“I believe it is my responsibility and the responsibility of all of the delegates to ensure that we do right by the Democratic Party and nominate the candidate we believe has earned it, by the work her or she has done, and who will be the best candidate to run in the general election”, said Jacobs, a longtime Clinton supporter. The conventions will happen next week in IL, which was won by Clinton, and Alaska, which was won by Sanders.
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The remaining 67 district-level delegates couldn’t be awarded until breakdowns by congressional district were available. He had been considered the underdog but mounted an aggressive advertising campaign and visited with factory workers while she delegated the campaigning in the Hoosier State to her husband and daughter.
Data released Saturday show that Sanders will pick up 49 of those delegates, while Clinton will receive 18. Bernie Sanders winning streak at one after beating Sanders 60%-40% in the Guam Democratic caucus.
Clinton won 777 votes to the Vermont senator’s 528.
While Sanders has no obvious path to win the nomination at this point given how far behind he is in the delegate count, Clinton has refrained from asking him to drop out of the race. Clinton has won the majority of the superdelegates in almost every state Sanders has won. “All that is just to protect the elected officials so they don’t have to go face to face with an average person that’s going to be a delegate to the convention”. Sanders is roughly 1,000 delegates short. That leaves 152 still uncommitted.
State delegate Deborah Simpson of Auburn, Maine, wears a headband expressing her support for Hillary Clinton at the state Democratic convention, Friday, May 6, 2016, in Portland.
Clinton has 1,683 pledged delegates to Sanders’s 1,362, according to The Associated Press.
Clinton now has 2,224 total delegates – 1,709 pledged and 515 superdelegates.
Sanders pulled a surprise win against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the May 3 in primary, but the senator has virtually no mathematical pathway to toppling her.
On paper, Sanders has an uphill battle. Progressive Oregon is essentially “Sanders Country” and could hand him a Washington-sized landslide.
A final “super Tuesday” follows on June 7, with New Jersey (142), New Mexico (43), Montana (27), South Dakota (25), North Dakota (23), and California (543) all voting that day. What he said was at the appropriate time, the campaigns will get together, and I think that’s true.
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Sanders also said Wasserman Schultz did not select anyone that his campaign had recommended to the Rules Committee of the Democratic National Convention, even though the individual chosen to be its chair is a supporter of Clinton.
