Democrats distribute delegates proportionately in all states, so the only way for Sanders to close Clinton’s delegate lead is to win all future contests by huge margins and convince many superdelegates – party leaders and elected officials free to support either candidate – to switch their votes to him, even in states Clinton won.
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Sanders’ worst sin is the way he’s escalated his rhetoric against Clinton to devastating levels since losing big to her in the northeastern primaries.
“I think we can pull off one of the great political upsets in the history of the United States and in fact, become the nominee for the democratic party”, Says Senator Sanders.
This week really could be decisive for Donald Trump and potentially the last stand for the #NeverTrump movement.
Clinton will begin her day Thursday meeting privately with politically influential black pastors in Los Angeles, then attend a fundraiser hosted by Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, a Mexican immigrant, before the college rally. “But I knew that he had won because it matters how many delegates you have, whether it’s 60 or 300”, Clinton told supporters at the California African American Museum.
Clinton’s decision to stay in the race for as long as she did then has made it tricky for her to call on Sanders to drop out now.
Trump has repeatedly accused the Democratic party of being unfair to Sanders.
State delegates Loyd Dussault, Sr., and Barbara Garland both of Berwick, Maine, review rules and regulations after checking in at the state Democratic convention, Friday, May 6, 2016, in Portland, Maine.
“These caucuses are designed for candidates who want to be delegates to organize”.
The Sanders campaign promises it has been running an aggressive campaign to peel superdelegates from her, but it appears to have paid little dividend. I know Great Britain very well. “They’re wrong”, Sanders said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from New Albany, Indiana. “The convention will be a contested contest”, he said. Bernie Sanders. Without her marriage to former president Bill Clinton, Hillary wouldn’t have run for president twice.
“Someone put up a list of the superdelegates and a person from Rhode Island posted a response that basically said, ‘They should all be assassinated, ‘” Bickford said. His campaign, he said “is a political revolution”.
“Right now as I’ve said many times, Steve, I think that a Donald presidency would be a disaster for this country”, he said.
Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, will reprise the role he’s played in past contests, campaigning in places where his connection to working-class voters could provide a lift to a Democratic candidate. While the open race to succeed the retiring GOP Sen.
Under fire from Sanders supporters, Clinton surrogates have cited the joint fundraising effort and the need to help down ballot Democrats as a reason Clinton headlines top-dollar fundraisers. But it would pretty much take a miracle for him to surge ahead of Clinton as the nominee of a party with which Sanders, a longtime independent, still seems uncomfortable.
OR and Kentucky vote next on May 17, and OR also presents an opportunity for Sanders to cash in on the overwhelmingly white, progressive electorate as he did with other Northwestern states.
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Clinton will have to keep a rearguard for the primary fight while engaging the general election battle.
