With primary elections taking place in other states, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is heading to West Virginia for a rally.
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Most Sanders supporters would vote for Clinton should she win the nomination.
Responding to questions at his weekly news conference Mr. Reid declined to suggest Mr. Sanders should drop out or cede the ground to Hillary Clinton, who’s expected to post a strong showing in primaries Tuesday in Maryland, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
“It is incumbent upon Secretary Clinton to reach out, not only to my supporters but to all of the American people”, Sanders said, “with an agenda that they believe will represent the interests of working families, lower income people, the middle class, those of us who are concerned about the environment and not just big-money interests”.
Sanders sounded like an extortionist Monday night when he said Clinton, if she won the nomination, would have to earn his supporters’ votes by embracing single-payer health care, free college tuition and a carbon tax – all things Clinton rejected in her (successful) campaign against Sanders. Hillary Clinton is trying to leave Bernie Sanders behind, but he’s not about to take the hint.
With this driving Sanders, there is every reason for him to continue his campaign into the convention in spite of what the delegate math says. “It was, you know, like a One Direction [boy band] concert or something”.
According to www.thegreenpapers.com 2,383 delegates out of 4,765 total are needed at the Democratic National Convention (July 25-28 in Philadelphia) to nominate a presidential candidate for the party.
Bernie Sanders faces a tough path to the Democratic nomination, which he can only secure by winning almost every remaining primary contest.
“Our campaign has now completed 80 percent of the primaries and caucuses”, Briggs said in a statement. Hours later, he was hitting her in his stump speeches and issued a release detailing key differences with Clinton on trade policy and her campaign’s reliance on big donors.
A pair of Clinton fundraisers held by actor George Clooney this month, at which tickets went for as much as $353,000 per couple, is not included in that total, but were reported by Deadline Hollywood to have raised an additional $15 million.
On Saturday, Sanders’ chief campaign adviser Tad Devine told National Public Radio that the campaign could “reevaluate” its criticisms of Clinton’s relations with the financial industry after this Tuesday’s primaries, and on the Sunday morning television program “Meet the Press”, Sanders admitted that he had “a narrow path” to the nomination and pledged that he would support Clinton against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
“It would be close to a miracle for it to happen, but you do have massive states like California”, said David Mason, a 42-year-old Lafayette photographer.
Sanders also was holding a rally Wednesday night at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Some, though, said they’d back the Green Party’s Jill Stein. These are workers who wonder why corporations earning record-high profits (and paying obscenely low taxes on those profits) can not afford to pay them a living wage for their work. She went to high school in suburban Chicago at the same time as Clinton, she said.
“I’ve been thinking about this a lot: What is Clinton going to do when the 40% of progressives and independents walk away?”
In an interview on CNN Tuesday, he said, “We’re in this until the end”.
Other Sanders supporters, though, said they’re too afraid of Trump to back the Republican.
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This, in turn, caused Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver to accuse the Clinton campaign and her supporters of using “language reserved for traitors to our country”.
