Going into Tuesday’s spate of primaries, Hillary Clinton is now just 23 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to clinch the nomination.
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Clinton has picked up 36 delegates from Puerto Rico so far, while Bernie Sanders has so far picked up 20. Clinton is likely to pass the magic number of 2,383 delegates soon after the polls close in New Jersey.
According to top aides, Obama has been “personally offended” by Trump’s presidential campaign. On Wednesday, he’s due in New York City to address donors at Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Clinton’s home state. She is expected to clinch the party nomination on Tuesday when voters in six states cast ballots. Bernie Sanders. The self-declared democratic socialist confounded expectations that he was little more than a fringe candidate and mounted his own crusade against the political establishment that electrified the party’s progressive base. “By the time he’s finished, nobody’s going to be left in this country that he is going to have exempted from insults”. Clinton has won 54 percent of pledged delegates to date.
Aside from Warren’s anti-Brown diss in Lowell, she spent much of the 15-minute speech on Trump, whom she called a “fraudster-in-chief” and a “small, insecure money-grubber who just doesn’t care about anyone but himself”. She witnessed the late night pressures and the personal burdens of the presidency from a closer vantage point at the side of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, than any other previous nominee. She has also survived multiple political crises by drawing on nearly supernatural resilience and is renowned for her mastery of policy.
Still, she has significant liabilities: Polls show that Clinton, like Trump, is one of the most unpopular presumptive nominees in history. Clinton will counter her own musical event starring Christina Aguilera, Andra Day, John Legend, Ricky Martin, and Stevie Wonder. And Republicans believe her foreign policy record, tainted by her dealings with Libya and Russian Federation while secretary of state, could turn into a huge opening for their candidate.
But the Sanders approach is a long shot not just because most superdelegates prefer Clinton. If Clinton hopes to defeat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in November, she’ll require at least some of Sanders’ backers to come over to her side.
Sanders blasted the superdelegate process Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” in an interview with Jake Tapper.
Field drew huge applause as she asked why Clinton gets accused of not being likable. “It’s like an anointment”.
And he opened up a new attack by bringing up donations that undemocratic foreign governments like Saudi Arabia made to the Clinton Foundation charity. Her deep unpopularity among Republicans has pushed many leery of Trump to nevertheless embrace his campaign.
Though she marched into her second presidential primary campaign as an overwhelming favorite, Clinton could not shake Sanders until its final days.
This year, Clinton wants to focus on how her groundbreaking achievement is symbolic of the kind of change she wants to effect as president, aides say.
When Clinton launched her campaign last April, she did so largely unopposed, having scared off more formidable challengers by locking down much of the party’s organizational and fundraising infrastructure.
The timeline is expected to hold regardless of how Clinton rival Sen.
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She was able to clinch the nomination, however, on her strong performance in the Deep South and strength in big states like NY and Pennsylvania along with her advantage among superdelegates.
