Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, plans to lay off “hundreds” of campaign staffers from field offices across the country, according to The New York Times. “I applaud Sen. Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of politics and putting greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality”, she said.
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But never fear, the underdog senator is not ready to throw in the towel – the campaign says that they will be focusing all of their efforts on campaigning in California in an effort to win the delegate-heavy state in June. “This campaign is going to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform”.
While Sanders won Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Rhode Island, the former Secretary of State won primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. “So what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff”. Trump said. The Republican front-runner waded into politically risky territory this week when he accused Democrat Hillary Clinton of exploiting her gender to win votes and said she would have little support if she were not a woman.
Field staffers working on those state campaigns were “told to look elsewhere for work rather than continue onto the next voting states”, campaign sources tell the website.
“We are in this campaign to win”, Sanders told an in crowd on Wednesday, though he immediately acknowledged that it’s possible he will not make it to the White House.
Among other things, Sanders is seen as having shifted Hillary Clinton, the now presumptive nominee, on key issues that he brought to center stage.
Mrs Clinton and the Democratic Party are hoping to tap into Sanders’ fundraising operation and his coalition in the run-up to November’s election. Kasich came second in four of the five States but ha s only five delegates.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: We will examine the race, and hear more of Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech, after the news summary.
