Until, suddenly, she was not, seeming to betray a combination of bewilderment and dismay that instantly went viral on social media, the New York Times reported. “When we were competing in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and all the March 1 states we had a thousand staffers”.
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“They should drop out, because, frankly, they have no path to victory”, Trump said, adding that he has mounted a “tremendously successful campaign” that has beaten “governors, senators, people of great talent and great intellect”.
Five northeastern USA states held primary elections on Tuesday – Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses supporters during a primary night event on April 26, 2016 in Philadelphia after winning the Pennsilvania state primary.
Trump won the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday by more than 35 percentage points over Texas Sen. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in 25 states this year show Clinton won 62 per cent of female voters over Bernie Sanders’ 36 per cent. He said “hundreds of staff members” would be affected by the cuts.
Likewise, Clinton was eager to turn her attention to Trump.
His wife, Joanne, a registered Republican, said she would vote for Mr Sanders if he was the presidential candidate in the autumn, but not Ms Clinton.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is downsizing its field staff, as well as some advance and other workers, an adviser told CNN Wednesday afternoon. The answer will tell us whether Trump has any chance to unify the bulk of the party at all.
And that will tell us whether Trump will be a very weak general election candidate, or a historically terrible one.
Indiana’s May 3 primary will be a key test of the “stop Trump” strategy.
But it shows Clinton would be more than willing to engage directly on matters of gender, seeking to highlight her policy and personality differences with Trump, whose long history of incendiary comments about women already have helped define his candidacy.
Instead, Sanders stuck to comparing and contrasting their records, hitting her for a $12-an-hour minimum wage that falls short of his call for a national minimum $15 wage.
Other Sanders supporters, though, said they’re too afraid of Trump to back the Republican. He needs just 48 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination and avoid a contested convention. For their part, Ted Cruz and John Kasich aren’t doing a very good job of cooperating even though their survival depends upon it.
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“And I know a lot of people would say you can’t say that about a woman because, of course, a woman doesn’t shout, but the way she shouted that message was not – ohh”, Trump said during a separate appearance Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. They have until the first ballot at the convention to decide their vote (and any of the 54 could technically change their minds any time before that first vote).
