Trump called Clinton a “weak person” and said that she should be in jail for her email scandal.
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“We are trying to elect a president”, Clinton said during a long riff on Trump, “not a dictator”. “And that means she’s going to have to address their needs”. Sanders hope is to win California and do well in the other five remaining primaries and use those performances to try and convince super delegates to switch their support to him.
Of course, that was after she implied those voters were being brainwashed by Sanders’ lofty proposals and when she confidently told CNN’s Chris Cuomo there is “no way” she won’t be the Democratic nominee.
On Sunday, a new poll released by CBS News also found that while Clinton leads Trump in a hypothetical matchup with 48 to 33 percent in California and 49 to 34 percent in New Jersey, Sanders leads Trump by larger margins of 23 and 18 percent in the two states respectively.
At a town hall in Los Angeles, Sanders promised to fight for comprehensive immigration reform and said that trade deals, over which he and Clinton have frequently sparred, funnel “cheap corn” into Mexico and “drive small family farmers off their land”.
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.
“The game he is playing is to be able to draw as many concessions as he can out of the party and the Clinton campaign”, Mollineau said.
Among those voting was Democratic Party superdelegate Andres Lopez, one of the insiders who can vote for the candidate of their choice at the summer convention.
She has dominated the heavily Hispanic states so far this election, winning over 70 percent of the vote in Texas and Florida.
The two candidates running even in California would have little effect on the overall delegate equation, which Clinton leads by almost 300 pledged delegates and 770 overall. Sanders campaigned there a week ago; Clinton was in the area on Friday and may return again before Tuesday’s vote. Instead, Sanders said the DNC should prepare for a “contested convention”.
Clinton said Trump is attacking the judge so people don’t “look down here at all the scum that came out of Trump University”, a for-profit school Trump put his name on that is now being accused of framing consumers. But if Sanders loses California, he’s likely to face pressure to drop out.
Neither Obama nor Vice President Joe Biden have endorsed Clinton but their nod of approval would send a strong signal to Democrats and could marginalize Sanders’ quest to push forward into the convention.
The AFL-CIO, the labor federation representing 12.5 million workers, has also withheld an endorsement but could send a powerful message to union members by backing Clinton.
“I’m for Hillary, girl”, said 83-year-old Candida Dones on Sunday as she cast her ballot.
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But Sanders has been narrowing the gap.
