State party chair Jim Larson, the party’s vice chair, Governor Steve Bullock and Senator Jon Tester all plan to support Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential candidate.
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“But defeating Donald Trump can not be our only goal”, Sanders said, pointing to his 1,900 delegates at next month’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. However, he did pledge to do everything he can to defeat Trump. Jurado said that he plans to join a group of protests outside of the Democratic National Convention come July in Philadelphia.
“Hillary is the most qualified person on the ballot to unite our nation at a time when unsafe rhetoric threatens to divide us”, Tester said via email, adding he looked forward to working with her to create jobs, strengthen the middle class, keep the country safe and invest in education and infrastructure to advance the country.
Sanders’ believers do not share these doubts.
“During this campaign, we won more than 12 million votes”. Gabbard said she had several reasons for hesitating to back Clinton, but her biggest reason was Clinton’s penchant for getting involved in unnecessary wars. Hillary Clinton is the presumptive nominee.
Superdelegates are Democratic Party elected officials and insiders who are free to support the presidential candidate of their choosing at the party’s national convention, regardless of a state’s voting results.
His proposals to introduce free universal healthcare and free college education, to reform a campaign finance system rigged in favour of big donors, to overhaul the Wall Street banks and to restore social, economic and racial equality are hardly radical in a western European context but in the USA his policies amounted to socialism.
He said he looked forward to additional talks between the two campaigns to ensure that his supporters voices are heard and the convention adopts the most progressive platform in the partys history. Sanders swept Washington’s Democratic caucuses.
According to the CBS News poll, Clinton leads Trump 43% to 37% – numbers that are down significantly for both candidates from a couple months ago, when they garnered closer to 50% and 40%, respectively.
Sanders concluded his speech with a call for his supporters to seek “political engagement” at the state and local level, either running for office or volunteering in the campaigns of Democrats in order to oust local Republican officeholders. Undoubtedly, this statement is also in part an inducement to layers of the pseudo left that coalesced around his campaign, many of whom are meeting this weekend in Chicago at the so-called People’s Summit.
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Sanders’s campaign certainly rattled the establishment and raised doubts around the negative view many hold of Clinton but his only real upset was his victory in MI.
