“I think it will be lively”, Clinton said, a nod to the fact that the race between Clinton and Sanders has grown more acrimonious of late. The New York Times reported last week on the campaign’s strategy headed into Super Tuesday in early March.
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Although Clinton is leading in pledged delegates, McKinnon’s Clinton pulled the “underdog” card following Sanders’ winning streak.
“Later tonight, I’m going to take in the Broadway show that’s got all of NYC abuzz, Chicago”, she said. But he has been in the situation before this primary season, turning a double-digit deficit in Wisconsin into a 13-point win in just two weeks before the vote.
Next, the race heads to NY, where both candidates have strong ties: Sanders was born and raised in Brooklyn and Clinton has been a NY resident since 2000.
Nick Merrill, Clinton’s traveling press secretary, said Clinton did not misspeak and her statement reflected her articulating her desire to “raise the federal minimum wage nationally to $12” while she also “remains supportive of local efforts to go to $15 on the state and local level, and wants to see that happen beyond New York, California and Seattle and the handful of other places that are phasing it in already”. In an interview with conservative radio host Mike Gallagher, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, pushed back against Trump’s claims, saying the convention system used in Colorado is “not an affront to the people of Colorado”.
Trump’s accusations come as he seeks to outmaneuver Cruz in local state gatherings where the delegates who will attend the summer convention are being chosen. A Monmouth University poll showing Clinton ahead 51 percent to 39 percent also indicated that Clinton may be losing her grip on non-white voters, a demographic she had dominated in the primaries to this point.
Later Friday, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” that Sanders’ remarks “obviously was not a gender-related thing”.
Does Ted Cruz regret his “New York values” slam against Donald Trump?
“I get a little bit upset when one of the great, horrific tragedies in modern American history – unspeakable – becomes a political issue”, Sanders said Sunday.
“I am very proud of New York and I was with (Gov. Andrew) Cuomo when he signed the bill raising the minimum wage in New York”, Clinton said.
But the victory over Hillary Clinton will not ensure Sanders more delegates. Nationally, however, he trails Clinton badly in the superdelegate count.
Trump still has a narrow path to clinching the Republican nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7, but he has little room for error.
Trump has a similar lead in Pennsylvania where he clinches 48% to Kasich’s 22 percent and Cruz’s 20 percent, according to the Fox poll of likely Republican primary voters in Pennsylvania.
Of the 34 delegates Cruz won, only 30 are technically pledged to his campaign; four are party officials who are unpledged but have promised to support Cruz, and the campaign placed them on its slate.
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With the proportional allocation of delegates, that’s looking increasingly hard, even with Sanders sweeping the past seven states.
