BERNIE Sanders is pointing to his growing string of statewide wins and Hillary Clinton to her still-commanding lead in the delegate hunt as the Democratic rivals jostle for momentum heading into New York’s big primary later this month.
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Americans trust Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton more than Republican businessman Donald Trump to handle a wide range of issues – from immigration to health care to nominating Supreme Court justices.
Cruz completed his sweep of Colorado’s 34 delegates last weekend by locking up the remaining 13 at the party’s state convention in Colorado Springs.
“A more traditional approach is needed and Donald Trump recognizes that”, Paul Manafort, Mr Trump’s new delegate chief, said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
And former President Bill Clinton’s assertion that Sanders is only questioning her qualifications because she is a woman, he says, is proof of that negative tone.
Clinton has signaled recently that she is ready to move past the Democratic primary, arguing on Saturday in Brooklyn that Democrats need to unify so that she can “we can go after the Republicans full-time”.
Colorado will send a total of 37 delegates to the Republican National Convention in July, including three unpledged delegates who are the party’s top leaders in the state.
Faux Clinton also took some shots at her Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders.
The race is basically tied among non-Hispanic white primary voters (48% for Sanders and 46% for Clinton), while Clinton enjoys a large lead among black, Hispanic and other voters (62% to 22%).
“Here’s what I want you to know”, she responded, “most of the guns that are used in crimes and violence and killings in NY come from out of state”.
Sanders has cited his background as a senator from Vermont as the reason for some of his votes against gun control measures, saying that rural states have a different relationship to guns. Both ads will run in NY this week.
“In many respects, she may have the experience to be president of the United States”, Sanders said.
The results are similar to recent findings from Quinnipiac University and Fox News, which also showed her double-digit leads in the state she was twice elected to the Senate. To clinch the nomination by the end of the primaries, a candidate needs 1,237 delegates. For Democrats, 801 likely primary voters were polled for a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; for Republicans, 602 likely primary voters were surveyed for a margin of error of plus or minus 4 points.
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She’s up 1,756 delegates to Sanders’ 1,068. So far, he’s winning about 45pc.
