It’s been fun and healthy for democracy to watch Millennials argue with their parents and quarrel with their peers over why Sanders is better than rival Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
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Sanders is giving no sign of any intention to give up, and he remaining in the race might even be to Clinton’s benefit should she win the nomination.
He added of Sanders: “He’s taking the contest all the way to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia”. Out of 712 superdelegates, Clinton reportedly leads Sanders 467 to 26. As of March 16, Clinton only has 1139 delegates to Sanders’ 825.
The race was called on Thursday and Clinton won Missouri.
One man explained: “I don’t believe Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton really care about the American people”. Clinton may still win the general election with a smaller number of young voters, but in a competitive race it could actually affect her ability to win the swing states.
OK, so the President won’t endorse any candidate in the Democratic primaries, but in our book, all these declarations he made about Hillary Clinton made it obvious that she’s the candidate he wants to see in his spot, starting with 2017. The campaign noted that its pledged delegate lead of more than 300 is almost twice as large as any that Barack Obama held over Clinton in the 2008 primary.
But this independent interest has diminished for fear of splitting a vote, as Trump’s presidential campaign went from late-night-show joke material into a frighteningly real possibility.
Most voters already say a choice between Trump and Clinton is not one they are particularly excited about. “Barring some nearly unforeseen event or eruption of new information we haven’t seen before, I believe the pathway for him to get the majority of delegates is very, very hard and the window of opportunity is rapidly closing”, he said.
“We think now that we are in the west, maybe the most progressive, where we are going to have elections not only here but in Utah, Idaho and we’re heading further in a couple of months to California and then to Washington state and then to OR we think the environment is a little friendlier for us”.
“I am extremely proud that in state after state we are winning the votes of working people”, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, said.
The poll found Texas Sen. She does need to do a better job making her case to Sanders’ supporters. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich according to the poll released by Emerson College.
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Ilya Sheyman, the group’s executive director, in a statement Thursday said voters “will not allow Democratic Party insiders to determine the outcome of this election”.
