Anointed the presumptive nominee after winning IN on Tuesday and driving his closest rival, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, from the race, the 69-year-old NY billionaire planned to set up a vice presidential selection committee and step up efforts to seek unity among a wider group of Republicans ahead of the November 8 election.
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When counting both pledged delegates and superdelegates, Clinton’s lead over Sanders is 808 delegates. To reverse his fortunes, Sanders has to prove the polls wrong.
To have a shot at overtaking Clinton in pledged delegates, Sanders would need a series of landslide victories in the few remaining contests, increasing his vote share to about 75 percent, on average, according to the Times analysis.
He disagreed that he wanted to drop out, and rejected the idea that criticising Clinton’s record on issues like trade, campaign finance, and the Iraq war would support Trump. Already, aides say, a number of Republicans have privately told Clinton and her team they plan to break party ranks and support her as soon as Trump formally captures his party’s nomination.
Sanders would need to win more than 82 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates through June if he hopes to clinch the nomination; now, Sanders has been winning just 39 percent.
On the campaign trail, Sanders has hammered Hillary Clinton repeatedly about immigration.
“Remember, I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak”, she said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union”. “You’ve got the Central Valley, people are starving for water, they’re pissed off in California”. Once I start on Hillary, you’ll see the numbers change.
“As of today, we have now won 17 primaries and caucuses”. Is Bernie Sanders right to stick with it until the end or is he just prolonging the inevitable? “There is nothing more I would like than to take on and defeat Donald Trump, someone who must never become president of this country”.
Devine’s position may be the democratically defensible approach, but it in no way delivers Sanders the nomination. ” The picture used with the story was a photoshopped version of Bernie as a zombie from The Walking Dead”. “And I think we can make that case”.
Hillary Clinton greets the audience during a campaign stop in Athens, Ohio, on Tuesday.
“We have an uphill battle in front of us, but I think we have a path to a victory.though it is a narrow path”, Senator Bernie Sanders predicted. This created the trending hashtag on Twitter, #DropOutHillary which gathered over 100,000 tweets.
When Jeff Weaver argued that superdelegates should elevate Sanders, even if that means overriding the primary results and defying the will of the voters, it was considered pretty controversial. Clinton should take notice that the Democratic electorate is fractured.
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That means it’s nearly certain that Trump will face Clinton in the general election this fall.
