But Hillary Clinton can do something right now to acknowledge the need to rethink the Democratic Party’s nomination rules, particularly the existence of superdelegates. The victory puts him on the cusp of securing the party’s nomination at the GOP national convention in July.
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Trump will win all of the 44 Republican delegates at stake in the election.
Donald Trump solidified his support on the way to his presumed GOP nomination for president, handily winning Washington state’s Republican presidential primary.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, May 24, 2016. She won Jefferson County, which includes Louisville and is the largest by far of the state’s 120 counties, by almost 10 times that amount In his filing on Tuesday, Sanders requested a full check and recount of every voting machine and absentee ballot from all precincts in the counties, according to Grimes’ website.
Police managed to stop a group of about 100 protesters who had tried to storm the convention centre when Mr Trump was speaking, the newspaper said. More than two decades later, Clinton’s wife, Hillary, is dispatching her own insurgent rival, Bernie Sanders, and tightening her hold on the nomination. But Democrats made a decision to allocate their delegates in the March 26 caucuses, where Vermont Sen.
The latest Economist/YouGov Poll shows Clinton back to a double-digit lead over Sanders among Democratic primary voters.
He was especially close to the state’s longest-serving governor, Democrat Bruce King, whose funeral he spoke at in November 2009. Ted Cruz, were still on the ballot because they suspended their campaigns after the ballots were printed. But if a recanvass were to determine he actually received more votes than Clinton in the sixth congressional district, Sanders could earn the last remaining delegate that Clinton would otherwise receive.
There are no more Republican contests until June 7, when the last five states vote.
ABC News noted that Mr Trump’s “enhanced competitiveness reflects consolidation in his support since his primary opponents dropped out, and it comes despite significant challenges to his candidacy”.
Americans are almost evenly divided between the candidates, with Clinton holding the three-point advantage in a 48 percent to 45 percent split, according to the poll.
Clinton continues to poll well among women where she holds an 18-point lead over Trump.
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Clinton devoted the bulk of her remarks to criticizing Trump’s foreign policy record, his economic policies and personal finances, an approach she has taken as she pivots to the general election.
