Hillary Clinton edged closer to the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination Saturday, winning the Guam caucuses.
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Bernie Sanders, who is still battling with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president, spoke with Alan about the “uphill fight” ahead, why a Donald Trump presidency would be “a disaster for America”, why he’s glad President Obama has “stayed out” of the Democratic race for the nomination, and Trump’s assertion Sen. He and his supporters have also often criticized the role of party officials and insiders called superdelegates.
Currently, Clinton has 1,683 pledged delegates while Sanders has 1,362. “All that is just to protect the elected officials so they don’t have to go face to face with an average person that’s going to be a delegate to the convention”.
To clinch the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs 2,383 delegates. But if the Vermont Democrat doesn’t win the nomination, he said he wants to make sure to tell his supporters not to vote for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“I will not allow them to be silenced at the Democratic National Convention”, Sanders wrote of his supporters in a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Clinton meanwhile won caucuses in the US territory of Guam 60-40, picking up four of the 7 delegates there.
But that system is part of the national party rules.
Sanders has often said if superdelegates were stripped from the total count, the gulf between him and Clinton would not be as wide – even so, Clinton holds a lead of 321 pledged delegates heading into the remaining primaries that will take place between May 7 and June 14.
Almost all of Delaware’s 16 delegates to the national GOP convention in Cleveland are committed to supporting Donald Trump even if the convention’s nominee-picking process goes past a first ballot, Trump campaign chairman Rob Arlett said last month.
So far, 523 have publicly endorsed Clinton and 39 have endorsed Sanders.
Sanders won Washington’s caucus on 26 March, taking 25 of the 34 delegates awarded that day. That leaves 152 still uncommitted.
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Peggy Schaffer is one of those super delegates, but says her vote won’t be decided until she gets to Philadelphia in July. But the upcoming races in West Virginia (37 delegates), Kentucky (61), and OR (73) favor Sanders.
