His plea was upvoted more than 4,000 times.
Advertisement
Supporters of Vermont Sen. “If elected … I will refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton”, he said, drawing a chorus of boos.
That he did not say.
‘He has been underestimated throughout the process, so I’m hesitant to be too judgmental, ‘ Short said.
Sanders agrees with Clinton on the issue of gun control.
On Saturday, Mr Trump took a swipe at party loyalists resisting him, saying he would beat Mrs Clinton and “it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit”. “We’re a nation of immigrants”, the son of Dominican immigrants continued. “My grandmother came here in 1922 at the age of six and she was no a murderer or rapist”.
But Sanders’ focus on the “rigged economy” and other populist topics had followers convinced he was leading the “political revolution” he promised. “Between now and then we don’t know what’s going to happen”. Bernie Sanders is staying in the Democratic primary race even though he can not possibly get enough delegates to win the nomination.
“Think about Bernie”, Trump said. “He was doing the best he could”.
Longtime Democratic Party member Jan Ellsworth of Des Moines, a Clinton supporter, said she welcomed “fresh faces” into the party.
Sanders has no delusions that he can still be the nominee.
Most of the frustration and anger here has been directed at the Democratic Party and, in particular, its chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. So that’s 23 delegates for Clinton and 21 for Sanders.
Here’s the delegate math: According to the Associated Press count, Clinton has 2,219 pledged delegates.
Some supporters wore shirts referring to a wall proposed by Trump to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border, directing the Republican candidate to take his wall and “shove it”, a reference to incendiary anti-Trump remarks penned in a recent letter by U.S. Congressman Filemon Vela, of Brownsville, who on Friday took the stage for a speech urging his party to rally behind Clinton.
“I think Bernie should continue to go forward, folks, he should continue to go forward. Hillary is a politician through and through and she will be responsive to the pressures that can be created by the movements”. “MoveOn.org isn’t what it used to be, but it’s still out there”.
But would it drive them to vote for Hillary Clinton this fall? Now they have a real prospect of being shut out of national power altogether. “Bernie would probably want promises that Hillary, as president, would pursue certain parts of his agenda”.
New voter Sruthi Palaniappan, 18, of Cedar Rapids, a Clinton supporter, was elected from her district convention to serve as a national delegate.
“I can see (Sanders) chilling out for a while, ” Moroski said.
Despite the efforts of many, Donald Trump has not followed along with his advisers and made a decision to go his own way, putting his campaign at risk. I release my delegates.
“When it looks like there’s something, like maybe they’ve fallen out, don’t get it twisted: Debbie Wasserman Schultz is going to be hooked up somewhere, somehow”, she said.
But she didn’t have much patience for complaints from new Democrats that the system is unfair to Sanders.
The poll’s five-day average showed that 45.5 percent of likely American voters supported Clinton, while 34.8 percent supported Trump, and another 19.7 percent did not support either candidate.
Advertisement
Greg Beswick, executive director of the Ohio Democratic Party, said of Trump’s people: “They’re not putting together the kind of campaign you need to win in Ohio, never mind in a number of swing states”.
