“She’s playing the women’s card like I’ve never seen anybody play it”, he insisted. Because Democrats award their delegates proportionately, Sanders would have to defeat Clinton by huge margins in the remaining states to catch her. This will largely depend on when – or if – Sanders decides to leave the primary race.
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“The decision by United Technologies to ship 2,100 jobs from IN to Mexico is the latest example of how NAFTA and other trade policies have been a disaster for American workers”, said Sanders shortly after the closure notice, recorded on a worker’s phone, went viral.
Clinton has a commanding, if not insurmountable, lead in the delegate count. She also said that she would protect President Barack Obama’s legacy as the first black president.
Watch Maddow explain her logic in the clip below.
Notably, pledged delegates are elected or chosen at the state or local level, with the understanding that they will support a particular candidate at the convention. “But we also have to remember who turned on the lights and powered the factories and provided the energy we needed to build our country”, she added.
Many polls across the state closed at 6 p.m. ET, while a dozen counties remained open until 7 p.m. ET. “But it didn’t stop her from caring” and traveling to the state, he said. Sanders, meanwhile, will rally in Kentucky, which votes May 17. Democrats tend to award delegates in proportion to their share of the vote.
Well, it’s true the 712 Democratic superdelegates are going to play an important role in the nomination process. Sanders has already declared victory for pushing Clinton to the left on trade and other issues. Including superdelegates, Clinton is just 218 delegates short of the 2,383 delegates she needs to clinch the nomination and it looks like she’ll get there in the next few weeks.
On the Democratic side, 51 percent of the participants said Clinton was their top choice for the nomination, while 43 percent said they preferred Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. If Clinton trounces Trump there, that spells doom for him in the general election. “I think I’m entitled to those superdelegates”, Sanders said. The Vermont senator has made clear he has no intention of throwing in the towel and will take his fight to the convention.
Trump boasted that he has “many Jewish friends” in a meeting with members of the Jewish media at Trump Tower last month.
Sanders has just 1,318 pledged delegates, compared to Clinton’s 1,645.
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Back in the halcyon days of Sanders’s “momentum”, when he’d won seven of eight contests in a row, including a big win in Washington, his argument was that the momentum would propel him through the end of the voting in June, offering a compelling argument to superdelegates that the will of the party now rested with him, and that Clinton’s early support was therefore negated.
