After a Monday morning rally in Springfield, Hillary Clinton will “lay out her plans to raise wages and break down the barriers that hold too many Bay Staters back” at a noon get-out-the-vote event at Old South Meeting House in Downtown Crossing.
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Clinton leads Sanders 544 to 85 among delegates and super-delegates (party leaders and elected officials) who will formally choose the party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention in July.
Clinton tops Sanders handily as the candidate who would be more effective at solving the country’s problems and can better handle the responsibilities of being commander-in-chief, but Sanders fares better than Clinton on honesty.
A lot of those Southern states “are states that we expect to do well in”, said Jen Palmieri, the campaign’s communications director.
Clinton made her oft used called for “love and kindness” at the two church stops, but did so with a more political bent by subtly knocking Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, in front of the primarily black audiences. It was a state he should have won big – and a state he did win big.
“For Republicans who are not happy at the prospect of a (billionaire and Republican front-runner Donald) Trump nomination, there’s still a little bit of time left but the clock is still ticking”, said William Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. But the Florida senator warned Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation that if Trump does win the nomination “it will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover”. Eight percent support some other candidate. She won the support of almost nine in 10 black voters, crucial Democratic backers who had abandoned her for Mr Obama in 2008.
Democrats will be voting in 11 states and American Samoa, with 859 delegates at stake. “But with the amount of high-dollar fundraisers she’s held this month, it’s hard to see how we possibly raised more than Secretary Clinton in February”.
According to recent polls, Sanders is expected to beat Clinton by a wide margin in his home state of Vermont. If the minority vote in those states breaks in the same way it did last Saturday, Mr Sanders could be in for another painful night. Independent voters could be a wildcard.
“Our supporters are a firewall protecting Bernie from the Clinton campaign’s wealthiest donors and super PACs”, Weaver said. These states have large numbers of African-Americans. Clinton has taken wins in Iowa, Nevada, and now in SC.
Sanders, expecting defeat in SC on Saturday, left the state even before voting was finished and turned his attention to some of the states that vote in next Tuesday’s delegate-rich contests.
Sanders has built a massive network of small donors and has the money to stay in the race deep into the spring.
Sanders, however, continues to point out his differences with Clinton, pointing to his unwillingness to have a super PAC, his opposition to the Iraq War and his rejection of trade agreements he says have led to job losses.
Clinton struck a populist tone as she spoke too, backed by younger voters behind her on stage – a demographic she’s struggled to capture over Sanders.
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