet protesters, a couple of whom were escorted out without fanfare.
There is a growing sentiment that a win in California for Sanders – especially one by a healthy margin – could be a race-changing moment. Bernie Sanders are spending most of Saturday reaching out to voters across the Los Angeles area in the run-up to Tuesday’s California Primary Election.
In a widely cited speech this week, Clinton said Trump was “thin-skinned”, “unprepared” and “temperamentally unfit” for the White House and had a “bizarre fascination with dictators”.
A senior adviser for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Friday that likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wouldn’t tell the truth even if she was waterboarded. Douglas E. Schoen of the Wall Street Journal wrote that a win by Sanders would underscore Clinton’s weaknesses and could give superdelegates the justification they need to change to Sanders. This, despite the fact that the senator has won primaries and caucuses in 20 states, raised more than $200 million and performed so well in delegate-rich California that he is now – according to a number of polls – locked in a virtual tie with Clinton.
But a loss in California, the nation’s most populous state, would undercut his case against Clinton. “I think we can win”.
Julie Harvey, a Democratic delegate from Pulaski, sported a button with a picture of Sanders that said “Not for sale”. Harry Reid and other party leaders weigh in next week – Sanders will face new pressure to reconsider his fight.
With the exception of some Sanders backers – Michael Lighty, the director of public policy at the pro-Sanders California Nurses Association, is positively sanguine about the senator’s chances – most Democrats give Clinton a slight edge in California.
“And I have sat in the Situation Room and advised the president on some of the toughest choices he faced”, she added. “It is very clear that Donald Trump’s negative ratings are enormously high, unprecedented for a major party presidential candidate, and Secretary Clinton’s negative ratings are also very, very high”.
Though she chronicled her roles in helping mold USA foreign policy in the past years, Clinton did not mention her uniquely hands-on role in the US participation in the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, a war which left the North African country a failed state and a terrorist haven.
Her polling surge comes as the billionaire has been harangued by criticisms over his Trump University, the target of a trio of lawsuits that claim it misled thousands of people who paid up to $US35,000 (NZD$50,000) for seminars to learn about his investment strategies.
New developments in the story emerged when Clinton’s former tech aide Bryan Pagliano announced he’s going to exercise his right to the Fifth Amendment, protecting him from self-incrimination in a deposition given to conservative group Judicial Watch about his involvement with the setup of Clinton’s email server. This is an amount she’d be sure to get in California and New Jersey.
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Briggs also noted that Clinton and Obama have taken in “Hamilton”. And progressive icons like Massachusetts Sen. In the final weeks of his failed 2012 primary bid, animal lover Newt Gingrich spent a lot of time visiting zoos trips that resulted in many photos of the candidates with a variety of animals.
