Tuesday holds five contests, and polling data suggests that large victories will be hard-won at best. “In New York state, 3 million independents were ineligible to vote”, he said. Bernie Sanders rejects the idea he should exit the race any time soon.
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“Today we took Secretary Clinton on in her own state of NY and we lost”, Sanders told reporters at the Burlington Airport.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took a brutal hit this week in his fight for the Democratic nomination.
Heading into Tuesday’s voting, Clinton held a pledged delegate lead of 1,428 to 1,153.
Democrats in the Deep South aren’t taking kindly to Sen.
Yes, it might be natural, but what about the NY primaries, when Donald Trump failed to win Manhattan? “They want to have the whole damn dollar”, Sanders said. And Tuesday could leave her with 90 percent of the delegates needed to win the nomination, leaving her just 200 or so shy. Under party rules, they’re considered “unpledged” and can support whichever presidential candidate they choose – and while some of Washington’s say they’re neutral, most have backed Clinton.
You might think that Donald Trump Jr. wanted to attack Cruz with this statement, but the interesting part is that he said that his father could bribe delegates and do it very well, if he wanted to. “In places where there are a fair number of young hipsters potentially, gentrifiers we call them”, says Fessenden.
Nationally, Trump has support from almost half of all Republicans, compared with 28 per cent for Cruz and 17 per cent for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump has long anticipated a general election showdown with Clinton, predicting at a rally in Pennsylvania last week: “We’re going to beat her so badly”. “My opponent, Senator Sanders voted for it”. Cruz will also likely be mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination on first ballot after Tuesday, an important talking point for Trump.
“We’re facing a choice”.
The campaign by Sanders backers has not convinced any of the local superdelegates to change their position, and some have complained of being harassed. Strong majorities of Republicans are telling pollsters they think whoever has the most votes should be the GOP nominee. “We have won 16 states right now”. “Our job is to bring people into the political process”.
“If we think we’ve made enough progress, then we’ll keep on the path that we’re on”, Tad Devine, a senior Sanders aviser, told NPR Saturday.
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As Trump gathers more states, he becomes harder and harder to deny as the nominee regardless of the delegate math, wrote Brian Beutler in the New Republic.
