Sanders holds an average of 41.3 percent support to Clinton’s 51 percent in the state, according to RealClearPolitics.
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“There are six states remaining and I hope by the end of this nominating process, we will win at least half or more of the states in our country”, Sanders said.
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.
Clinton did not say she had yet spoken to Sanders but said there had been “conversations between people who know me well and support him”.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton appear to have split victories in the OR and Kentucky primaries Tuesday night.
Senator Sanders said he plans to take his fight past the June 7 primary contests in California and New Jersey, and to the Democratic National Convention in July.
Sanders is negotiating with Democratic Party leaders who are eager to form a united front and bring the Vermont senator’s supporters into the fold so as to enable the presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, to focus her efforts on defeating the Republican pick, Donald Trump.
Both candidates are likely to spend significant time in California over the next two weeks, and Sanders will need to secure as many delegates as he can get.
The delegates can pick their candidate in a brokered or contested convention if none of the nominees have a party’s majority of delegates heading into the convention. It’s what I’ve said all along.
Vice President Joe Biden gently chastised Sanders, saying he should be more aggressive in speaking out if his supporters behave as badly as they did in Nevada, but expressing confidence the party would unify. Trump rehashed old accusations against Bill Clinton during an interview Wednesday with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity.
Tweet from Progressive blogger Josh Marshall, who has re-evaluated his thinking on who is responsible for Sanders’ for fanning his supporters’ ire at the Democratic Party establishment.
Superdelegate Lupita Maurer came out for Sanders after his win on Tuesday, and was delighted to do so.
Pledged delegates may be allowed to choose any candidate in subsequent rounds of voting, USA.gov says.
On Wednesday, Lange said she wanted Sanders to acknowledge the threats, and apologize.
Yeah, Bernie may have taken the Beaver state, “I am getting to like the West Coast!” “I’m 3 million votes ahead of him, and I have an insurmountable lead in pledge delegates”, she told CNN in her hometown of Chicago.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had said earlier in the day that he was confident Sanders would condemn the violence.
