Sanders also wants the superdelegates to realize that many polls show him doing better than Clinton against expected Republican candidate Donald Trump.
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The attacks on Trump’s xenophobic policies and derogatory comments toward women will be used to help Clinton grasp the votes of minorities and women.
I dont think they think of the downside of this, said Sen.
The win comes one week after Sanders, a left wing politician, prevailed in Indiana’s Democratic primary and two weeks after Clinton dominated a series of contests in the northeastern United States.
“Let me be as clear as I can be, we are in the campaign to win the Democratic nomination”, Sanders said at a campaign event in Salem, Oregon.
In a speech at a brewery in southeastern OH last week, Clinton said coal is still a part of the nation’s energy supply, but even big coal-consuming nations like China are starting to burn less.
The 74-year-old Vermont Senator, Sanders, easily won the primary in West Virginia by more than 15 percentage points but acknowledged that he has an uphill climb in terms of becoming the party’s nominee.
Winning the California primary would be crucial for the Sanders campaign since the state has the highest number of Democratic primary delegates.
Hans Noel, an associate professor at Georgetown University, says that Sanders’ arguments, and those of his supporters, against Clinton that paint her as “basically a Republican” will have a lasting impact.
In a column entitled, “How Hillary Clinton could blow it”, Michael Brendan Dougherty outlines a number of faults that cold cause the former secretary of state to lose what now appears to be a lead over the GOP candidate.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says a big victory in West Virginia this week keeps his hopes alive that he can win the Democratic nomination.
Trump has said that he will make public his tax returns on the completion of an audit. “It’s a marathon you run to the end”, said Representative Xavier Becerra.
Clinton has a 767 delegate lead nationwide, and she will likely wrap up the nomination by the last day of primaries on June 7. Consider: Sanders is considered an Independent, not a true Democrat (so says Hillary, at least). At an OH town hall event, speaking about clean energy, Clinton said “we’re going put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”.
“We were surprised to see that there is pretty strong support to consider him as their frontrunner”, Shane said.
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While Sanders has gained some momentum as the primaries move west, it is unlikely he is capable of surmounting the delegate margin.
