Top national advisers to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders worked together Saturday as some 300 Democrats’ opened their state convention in Wyoming following a raucous Nevada convention.
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But he’s staying away from criticizing his rival over her private email use during her tenure as secretary of state, continuing to downplay an issue that Republicans have used heavily against Clinton.
“She in fact added an event here in Oakland today because the race is tight”, Welker said. But she is campaigning hard to avoid embarrassing defeats closing out the primaries. “She wants to head into the convention on solid ground and to do that, she has to win here, not so much necessarily for the math but for the momentum”. Sanders is now trailing behind Clinton and is banking on the California primary on 7 June.
Donald Trump is now declining to debate Bernie Sanders, saying “it seems inappropriate that I would debate the second place finisher”.
The letter-addressed to the co-chairs of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee-argued that their support of Clinton would cause Malloy and Frank to “exclude meaningful input from supporters of Senator Sanders’ candidacy”.
“I think we’ll get very high ratings”.
The two men had been kicking around the idea of a debate since Trump appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel said that Sanders had passed along an invitation for Trump to debate him.
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Clinton tied with Trump.
Groaning and shaking his fists in frustration, the senator from Vermont told HBO’s Bill Maher he “would have loved to” debate the presumptive Republican presidential nominee before the California primary on June 7. But a strong performance in California may boost Mr Sanders’ case that superdelegates – party leaders and elected officials not formally bound to any candidate – should switch their allegiance to him on the basis of perceived electability against Republican Donald Trump. “And an incredible number of small individual campaign contributions is how we’ll fund our campaign and it is how we will win the national election”.
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Sanders and his supporters have complained for months that the Democratic Party has been tilted against his insurgent bid. “And he would not only be an embarrassment, but a real danger to the entire world if he were to become president”.
