Democratic presidential candidate shakes hands with attendees during a campaign stop, Monday, April 25, 2016, in Wilmington, Del.
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NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist Poll surveyed 734 likely PA Democratic primary voters and 571 likely PA Republican primary voters.
Trump was set to campaign in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania on Monday, two of the five states hosting primary contests on Tuesday.
Voters in five north-eastern USA states will cast ballots in a series of primaries that could cement the leads of presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Della Volpe cautions that it’s impossible to predict how millennials’ views will shift in the future, but people change parties only rarely after about age 30, researchers have found. If that pattern holds for the millennial generation, then Democrats could be indebted for decades to a politician who has rejected a formal association with the Democratic Party for his entire career until now.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz downplayed tensions between Sanders and Clinton, whose rivalry has become increasingly nasty in recent weeks.
Clinton has defended her focus on Trump while still campaigning against Sanders, telling reporters in NY earlier this month that she can “walk and chew gum at the same time”.
Sanders would recapture some momentum with such an unexpected big-state win, but he can’t escape the fact that Democrats award delegates in proportion to the vote. “She’s always been a strong woman and I’ve always followed her because of that”, she said. “And when they get out…, we will start on Hillary Clinton like nobody’s ever seen”. In part, that’s because Trump is heavily favored to sweep on Tuesday, with polls giving the front-runner a large lead over Cruz and John Kasich in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and CT. “We intend to take the fight all the way to California“, he said on ABC’s “This Week”.
Trump now leads the delegate race by almost 300 votes. This group of contests offers Sanders one of the last chances on the election calendar to gain ground in pledged delegates and make a broader case to superdelegates to support him.
That will help Trump over more conventional Republicans such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who campaigned in the state Saturday, and Texas Sen.
The hope of a contested convention is keeping Mr Kasich and Mr Cruz in the race.
As of Sunday, Trump has 845 delegates, Cruz has 559 and Kasich has 148.
G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., questioned whether the new Cruz-Kasich alliance would work, saying it “feeds the narrative that the establishment is intriguing to stop Trump”.
Given Trump’s likely wins on Tuesday, Madonna said, “it borders on a last-ditch tactic, and Trump will use it for all its worth”. We now know where in Indiana Hillary Clinton will campaign.
“There’s some disappointment on behalf of Kasich supporters in IN, but they also understand the strategic decision”, Kasich’s in campaign co-chair, Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard, said. “But in politics, because it’s a rigged system, because it’s a corrupt enterprise, in politics you’re allowed to collude”. However, Cruz and Kasich did not go so far as to tell their supporters to actually vote for their opponent.
But if Trump falls short of the votes needed to win on the first ballot in Cleveland, and delegates across the country begin switching sides, the efforts now being made to woo Pennsylvania delegates could pay off. Their names are listed on the ballot with no information about which White House hopeful they support.
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Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, wrote an open letter to Bernie Sanders, asking the Independent Vermont senator to consider ditching his attempt to win the Democratic party’s presidential nomination for a real “revolution for people, planet and peace” alongside Stein.
