While those watching the results in Puerto Rico focused on their impact on the race for the Democratic nomination, the focus of many voters on the island was its ongoing economic crisis.
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Hillary Clinton may have won the Democratic presidential nomination even before the polls close Tuesday in California, three time zones to the west of New Jersey.
A blowout win Saturday in the U.S. Virgin Islands left Clinton just 60 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination.
The other states holding nominating contests on June 7 are New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has won the party caucus in the US Virgin Islands, ABC News reports.
Puerto Rico, which holds its primary Sunday, has 60 pledged delegates and seven super-delegates available, with five of these superdelegates already backing Clinton. In both cases, delegates will be awarded proportionally to candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton based on the results.
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he will fight for the Democratic nomination for president at the convention in July.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows Clinton at 49 percent to Sanders 47 percent, findings that are within the survey’s statistical margin of error.
“That is called an anointment process, not a democratic process with a small or large d”, Sanders said on Saturday.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump jabbed at one another in separate TV appearances Sunday as she accused him of “bizarre rants” and “outright lies”, and described him as “temperamentally unfit” for the White House.
“I loved it. I was waiting for that”, said Leslie Milke, 56, of Woodland Hills, a professor at Los Angeles Mission College, who saw Clinton. He added: “If he wins California and a lot of states, he’ll want to make a closing argument to the superdelegates”. “¡Gracias a la Isla del Encanto por esta victoria!” tweeted Clinton, thanking the Island of Enchantment, a Puerto Rico is known, for her victory.
Sanders said he could persuade numerous several hundred super delegates to change their allegiance to Clinton in support of his campaign. She recalled a summer interning at an Oakland law firm in 1971 when she and Bill Clinton were first dating, along with some “really wonderful memories”.
Sanders said by the end of the primaries on June 14 neither candidate would have enough pledged delegates to declare victory and would be dependent upon superdelegates to reach the magic number.
When including superdelegates, her lead is substantial – 2,323 to Mr Sanders’ 1,547.
Clinton needs 70 delegates to clinch the nomination; 694 are up for grabs Tuesday. She has 1769 pledged delegates who must back her, while Sanders has 1501.
For much of American history, political parties, including Democrats, relied on nominating conventions dominated by party bosses or power brokers who cut deals and hand-picked each party’s presidential nominee.
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What Donald Trump wanted to say is that the United States’ allies from Europe, Asia and the Middle east should actually pay more in exchange for being helped with defense, according to CBS News.
