This broader silence around indigenous issues is telling, both in terms of how important they seem to presidential candidates and, more broadly, whether they or the history informing them are on politicians’ radar at all.
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While Sanders is one of the democratic presidential candidates, he has made it very clear that he is a socialist. For his plan to work, he’ll need plenty of big-time breaks.
Williamson, West Virginia (CNN)Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaign spent part of Monday fighting over how much money the front-runner’s operation has actually raised for state parties, with Sanders’ campaign charging Clinton with “laundering” donations.
Not unexpectedly, Donald Trump invoked Sanders’ sharp criticisms of Clinton in justifying his attacks on her alleged incompetence. Trump played coy, Clinton pointed out, when asked to disavow David Duke and other white supremacists supporting his campaign.We deserve leaders who will tear down barriers, not build walls between us, Clinton added. The former secretary of state is still 91 percent of the way to the nomination, according to The Associated Press.
Clinton also has an edge of roughly 3 million raw votes.
Priorities USA Action, a superPAC that supports Clinton, announced last month that it raised $11.8 million in March and has more than $44 million cash on hand. Those numbers do not include Iowa, Nevada, Maine, Alaska, Washington and Wyoming caucus states where AP tabulated delegate equivalents, not raw votes.
The argument that Sanders is making-and his campaign has been making-is that superdelegates in states that voted heavily in favor of Sanders should follow the voters. But Clinton has scooped up oaths of support from several of them, including Richmond and state Rep. Karen Carter-Peterson.
She remains 218 delegates short. Districts where Democrats fared well in the past election cycle got more delegates.
So far Clinton has won about 55% of the pledged delegates elected to the convention. The Vermont senator would need to win 710 out of the 1083 pledged delegates remaining to take the majority, which equates to 65%.
Bernie Sanders supporters are planning an event called the People’s Summit for late June in Chicago, days after the final primary. The results among Democratic voters have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5 percentage points, it is the same for results among Republican voters.
Some of these officials’ constituents are vocal, passionate Sanders supporters who are not happy to see their local representatives support Clinton.
But there’s another possible explanation for Sanders’s superdelegate strategy – one that doesn’t depend on him banking on a scenario that essentially nobody thinks has a chance of succeeding. Meanwhile her primary opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, the future president was able to persuade dozens of superdelegates to come to his side.
According to Rasmussen Reports, the billionaire has the support of 41 percent of the American voters while the former Secretary of State has just 39 percent.
“Obviously we differ on many things, but where we strongly agree, and every delegate strongly agrees, is that it would be a disaster to this country if Donald Trump or some other right-wing Republican candidate to win”.
That said, if all the superdelegates in states that have already voted aligned with the general Democratic populations of their respective states, Clinton would have 374 superdelegates and Sanders would have 147, the ABC News analysis shows.
By either calculation, Sanders would still trail Clinton in the total delegate count.
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