Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia, a victory that does little to slow rival Hillary Clinton’s march to their party’s nomination.
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It won’t be easy.
The state of the race is Pennsylvania is similar to that of Florida; Clinton leads Trump 43 percent to 42 percent.
Clinton, appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, continued to nudge the Vermont senator to get behind her campaign, citing her own experience rallying behind Barack Obama in 2008 when the popular vote and delegate count were tighter.
47 percent of Trump’s voters flock to him exclusively because they do not want Clinton to win, while 46 percent of Clinton voters are with her because they do not want Trump to succeed. His supporters say the impact of party insiders on the nomination process is just one prominent example of an undemocratic system that can tilt a close race against the will of the voting public. He has become more conservative and liked Ted Cruz for president, Santana said, yet he added: “I can not vote for Trump”. She was a total enabler and they’re going after me with women, give me a break, folks.
Clinton’s sole base in Louisiana is with the black community, which she leads Trump with by a 85 percent to 4 percent margin.
A victory by Sanders over Clinton on Tuesday in West Virginia could boost his campaign in advance of June 7 contests in which almost 700 delegates are at stake, including 475 in California, where Sanders is now focusing his efforts. Clinton’s campaign hopes suburban women, turned off by Trump’s bombastic rhetoric, could be a key source of support for her in the fall.
Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
In her speech, Clinton acknowledged several times that numerous voters she met with during her Appalachian tour would never vote for her. The trip nonetheless made sense as part of a larger obligation of leadership.
Some of her support comes from voters less interested in supporting Clinton and more interested in opposing Trump. Clinton led Trump by 42%-38% nationally in that poll.
However, the path to the nomination does not get easier for Sanders, even if he won West Virginia, since Clinton already has 2,228 out of the 2,383 she needs to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.
She is expected to lose West Virginia, a coal-rich state where 400 of the 500 mines shut down in the last eight years, because of her position on climate change, support for clean energy. And Trump may encounter a lot more pushback from Clinton and the media if he persists in waging bombastic personal attacks against her and her husband.
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“Trump all the way”, said poll respondent Gail Engle, a 65-year-old retiree who lives in the Hammocks and backed Mitt Romney in 2012.
