Clinton declared victory in the Kentucky primary held the same day, though that race was very close and has not officially been called in her favor.
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“More than halfway through the month of May, we hope Secretary Clinton will soon make good on her campaign’s commitment and agree to a time and pace for a debate”, Weaver added.
But Sanders’ win in OR on Tuesday netted him just four more delegates than Clinton, and their near-tie in Kentucky did not help him either.
OR became the 20th state to go for Sanders, the Independent from Vermont and the first Jewish candidate to win major party nomination contests. She says she cast her ballot for Sanders because, she says, “I think we need huge change”.
The 25 delegates elected Saturday were party leaders and elected officials who are pledged to one candidate or the other. Sanders, who now trails former Secretary of state Hillary Clinton in the race for the party’s presidential nomination, had asked for each candidates to have seven supporters on the committee, joined by a “neutral” appointee from Wasserman Schultz. After voting Tuesday in OR and Kentucky, Clinton had 2,291 delegates – 524 of them superdelegates – to Sanders’ 1,488 (only 40 superdelegates).
Sanders is also expected to take only a handful more of the 61 delegates that were awarded in Oregon.
They believe the Sanders and Clinton camps will eventually come together to defeat expected Republican nominee Donald Trump in the fall campaign.
The result meant that the Democratic front-runner blunted Mr Sanders’s momentum after he won a string of states in recent weeks, including West Virginia and Indiana.
“Thanks to the people of Kentucky, we won half of the delegates there”.
GOP voters in OR also mailed their ballots in, but the results won’t matter: Donald Trump is the only remaining Republican candidate.
“While Republicans move toward unifying the party for the general election, Hillary Clinton remains bogged down in a nasty, protracted primary fight and will have to rely on a rigged system of superdelegates to get across the finish line in Philadelphia”, he said in a statement.
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Although Sanders is nearly mathematically eliminated from securing the delegates needed to win the nomination-after Tuesday, Clinton is 96 percent of the way there-his continued victories state-by-state has complicated Clinton’s efforts to shift her focus to Donald Trump. Roberta Lange, the state party chairwoman, said the protesters tossed chairs, rushed the convention stage and targeted her with death threats. With his win in OR, the billionaire businessman now has 1,160 delegates, putting him within 77 delegates of clinching the Republican nomination. “I’ll tell you this”.
