However, the support of grassroots Democrats for an outsider who has won 22 state contests and the backing of 12 million voters on a campaign against a “rigged” political system makes conceding defeat to that system hard. “This is our moment to come together”.
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“Despite a night of disappointing losses, Bernie Sanders vowed Tuesday night to continue his campaign and to take his fight all the way to the convention in Philadelphia. We are going to fight hard to win the primary in Washington, DC and then we take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”, Sanders said in the email.
Tuesday was the last major date of the 2016 primary calendar. McCaskill was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Clinton almost two years before Clinton kicked off her 2016 campaign. But he also admitted, “I am pretty good in arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight”.
“I’m going to really begin to pay attention to that now that we’ve wrapped up the primary process”, she said.
Sanders by all accounts has conducted an extraordinary grassroots campaign. She spoke to rival Bernie Sanders on Tuesday evening and said she would continue making the case to his supporters that there is more that unites than divides them.
“Maybe for some policy concessions or so he can play a larger role in deciding what the party will stand for and what the next administration should look like should the Democrats win”, he said. Sanders’ goals, Rendell said, would be best served by dropping out and endorsing the presumptive nominee.
That may have been theoretically possible two months ago, but Clinton has now claimed a majority of pledged delegates that comes with winning nearly four million more popular votes than Sanders. He is not concerned about Democrats coming together amid “bruised feelings”, Obama said, but he is anxious about the “nuts and bolts” of getting people out to vote, especially the young and those with lower incomes. He promised Tuesday night to deliver a “major speech” as early as Monday laying out the case for how Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have perfected what he called the “politics of personal enrichment”.
Morgan Reed, a rafting guide from Mendicino, California, attended the rally and said it was unseemly for the media to call the race for Clinton so close to the start of voting in California, warning that it amounted to “disenfranchising the vote”.
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Earnest says Obama will congratulate Sanders during the meeting.
