Polls showed her lead to be somewhere in the range of 15 to 18 points over Bernie Sanders, pointing to a win that would seal the nomination, thanks to Clinton’s big lead in the party-picked superdelegates, many of whom committed to her before a single vote was cast this year.
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Hillary Clinton won the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, causing many media outlets to begin spinning the same story that Bernie Sanders supporters are exhausted of hearing: “Hillary Clinton is now 57 delegates away from clinching the nomination”.
He said she will have to instead rely on super-delegates, or those who have previously committed to Clinton, to claim the nomination and that he will continue to try to win over those delegates to take the nomination at the party’s convention in July. Sanders has 1,547 delegates, included 1,501 pledged delegates and 46 superdelegates, according to the AP.
“They know that they really have kept the center of the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton, who is going to be the nominee, off balance”, Baggins said.
“I am running for president because I want to give the American people a real choice in this election – a choice not just to vote against somebody but to vote for a vision for where our great country can become”, Sanders said at the Los Angeles news conference.
The federal district of Washington, DC, holds the final Democratic primary on June 14. Clinton has appeared to adopt some of Sanders’s rhetoric and policies while on the campaign trail.
And there’s the perception that the reason polls show Sanders performing better against Trump, is that Sanders has benefited from not being the target of negative Trump attacks.
The Clinton campaign’s strategy is to keep the pressure on Trump, hoping that by not holding back they will get under his “thin skin” and force him to make errors when he responds.
When including superdelegates, her lead is substantial – 2,323 to Mr Sanders’ 1,547.
Primary season is wrapping up. He exuded confidence that Clinton would be way ahead of Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, during the general elections. But if Sanders loses California, he’s likely to face pressure to drop out.
The other states holding nominating contests on June 7 are New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Both Sanders and Hillary Clinton will be in California leading up to Tuesday’s primary. “Sanders to do the same”, Clinton told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on “State of the Union”.
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Though Sanders’ chances of winning the nomination now rest entirely in the hands of party members and elected officials, he said the current system is unfair and that he’ll work to change the future Democratic nominating process. “I think Obama’s hurting them”, Trump said.
