The White House came to the defense of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Thursday, one day after rival Bernie Sanders charged that the former secretary of state is “not qualified” to serve as president.
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“She has been saying lately that she thinks I am quote-unquote not qualified to be president”, Sanders said. I don’t think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq.
“I believe the Clinton campaign told CNN that their strategy is, ‘we go into NY and Pennsylvania”. “All the research that I have seen about who is supporting Sen”.
NY is Trump’s home state as well.
Clinton proposed a NY debate on the evening of April 4 – but the Sanders campaign rejected the idea as “ludicrous” because the NCAA basketball championship would be later that night, and Syracuse might be playing.
In New York, a state with 247 delegates up for grabs, Sanders trails Clinton by 11 percent of the vote with 42.5 percent support in averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics.
At the event in Philadelphia, Sanders said Clinton had been acting “nervous” because she sensed momentum shifting in his favor – Sanders won six of the past seven nominating contests.
Sanders’ adviser Tad Devine defended the Vermont senator’s ties to the Democratic Party Wednesday.
As all five remaining candidates turn their attention eastward after the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, the style and locations of events are going to be different than they have in the past.
The latest Quinnipiac poll of New York Democrats finds Clinton beating Sanders 54% to 42%.
But this hasn’t stoppped Ms Clinton’s staffers from pillorying Mr Sanders over the interview and his subsequent comments, or from unsuccessfully attempting to get #TakeItBackBernie trending on Twitter. Despite Sanders’ repeated insistence that numerous 469 “superdelegates” in Clinton’s column should come over to his side, precious few have so far, leaving him with just 31.
Sanders has rejected some lines of attack against Clinton.
Sanders said in the AP interview Friday that “by definition, she has a great deal of experience”. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York’s junior senator, also endorsed Clinton.
Sanders, a 74-year-old self-described socialist, has persuaded young and new voters fed up with Washington that he can help the underpaid, overworked American worker by launching a “political revolution”.
“Ted Cruz will win on the second ballot if not on the way in and he will unite the party”, Walker, who withdrew his presidential candidacy, said in an interview Wednesday on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee.
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Clinton told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Sanders’ recent remark that gun dealers shouldn’t necessarily be subject to lawsuits was “unimaginable” because it put the rights of the gun industry above parents whose children have been killed by guns. Clinton is the one who leads with pledged delegates and in the popular vote count, and the Sanders campaign has begun to shift its rhetoric, suggesting that superdelegates should ignore who’s leading nominally if he ends the primary contests with a strong finish.
