Sanders said he would move staff members to California, where he hopes to score a final big win on June 7. You have now viewed your allowance of free articles.
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The former Secretary of State said the Democratic party should unite in Philadelphia, where she is expecting to accept the presidential nomination in the coming months.
“We don’t need people right now in Connecticut”, Sanders told The New York Times. “This campaign is going to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform”.
He continued, “And our job, whether we win or whether we do not win, is to transform not only our country, but the Democratic Party – to open the doors of the Democratic Party to working people and young people and senior citizens in a way that does not exist today”.
Clinton needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination, and now has 2,168 delegates, including more than 500 “super-delegates”, against Sanders’s 1,401.
“We want to win as many delegates as we can, so we do not need workers now in states around the country”, Sanders told The Times.
The layoffs, first reported by Politico, were being cast by the Vermont senator’s campaign as part of an effort to pare back now that most of the primaries and caucuses are over. Clinton added more delegates even as fewer delegates were left for Sanders to mount his comeback.
Clinton’s allies note that Republican Donald Trump has been co-opting Sanders’ pitch against Clinton, which the businessman acknowledged Wednesday.
Bernie Sanders campaign is trimming the fat.
“The only card she has is the woman’s card”, Trump said, which seemed to prompt a subtle side-eye from New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s over”.
If Clinton manages an even wider advantage among women than Obama, Democrats say she may get a boost in states like Pennsylvania and Colorado, casting them out of Trump’s reach while allowing her to compete in GOP-leaning territory like Georgia and North Carolina.
If the media is smart, they will stop asking Bernie Sanders questions about Donald Trump. Sen. They were there to talk about two bills that will not get a vote this session.
At least some in the Sanders camp have signaled that changes are in the works. He has demanded that Clinton release the transcripts of her lucrative private speeches to Wall Street, a point he made in IN, and has critiqued Clinton on other issues like trade and the war in Iraq.
The exchange highlights Trump’s perilous standing among female voters who could help propel Clinton to the White House. In his speech, he criticized Democratic front-runner Clinton anew for her handling of the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
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“It’s something we’ve been talking about for quite a while now”, Briggs said.
