But neither candidate necessarily walked away with the impressive landslides some were anticipating, especially for the Vermont senator in a state that’s self-declared Bernie Sanders country.
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The issue is particularly critical in this election, because even though Sanders beat Clinton by almost 10 percentage points in the primary, the former secretary of state could still amass most of the OR delegates if a certain number of the 13 superdelegates swing her way.
In primary elections, Clinton has won about 13 million votes to Sanders’ roughly 10 million. Sanders bested her in OR, a state that played to his strengths. In Oregon, Sanders will take only a handful more of the 61 delegates that were awarded.
She also had a dominant advantage among party officials and elected leaders known as super-delegates.
On the campaign trail, he routinely criticizes Trump.
That’s a closer primary race than most and raises the prospect that Sanders may be able to continue his challenge on the national convention floor in Philadelphia in July.
“I’ve never seen a campaign that didn’t feel it was being treated unfairly”, he said.
Sure, Sanders supporters could hold demonstrations and grant interviews to a media that is always looking for controversy, but his fans are more likely to look like sore losers than anything else. In March, both Sanders and Clinton participated in back-to-back town hall events on the network with host Bret Baier.
Congressman Peter Welch is a superdelegate who supports Sanders. Others applied chalk graffiti to a party building. At the convention, Sanders supporters “tried to game the system – totally legitimately – to overturn the will of the people in Nevada”, he said.
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“Absolutely unacceptable. You know, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you know, we can have a long conversation just about Debbie Wasserman Schultz and how she’s been throwing shade on the Sanders’ campaign since the beginning”, said Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager. He argued Lange did not allow a headcount on a disputed rules change and 64 delegates to Nevada’s convention were not given a hearing before being ruled ineligible. “We have a process set up that is eminently fair”, she told CNN.
Superdelegates are not going to switch to Sanders, particularly after the harassment, booing, incivility and even death threats from his backers at and after the Nevada Democratic convention, particularly since Sanders only weakly criticized his backers involved in those activities.
And these people are increasingly getting angry with Democratic leaders, which is a huge problem for the future of the party.
Congressman Welch agrees on the importance of party unity.
“No one in America should ever fear for their safety at a political rally”, Sanders said in a statement.
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That changed on Wednesday when the Sanders camp announced it had accepted a Fox News invitation after being contacted by the cable news channel earlier this week. Instead, there are a series of states with good or poor demographics for the various candidates, with demographics strongly predicting who wins any particular state. “She believes every voice should be heard and no one should be intimidated, harassed or threatened in this process”.
