After putting together an impressive string of victories through the middle portion of the campaign calendar, Clinton has blunted that momentum after dealing him a lopsided defeat in her adopted home state NY last week, and in four of five Northeastern states on Tuesday.
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As Trump has closed in on winning the Republican presidential nomination, Clinton has started to hit the billionaire businessman with more frequency and fervor, routinely devoting nearly all of the attack lines in her stump speech to the GOP front-runner.
At campaign stops across the state on Tuesday, Clinton signaled a desire to grow manufacturing jobs in the state, while her husband, former President Bill Clinton, looked to outflank the Sanders on his signature issue of income inequality with a slew of policy proposals.
“We have had a very large staff, which was created to deal with 50 states in this country; 40 of the states are now behind us”, he said.
“So if people are only campaigning in the purple states they are only campaigning to those swing state voters and not caring about what the whole country needs”, Sanders campaign volunteer Nicholas Engel told CBS News.
Earlier Wednesday, a Sanders adviser told CNN that the layoffs were a natural progression for the campaign considering that they already had staff in California, which votes on June 7. But if he continues to fight, he can ensure that the Democratic platform includes strong representation of the ideas driving his campaign. He gained 109 delegates, totaling 954.Feingold said he wouldn’t speculate on whether Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. He did not specify how many people are being let go or what percentage of Sanderss sprawling staff they represent.Its something weve been talking about for quite a while now, Briggs said.
Sen. Sanders isn’t gearing up for a general election campaign. The news was first reported by The New York Times and Politico Wednesday. She won Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, while Sanders won Rhode Island.
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As for Hillary Clinton, she now has 91 percent of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination, and at her current pace would do so in the final set of primaries before the Democratic convention.
