While the prospective winners typically hold out an olive branch at this point, as Clinton as done towards Sanders, no such niceties are visible on the Republican side, where Trump continued to trash his opponents and girdled up for what he sees as the big battle against Clinton. Trump is the only GOP presidential candidate with a realistic shot at securing the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. “The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card”, Trump said, adding, “And the attractive thing is: Women don’t like her”.
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She predicted that Trump would be “shellacked by Hillary Clinton” if he is the nominee, but asserted that he could lose the nomination if he doesn’t get the majority.
Matt Rourke/AP After four big wins during the “Acela” primaries, Hillary Clinton can prepare for the main event against Donald Trump.
“On her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and president than the Republican candidate on his best day”, Takei said, quoting Sanders.
Speculation about the end of Sanders’ campaign for president has been swirled after Clinton’s primary wins in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
Trump’s remarks about Clinton and a “woman’s card” have drawn a backlash among women in the United States.
However, according to the same poll, 70 percent of women have an unfavorable view of Trump (as do 58 percent of men), for a net favorability rating of negative-47.
Clinton, in a victory speech in Philadelphia, took aim at Trump for accusing her of trying to “play the woman card”.
IN with 57 delegates and California with 172 delegates are the states with the highest number of delegates for Republicans candidates until the party convention in July.
Clinton’s allies note that Republican Donald Trump has been co-opting Sanders’ pitch against Clinton, which the businessman acknowledged Wednesday. She needs only 232 more delegates to reach the goal of 2,383. We are in this campaign to win and become the Democratic nominee.
“I think the reason for that is the Democratic party up to now has not been clear about which side they are on of the major issues facing this country”, the Vermont senator said while campaigning in Springfield, Oregon. “We’re a republic, actually, not a democracy”.
Now that this year’s hotly contested primaries have put such inequities under the spotlight, leaders of both parties should get to work, once this election is behind us, building a more equitable and just primary system that will encourage, not discourage, voter participation. “And that was a perfectly reasonable decision”, Cruz said. “To me, this is breaking all the rules, this is going against any of the typical history books and elections of the past”.
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“When he is attacked, he will respond”, Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told Reuters in an interview.
