“If there is a large voter turnout, we will win here, and if we win here, we’re going to have a bounce going into New York State, where I think we can win”, he added.
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Both candidates approved of Brooklyn as the location.
Hillary Clinton gave a private pep talk to Democratic state legislators in her adopted state Monday, urging them to help her win big in the NY primary – and possibly lock up the party’s nomination, numerous officials said afterward.
Wisconsin, with its 86 Democratic elected delegates and 10 superdelegates up for grabs, is considered crucial as the candidates head to Clinton’s home state of NY and elsewhere on the East Coast. The debate will take place in Brooklyn and will be moderated by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, who led two GOP debates earlier this election season. Both campaigns have been spending at a furious pace, with Sanders’ overall burn rate slightly ahead of Clinton’s.
“The Sanders campaign’s path forward relies on overturning the will of the voters: The math being what it is, the Sanders campaign has struggled to explain their path to the nomination”. Clinton has a campaign headquarters in the New York City borough.
In the end, the Clinton campaign got the date that they wanted (April 14), and the Sanders campaign got the location that they wanted (Brooklyn, NY). Joining in the apparent unity of goal, this verbal prize fight was sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee.
“We hope the debate will be worth the inconvenience for thousands of New Yorkers who were planning to attend our rally on Thursday but will have to change their schedules to accommodate Secretary Clinton’s jam-packed, high-dollar, coast-to-coast schedule of fundraisers all over the country”, Michael Briggs, Sanders’ spokesman, said in a statement.
Clinton’s camp thanked New York’s Hometown Newspaper for its role in bringing the debate to fruition.
That schedule had Sanders holding a Washington Square Park rally April 14.
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When Bernie Sanders announced last week that his campaign raised a record $44 million in March, people immediately began to wonder how much Hillary Clinton raked in and if it would be enough to blunt her insurgent challenger heading into a key string of primaries.
