On the Republican side, Trump holds a wide delegate lead nationally, but there seems to be a real chance no one will claim a majority of GOP delegates before the national convention in Cleveland in July.
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Sanders previously said that he won’t seek a recount, because it’s unlikely to significantly affect the number of delegates each candidate receives to the Democratic National Convention under the proportional allocation system used by the party. “If you’re a true believer you just hang in there and hope something materializes that makes it work; that’s where I’m at at this time”. For Bernie Sanders to double voter turnout, like in MI, he needs roughly 65 percent of them to show up April 19th. There are a little more than 200 who are publicly uncommitted. It’s also a subtle move by the former secretary of state and NY senator to distance herself from President Barack Obama’s record on immigration – one that has led critics to dub him “deporter in chief”.
Among all the remaining candidates, only Sanders, Clinton’s Democratic rival, generates significantly more positive than negative ratings from Americans, with 48 percent saying they have a favorable opinion of him and 39 percent unfavorable.
In the second through eighth columns, on the same line as each of the two nominees are the names of six delegates, three men and three women in each.
The 23-year-old memo was among about 200 pages of documents released Tuesday by the Clinton Presidential Library.
“Our immigration enforcement efforts should be humane and conducted in accordance with due process, and that is why I believe we must stop the raids happening in immigrant communities”, Clinton said in a statement in January.
The delegate count is the only tally that matters in determining who will win each party’s nominating contest.
The events highlight an issue for Clinton: In order to raise the money needed to keep her campaign on track, Clinton has to invest considerable time by making personal appearances at events across the country.
Plenty. Begin with the fact that the Clinton-Sanders race has devolved into gratuitous and self-destructive nastiness.
“Sanders’ ideological purity has found a boundary in political convenience”, the paper’s editorial board wrote.
Combined, Bill and Hillary Clinton have made 3 million in speaking fees alone.
But that brings us back to the paragraph above.
“I think they’ll take a look at it, ” Carl Bearden, a Missouri co-chairman of the Cruz campaign, said Tuesday. But he predicted many Clinton superdelegates would not, even in that scenario. Bernie Sanders 58% to 36%. “And, therefore, they’ll stick with her”. Those 2008 numbers favor Sanders in states that divvy up their delegates on a proportional basis, Skelley said. The contest in NY wouldn’t have been of much significance has the nomination fight not become so close.
The other advantage for Clinton is NY is a closed primary. In its headline, the editorial praised Clinton’s economic plans as “far superior” to Sanders’.
“Clinton’s proposals are shaped for the world in which we live, not the world in which we might wish to live”, the paper, owned by long-time Clinton supporter Mort Zuckerman, concluded. I don’t like the word firewall.
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At his rallies, Sanders questions Clinton’s past support for trade deals and reminds his audiences that Clinton voted to authorize the Iraq war in 2002 while he opposed it. “Her judgment was faulty”, he said.
