Sanders talk of a contested convention has increased in recent weeks as members of the Democratic Party, some Clinton supporters and some not, have also started publicly urging Bernie to concede the nomination based on delegate counts.
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Though Sanders, a USA senator of Vermont, faces almost insurmountable odds to become the Democratic nominee, he has invested heavily in California, where a win could pressure the party to adopt some of the populist policies that have driven his campaign.
Polls show Sanders has chipped away at Clinton’s lead in the state, where Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have built a vast network of supporters, including increasingly powerful Hispanic voters. He called the nomination process “deeply flawed”, adding that whether he wins the nomination or not, he will do everything he can to change it.
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”.
“They are protecting her from going to jail, and she doesn’t want to anger the president by saying, ‘I disagree with you on this, ‘” he said.
The Oxnard rally was the second of four events she had scheduled Saturday in California, as she and her husband barnstorm the state ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
Clinton noted boxer Mohammad Ali’s passing as she said that in the United States, people are judged by their actions, not their race, ethnicity or religion. If the actual primary results match the polling, Clinton and Sanders would split the 475 delegates up for grabs.
“They were of different political parties, we know that, and I sure didn’t agree with everything they did”, she said of the Republicans to hundreds of cheering supporters in a stuffy high school gym.
The poll also found that Clinton has a slight edge in views of the candidates’ ability to manage the government effectively and whether they care about the needs of people, Gallup said.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this week that “sometimes you just have to give up”, a sign of what could come next.
Despite Democratic presidential 2016 hopeful Hillary Clinton’s vow to be “tough on Wall Street”, the majority of Fortune 500 CEOs said they would vote for her over presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. In it, she said Trump would lead the nation toward war and economic crisis, contrasting it with her long years of diplomatic experience and public service. Barack Obama be nominated by acclamation.
“I will support the victor, and I have no problem supporting Hillary”, Holzman said.
Sanders wants Democrats to break with tradition.
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The non-binding resolution approved at the Wisconsin Democratic Party Convention in Green Bay on Saturday calls on the national party to either end superdelegates or divvy them up proportionally. Clinton is now 67 delegates short of clinching the nomination through the combination of the two and is poised to cross that threshold in the coming days. And progressive icons like Massachusetts Sen.
