Slightly more (54 percent) say they’d feel less safe if Trump, the likely Republican nominee, is commander in chief instead.
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Bernie Sanders continues to demonstrate his resiliency against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, claiming victory in last night’s OR primary and running neck-in-neck with Clinton in Kentucky.
Some Sanders supporters reacted in a wildly disproportionate manner to the news, some going as far as making death threats against chairwoman Lange.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment and the Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. At that point, Sanders out-organized Clinton, getting 2,124 people elected to the state convention (according to the tabulation at the always-essential delegate-tracking site the Green Papers) to Clinton’s 1,722.
Clinton narrowly edged out Sanders in Kentucky, a state where she had not been expected to win. Bernard Sanders for complaining that the Democratic primary process is “rigged” against him, noting that his presidential campaign mostly wins closed caucuses contests.
But as the final set of major contests approach, Clinton remains more than 100 delegates short of sealing the deal to become the Democratic party nominee for the November 8 election.
But don’t forget: In May of 2008, Hillary Clinton was reminding Democrats that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, which offended Barack Obama’s campaign and supporters.
The tensions after a chaotic weekend convention in Nevada emerged as Republicans begin to rally around their own outsider presidential candidate, billionaire businessman Donald Trump, in the general election.
Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, was the last Democrat to carry the state in a presidential election – he won Kentucky in 1992 and 1996 – and the former first lady tried to emphasize those ties in the days leading up to the primary.
CNN reported Tuesday that several top Democrats told the network publicly and privately that the aggressive enthusiasm of Sanders supporters has on multiple occasions “descended into incendiary attacks” on fellow Democrats who support Clinton.
Is it reasonable for the Sanders campaign to remain full-throat engaged in the primary race, particularly in light of the deteriorating relationship between Sanders supporters and DNC leadership?
“I can not see anything that’s within the jurisdiction of the rules committee that has any impact on who’s the nominee”, said former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, a Clinton backer charged by the DNC with heading up the convention rules committee. Hall asked. Turner said that would be Sanders’ decision. “Sanders in terms of pledged delegates”, Jeff Weaver told NPR’s All Things Considered, “he can go into the convention with a substantial momentum from having won the vast, vast majority of states at the end of the process”.
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“He was very distressed about it”, she said of Sanders’ reaction to her on the phone. Right before taking the stage, Sanders met one-on-one with ABC7 News, appealing to the public for votes ahead of California’s primary.
