Seventy-four percent of Clinton supporters and 69 percent of Sanders supporters agreed that the ongoing campaign is not hurting the party.
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Hillary Clinton’s insistence that the race for the Democratic nomination is effectively over is supported by delegate maths, but it will do little to quell the growing acrimony between her supporters and those of Bernie Sanders. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California”, she says.
Clinton recalled how she went all the way to the end with then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008, and how she worked to rally her supporters to vote for Obama even though 40 percent of Clinton’s supporters said they would never vote for him. Here’s how the others rank: 14 percent say national security will be most important in their vote, 10 percent each for education and health care, and 8 percent each for immigration and social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. His arguments include that Sanders’s rhetoric (calling for a “revolution”) and base of support (heavily from people who aren’t loyal to the party) makes such unification trickier.
“Republicans’ more pessimistic views could stem from a long process that has involved a large group of candidates, name-calling and many heated, televised exchanges”, said Gallup analyst Justin McCarthy.
The media seems more concerned about Trump using the word “rape” than being concerned at all about how many women Bill Clinton has been accused of abusing and Hillary’s actions to silence these women.
But, in her interview to the CNN, Clinton exuded confidence that she would be the nominee of the party as the numbers and the math are on her side.
“I’m three million votes ahead of him, and I have an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, and I am confident that just as I did with Senator Obama, where I said, you know what?”
“The fact that Hillary thinks the temporary Muslim ban, which she calls the “Muslim ban”, promotes terrorism, proves Bernie Sanders was correct when he said she is not qualified to be President”, he said in the statement.
“Whatever differences we may have, they pale in comparison to the Republican nominee”, Clinton said. We expect voters in the remaining eight contests also will disagree. This is sort of what happened the last time there was a Democratic presidential primary, when Clinton was in the never-give-up role.
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However, both Clinton and Trump have very high unfavourable ratings in the CBS News/New York Times poll released last night.
