US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has defeated Hillary Clinton in West Virginia’s primary, winning over voters deeply sceptical about the economy and keeping his candidacy alive against the frontrunner.
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Trump has zeroed in on Clinton’s protracted battle with Sanders, a 74-year-old USA senator from Vermont. Bernie Sanders campaigned this week in Atlantic City, assailing Trump.
Trump Tuesday also took a slam on former candidates Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham for not adhering to a pledge candidates took past year to support the eventual nominee. But when including super-delegates, who are basically party officials who can back any candidate regardless of the popular vote, Clinton has 2,238 delegates – or 94-percent of the 2,383 needed to win. “Let me be as clear as I can be: We are in this campaign to win the Democratic nomination”.
Trump got even better news from American Samoa and Louisiana, which redistributed their delegates Tuesday afternoon.
At a campaign rally in Oregon, Sanders acknowledged that he has an uphill climb in terms of becoming the partys nominee, but said he would continue his fight till the end of the primary season.
“While we have many disagreements with Secretary Clinton, there is one area where we agree and that is we must defeat Donald Trump”.
A Democratic candidate must secure 2,383 delegates to win the nomination. “Donald Trump’s tax plan was written by a billionaire, for billionaires”, she said.
In the West Virginia Democratic primary, 7 in 10 say they’re very anxious about the economy and another 2 in 10 say they’re somewhat anxious.
McConnell spoke to reporters just after the first meeting of Senate Republicans since Trump became the presumptive nominee. Few in the mainstream media covered his triumph last week in Nebraska, either, and among people who aren’t die-hard Sanders supporters, few believe he has any shot at the Democratic presidential nomination. Voters surveyed in the poll said they would be more likely to support Clinton if her choice for vice president was a liberal, while Trump would help his chances if he picked someone experienced in politics and someone who is “consistently” conservative.
Almost 4 in 10 voters in the Nebraska Republican primary voted against Trump, even though he is the only GOP candidate still campaigning.
On the Republican side, Trump got 76.6 percent, while Texas Senator Ted Cruz won 9.1 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich only 7 percent.
Clinton’s loss is particularly stunning because she won the state by 40-percent when running against Barack Obama in 2008.
That makes Oregon’s 13 democratic superdelegates – a handful of which have already endorsed Clinton -up for grabs next week a drop in the bucket.
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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.
