They acknowledge they did poorly in the five contests this week, but they say they’re about to start winning and they say senator Sanders, not Hillary Clinton will ultimately get the Democratic nomination. That’s a difference of just three-tenths of a percent and was within the margin of a possible recount, but Sanders said earlier Thursday he wouldn’t ask for that. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has a much bigger lead – 1,614-856.
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Hillary Clinton won Tuesday’s Democratic Primary in Ohio’s victor take-all-contest. In that instance, a recount is warranted, but Sanders said he didn’t want to waste taxpayer money. The Sanders campaign said also scheduled to speak were Dean McGrath, the president of Local 23 of the International Labor Workers Union, and other local labor leaders.
Two days after Missouri’s extremely close primary election, Democrat Bernie Sanders conceded to his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“His focus now is on the second half of the delegate selection process”.
ELVING: And the millennials, as we call them, have been very excited about the Sanders candidacy and about some of the issues he’s raised about income inequality and so on, so it’s an attachment to him.
The president’s remarks came even before Clinton’s string of victories on Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
Democratic candidates must win 2,383 delegates to secure the party’s nomination. “High voter turnout, the Democratic candidate will win”, he said, referring to Donald Trump, the front-runner in the race to pick the Republican nominee for the November presidential election.
“If we can do well there, we can win a lot of delegates”.
Under Democratic Party rules, Devine contended, delegates must “fairly reflect the expressed sentiments of voters who participate in primaries and caucuses”. More voters say they will vote against Clinton and Trump than will vote for them.
However, Earnest said Obama “did not indicate or specify a preference in the race”.
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Rachel, in nearly every poll, not every poll, but nearly every national matchup poll between Sanders and Trump, Clinton and Trump, we do better than Hillary Clinton and sometimes by large numbers. If they are right, they’ll face a showdown with Clinton in her home state of NY on April 19. But he said that while “we know we’ve got a hill to climb”, he was pleased his campaign was able to accumulate more delegates.
