Sanders’ problem: Winning over Clinton’s superdelegates

Under the new rules, Sanders, who won the ME caucus with 64 percent of the vote, would have three superdelegates to Clinton’s two.

Luis Miranda, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, said “because the party’s platform is a statement of our values, the DNC is committed to an open, inclusive and representative process”. He’ll follow that with a Monday morning rally at Boardwalk Hall in the state’s most financially troubled city, Atlantic City.

“I do not, and the millions who have supported our campaign will not, have any confidence that either of them will conduct committee proceeding in an even-handed manner”, Sanders wrote in the letter.

Hillary Clinton visited the Los Angeles area for a campaign stop Thursday ahead of California’s June 7 primary, bringing out crowds of both supporters and critics.

Clinton, who has a virtually insurmountable lead over Vermont Sen. Still, Mrs Clinton has now gathered far too many delegates for Mr Sanders to stand a chance of beating her to the finishing line-her ride across the final furlongs to the nomination seem all but a formality.

According to Bloomberg Politics, Clinton now has 2,165 delegates and Sanders is trailing with 1,357 delegates.

Maine Democrats delivered a rebuke to their party’s system of superdelegates on Saturday by adopting a proposal at their state convention to reduce the clout of unpledged elected officials and party insiders.

Just 155 delegates short, Clinton remains on track to clinch the nomination early next month.

“If you’re going to back us into a corner, we’re not going to be happy”, Devine said. She also argued that Sanders has shown momentum and polls well against Trump.

As for Rendell, who also opposes Trump’s candidacy, he jumped to applaud Sanders a day after his loss to Clinton in Pennsylvania.

As noted in his interview, Moore has been an ardent supporter of Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, for many years and simply views Clinton as “better than the alternative”. These delegates are current or former elected officials who are free to vote as they wish in the Democratic National Convention.

“There was a January 24 poll in Minnesota that had us down, I believe, down 34 points”, Dempsey said. Andrew Williams’ proposal to force superdelegates to vote with caucus majorities is, frankly, a little nuts and very un-American.

In other primaries, Sanders was able to pull out a large voting blocs from college towns.

Loudoun County is one of the suburban Virginia swing districts that’s been a good gauge of presidential winners, having backed both Barack Obama and President George W. Bush.

Sanders would need to win 66 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to close the gap. Bernie Sanders in her bid for the nomination, took Trump to task for comments he has made on foreign policy and national security.

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The 67 district-level delegates from Washington had generated some debate on social media, where Sanders supporters questioned why he had not yet received any of those delegates in a state he won big.