Clinton won the February statewide Nevada caucuses 53-47. But the state party alleged in its letter to the co-chairs of the DNC Rules and By-laws committee, “The explosive situation arose in large part because a portion of the community of Sanders delegates arrived at the Nevada Democratic State Convention believing itself to be a vanguard intent upon sparking a street-fight rather than attending an orderly political party process”.
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Clinton had about 30 more people in the room – but almost 60 Sanders delegates were rejected for not being registered Democrats by the May 1 deadline. But the main thing that has to happen for Bernie Sanders is that he is going to have to convince superdelegates that he has the polling, he has the momentum and he has enough delegates for them to switch their loyalty to give him the nomination.
More people are scared than hopeful about Clinton becoming president as well.
Trump has focused his general election criticisms at Clinton, but while he has at times praised Sanders for his campaign against the front-runner, Trump still sometimes goes after Sanders, too.
Sanders lavished attention on OR, visiting three different cities in the run-up to the primary: Portland, Springfield and Salem.
Trump won the sole GOP contest in Oregon.
But as the party has shifted to the left during the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton repeatedly found herself forced to repudiate key pieces of her husband’s legacy during her primary campaign. But he’s only been able to accomplish that in eight contests, and he hasn’t hit that level of support since March.
Kentucky’s Democratic primary has 55 delegates at stake. Bernie Sanders holds a rally tonight in California. In a sign of his strength, Sanders secured the endorsement of Sen. Pat Spearman, a Clinton supporter who said she saw an elderly woman hit with a bottle amid the ruckus.
“I think that we will have in this general election about as clear a contrast as you can imagine when it comes to this issue”, Clinton told a crowd of about 500, adding that Trump would be ineffective at the “boring” but important diplomacy that solves crises. Any moves by her campaign to try drive Sanders out could risk angering Democratic voters and end up backfiring.
Clinton only briefly mentioned Sanders at both events, repeating a critique that he did not vote to fund the auto industry bailout.
The Sanders campaign hasn’t responded to a request for comment.
“That is so cute!” marveled Clinton, who was accompanied by Kentucky’s secretary of state, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
What if superdelegates were treated like pledged delegates, divided up proportionally, based on the popular vote in each state? He may well be the proverbial “lesser of the two evils” in that sense, and yet be the more unsafe President to have in the White House. “Bernie Sanders, it turns out, is the strongest candidate”, Sanders said.
Ed Schultz: There is a real attitude amongst the Sanders’ campaign right now that they are not even thinking about getting out. Still, the primary is likely to bring the billionaire ever closer to the 1,237 delegates he needs to formally clinch the nomination. Why should a group of several hundred party regulars be in a position to potentially limit or overturn the will of the voters?
Tensions flared again later in the day, when the results of the final delegate report were announced showing a 33-delegate lead in Clinton’s favor in the early evening.
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“Now ask yourself: how hard would it be for America’s secretary of state to negotiate with a Muslim leader if someone running for president – or heaven forbid were president – was spending a lot of his time denigrating the religion of the people we had to deal with in a flashpoint region?”
