In a campaign organizing event in Brooklyn Saturday, she mentioned Sanders’ vote, while he was a US senator, against a 2007 immigration reform bill, and said the bill was the best chance in recent history to get immigration reform through Congress.
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We’re now more than halfway through the presidential primary elections, and, in a twist almost as surprising as the juggernaut that is Donald Trump, Vermont Sen.
The next primaries are set to take place on April 19 in NY – contests that Clinton and Trump should easily win, according to two opinion polls released Tuesday.
Clinton’s campaign responded with a list of fact checks that have dinged the Vermont senator, argued that “Sanders struggled with the truth”, and accused him of not running the attack-free campaign he originally said he wanted to.
Clockwise from top left: Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Sen. They just didn’t vote for you.
More than half of voters surveyed said they believe Clinton will win the November general election, compared to just 14 percent who said Trump and 7 percent who said Sanders, the poll found.
Trump, a billionaire, is supported by 64 percent of voters reporting incomes under $50,000 a year, while his support slides to 45 percent among those making more than $100,000. But “I’ve never seen a recount make a difference (in a statewide Missouri election), and I think they’ll take that into consideration”. Sanders hit back at a rally in the upstate NY city of Binghamton, rallying supporters with a lengthy riff slamming Clinton for promoting fracking as secretary of state and only offering conditional opposition to the practice. During the meeting, Clinton said that Trump “does not respect the diversity” of the borough and that his words were “hurting” America. But he faces the daunting challenge of needing to win 68 per cent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates, party officials who can vote for any candidate, if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans had a favorable view of him along with 55 percent of Democrats. On immigration, Trump wants to round up all illegal immigrants and deport them while Sanders wants a pathway for immigrants to obtain citizenship. The poll asks who Trump and Cruz supporters will vote for if their guy doesn’t get the GOP nom, and in either case about one-quarter say they’ll go for a third party.
“If Donald Trump is the nominee, I will be voting for whoever is the Democratic nominee-Hillary Clinton, most likely”, first-time voter Rebecca Liebler told The Young Turks last month.
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The poll was conducted April 6 to 11 by telephone calls.
