A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday conducted from Monday to Friday, showed Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, with a 10.7 point lead among likely voters over Trump, her likely Republican rival in the November presidential election.
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Bernie Sanders won the Montana Democrat gubernatorial race in the June 7 primary, garnering 51 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 44 percent.
Looking ahead to the convention, Sanders said the party must support a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage, pay equity for women, a ban on the sale and distribution of assault weapons and a defeat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. However, Sanders has not conceded and has indicated he will continue to campaign until the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.
“I also look forward to working with Secretary Clinton to transform the Democratic Party so that it becomes a party of working people and young people”. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, made an announcement about his campaign. He came from nowhere – for years a socialist independent gadfly in the United States senate – to lead a grassroots movement of millions of young American progressives, a “political revolution”, as he liked to call it at rally after rally. Weaver said the Sanders team is in contact with the Clinton campaign daily as the two sides work to resolve differences.
“Sen. Sanders has electrified the nation, inspiring millions to stand up for a bolder and better future”, said George Goehl, co-executive director of People’s Action, a new national grassroots organization.
Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies have invested at least $41 million in commercials in crucial states such as Ohio, Florida and Nevada over the next six weeks, a series of summer broadsides against her Republican opponent.
A key race to watch is the August primary contest between Sanders-backed Tim Canova, a law professor, and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has become – at least in the minds of the Sanders campaign – the Vermont senator’s nemesis in the party establishment. At first, his share of the vote was only 20 to 25 percent, but as more candidates dropped out due to poor support, he climbed to 35 percent and then to 45 percent. So when Sanders speaks out or disagrees with the Democratic administration, whereas before no one would have noticed, “now literally the whole world is going to know”.
For example, in critically important OH, where the state GOP backed Gov. John Kasich’s failed presidential campaign, party officials have been unwilling to throw much support behind Trump. His top advisors say the focus will be on continuing his political revolution.
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“I don’t see these people sitting out and giving Trump a free ride”, Rossman-McKinney said.
