Bernie Sanders – the clear victor in OR – by less than one-half of 1 percent. After months when the story of the 2016 presidential campaign focused on divided Republicans, Democrats are now showcasing divisions in their ranks.
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Bernie Sanders should be ashamed at the behavior of his supporters at the Nevada state Democratic convention last week.
Trump, who has all but secured his party’s nomination, has turned his focus to November, outlining to Reuters on Tuesday proposals including scrapping financial regulation and the Paris climate accords.
As Clinton lays the groundwork for the general election now, she’s also ramping up her attacks against the man she’s most likely to run against: Donald Trump. There’s a lot of upside and little downside – given that it would probably take an epic collapse on Clinton’s part to for Sanders to overcome her delegate lead. Or are Democratic leaders being too hard on him? They’re anxious that as the primary process nears its end, Sanders may resist the graceful exit that Democrats expect of him and instead heed advisers and supporters pressing him to maintain the fight, perhaps all the way to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia in July.
Boxer tells CNN she feared for her physical safety.
Some Democrats, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow of MI said. We have blocked Clinton from any possible win and will be taking our candidacy for Sanders with a smile at the contested convention in July. “So I’m not anxious”, he said. “They’re supposed to exercise independent judgment about who they think can lead the party forward to victory”. This number helps to give legitimacy to Clinton’s campaign in the face of Sanders’ populist message. And he’s optimistic that Sanders and Clinton will join together for the fall campaign.
“Yet another state we would’ve won if everyone could vote”, wrote another supporter on Reddit.
Increasingly, Sanders’ most passionate supporters claim that the primary has been rigged.
Sanders is pushing back against accusations that his supporters almost came to blows with Clinton backers last weekend in Nevada.
But Sanders’ campaign signaled that it would press the debate issue, and his campaign noted that the campaigns agreed in January to hold a debate in May in California.
Reid and Sanders have discussed Sanders’ Senate future and advancing the 74-year-old, democratic socialist’s progressive ideals.
More Democrats urged Sanders on Wednesday to take a stronger stand against his supporters’ uprising in Nevada over the delegate selection process.
“This is not good in terms of the general because it means that both the party elite and the evidence from OR suggests the electorate are not coming together behind him very quickly”, said Jim Moore, political science professor and director of the Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation at Pacific University in Forest Grove.
This is why at this point the best thing for Sanders may be that he loses solidly in California and New Jersey on June 8, making it clear to his followers – and perhaps to the candidate himself – that he lost the nomination fair and square. That irritates Clinton supporters on two levels – by suggesting that the voters got it wrong, and by dismissing the judgment of the sort of elected leaders whom any president would need to pass an agenda.
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“Well”, she said, “The voters have to determine that”.
