Politico’s David Wade put it bluntly but accurately: “We already know Sanders isn’t going to win the Democratic Party’s nomination; Hillary Clinton has amassed more than 92% of the delegates needed to secure the nomination, and she’ll easily pick up the rest”.
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Death threats have been leveled at Nevada’s Democratic Party chairwoman following the chaos that erupted at the state’s convention over the weekend.
The Nevada state party has filed a formal complaint to the Democratic National Committee about the failure of the Sanders campaign to control its own supporters.
Sanders’ supporters booed Sen.
“If the Democratic Party is to be successful in November, it is imperative that all state parties treat our campaign supporters with fairness and the respect that they have earned”, he said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, that was not the case at the Nevada convention”. And after Democratic officials including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada pressed Sanders to denounce the events, Sanders defiantly asserted that his supporters were treated unfairly.
But he remains a factor to be reckoned with, winning primary after primary with an anti-Wall Street, anti-establishment message that has resonated with the young and with white, male working class voters.
In the northwestern state of Oregon, US networks projected Sanders the victor, 53 to 47 percent, half an hour after the polls closed.
“We just won OR, and we’re going to win California”, Sanders told thousands of supporters in Carson, California as he predicted victory in the nation’s largest state, which votes on June 7.
Still, she has struggled shake Sanders, most recently losing to him Tuesday in Oregon’s primary.
Lange says that’s why Clinton won. Thanks to everyone who turned out.
After months of discord within the “Grand Old Party” (GOC), the Democratic Party has now displayed signs that it could have trouble uniting around Mrs Clinton’s candidacy as Mr Sanders ploughs through the end of the primary calendar in mid-June. And although the Sanders campaign isn’t promoting the false idea that the election is – to use Trump’s term – “rigged” against them, it isn’t quashing it, either.
“Let me be as clear as I can be…” With his win in Oregon, Mr Trump now has 1,160 delegates, putting him within 77 delegates of clinching the Republican nomination.
Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky Secretary of State, said, with 99pc of the votes counted, Mrs Clinton was 1,800 votes ahead and only around 700 votes remained to be counted. Security officials shut the convention down when they felt they could no longer guarantee the security of the participants.
Today, we ask Bernie Sanders to more strongly denounce the actions of some of his supporters.
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“There is no excuse for what happened in Nevada, and it is incumbent upon all of us in positions of leadership to speak out”, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said. Still, everything could change if Hillary Clinton’s super delegates, who promised to vote for her, change their mind. And he’s optimistic that Sanders and Clinton will join together for the fall campaign. “Crooked Hillary, who is looking very bad against Crazy Bernie, will lose!”
