Speaking at a rally in California late Tuesday, Sanders was defiant that he would remain in the race despite the “steep hill” he faced. When top Democratic Party leaders pressured Sanders to denounce the night of chair throwing and alleged death threats he responded with defiance, terming some complaints “nonsense” and reminding the party: “Millions of Americans are outraged at establishment politics”. Supporters argued that party leadership had rigged the results of the convention in favour of Mrs Clinton. Sanders says in Carson, Calif., that he managed to do well in Kentucky even though the state does not allow independents to vote in the Democratic primary.
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Mrs Clinton remains on track to clinch the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination but she is trying to avoid ending the primary season with a string of losses. The billionaire businessman picked up nine delegates earlier Tuesday in Guam, which held its territorial convention in March, and had 1,143 delegates heading into the OR contest – fewer than 100 delegates short of the 1,237 he needs to clinch the nomination.
That emboldens Mr. Sanders’s argument-that he is a better Democratic candidate against Mr. Trump.
“If you have two candidates who are talking about middle class issues and they have stylistic differences, they have different personalities and records, those are important”.
“Let me be as clear as I can be”, Sanders said, “We’re going to take our fight into the convention”. FILE – In this May 15, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign stop in Louisville, Ky.
When asked Wednesday if she was concerned about Sanders’ response, Sen. But she says she wanted to “vote for the things I believed in, and then vote for Hillary in the general election”.
A Trump adviser told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the campaign was hoping to appeal to Sanders supporters in the general election. Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes told CNN that Clinton was the “unofficial victor”, but the Associated Press said the race was too close to call. They engaged in violent outbursts at a party convention in Nevada last weekend when they felt they were short-changed in the number of national convention delegates that had been awarded to Sanders to represent the western state. Still, she has struggled shake Sanders, most recently losing to him Tuesday in Oregon’s primary.
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Sanders has said that regardless of the tally, he will try to convince superdelegates to switch from backing Clinton to supporting his bid. At some point between now and the final moments of the Democratic national convention, he will. The question is whether his followers will be able to keep Clinton’s feet to the fire after his candidacy ends.
