Discussing delegate math in a fashion more typical of a campaign consultant than a candidate, Sanders said he thinks it is highly unlikely that Clinton will have won the 2,383 delegates needed to claim the nomination based on primary and caucus results alone.
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After a fierce battle with Cruz over the last 24 hours – really, the past week – Trump spoke of him in glowing terms.
“As of today, we have now won 17 primaries and caucuses”. “Cruz can not win, he’s got no highway, he’s got nothing, he’s way behind”.
Voters began casting their ballots after polling stations opened in what could be a make or break vote for Texas Senator Ted Cruz in his bid to stop Trump.
“So who’s going to have a contested convention now?” said the adviser, who spoke on the condition on anonymity, just as Cruz announced he would no longer pursue the GOP presidential nomination.
Clinton has pushed back on Sanders by pointing out that she holds a strong lead among pledged delegates and has received almost 2.7 million more popular votes than Sanders has.
With 93 percent of the precincts reporting, Sanders was defeating Hillary Clinton 53 percent to 47 percent. Instead aides have taken to noting that both Sanders and Clinton were offered and signed the same agreement.
Sanders would need to win more than 82 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates through June if he hopes to clinch the nomination; now, Sanders has been winning just 39 percent.
The Independent senator from Vermont also said he thinks he can gain support from superdelegates in states where he has attained the majority of the vote.
There are a total of 92 delegates up for grabs for the Democrats tonight, 83 of which are pledged delegates while the remaining nine delegates are superdelegates.
Her campaign quickly turned the remark into multiple requests for money to combat what the Clinton campaign called sexist bullying. “Next week, we’re going to be in West Virginia – we think we have a real shot to win in that great state”.
Sanders brushed-off the idea that he would hurt Democrats’ general election chances by remaining in the race at the expense of Clinton, contending that it’s good for the party and the country to have a vigorous debate and engage people in the political process.
Sanders’ campaign did not say how much it had left at the end of April, but recent moves indicate the fundraising downturn is having a deleterious effect on his organization.
While Clinton might be the preferable candidate, she isn’t well liked.
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Trump also attacked Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on the show, saying that he’d catch heat if he had made a “very harsh statement” like she did over the weekend about how she knows how to deal with men who go off the reservation.
