Democratic primary voters think former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not Sen. Backers of the former first lady, however, are more firm in their support than those backing Sanders, the poll found. The delegates were asked which candidate they plan to support at the convention next summer.
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More specifically, Democratic primary voters think Clinton is the candidate who is more likely to get her policies enacted if she were elected president.
Ten out of 15 superdelegates publicly support Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Among women, Clinton leads Sanders by a 56 to 28 percent margin.
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Sanders’ supporters were not sure as 58 percent of them said they have yet to make a final decision.
When he and Clinton face off again on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, Sanders will portray himself as more willing to take on Wall Street and better able to reform a corrupt campaign finance system, said Tad Devine, Sanders’ senior adviser. That’s a shift from his approach earlier in the campaign – including in the last debate, when he told Clinton that voters were “sick of hearing about your damn emails”, a gift for the front-runner.
Since then, the Democratic primary race has heated up. Other local leaders have yet to formally endorse her, including Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council member Anita Bonds. She also sat on the board for Ready for Hillary, the now-defunct super PAC that supported Clinton’s candidacy before she entered the race. At the time, Obama had 63 and a handful of other candidates had commitments as well from the smaller fraction of superdelegates willing to commit to a candidate.
Rollins said she will support whichever candidate is nominated by the Black Caucus.
When this article is published, it will mark one year until Election Day 2016.
In August, Sanders scored his first national union endorsement, from National Nurses United.
Enthusiasm for Sanders is also low, with just 35 percent of voters saying they would whole-heartedly support him should he win the party’s nomination.
However, Nodland added, if Clinton is the party’s nominee, “I will knock on doors for her. There are just more issues I agree with Bernie”.
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Gregory Pecoraro, a Maryland superdelegate, said he has a lot of respect for O’Malley, but he is supporting Clinton, because he believes she has the right mix of experience and vision for the country. He called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 11-hour-long questioning about Benghazi “pure politics” and expressed his dismay over her email controversy.
