Mr Sanders stands at 1,448.
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And the figures, he argued, aren’t as bad as some say.
“Some might go vote for Hillary Clinton to try and beat Donald Trump, but I’m still for Bernie”, said Barrera, who traveled to the rally from Albany.
Clinton in March said the country would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” at an OH town hall in a comment that appeared to hurt her with voters in coal-mining states such as West Virginia. Five delegates remain to be allocated, pending final vote tallies.
Clinton likely wasn’t counting on the race extending through May, forcing her to fight for delegates in coal country.
Earlier on Tuesday, Cruz floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he won Nebraska’s primary, though he said he didn’t expect to take the contest.
Joe Biden predicts Hillary Clinton as the country’s next president.
There is a battle of the sexes going on among the nation’s electorate, and Clinton seems to be losing: As much as women dislike Donald Trump, men dislike Clinton more.
But he also appeared to step up criticisms of Clinton – something some observers had calculated he would at least curtail. Responding to an unemployed coal worker, she said she made a “misstatement”.
He closed the anecdote by saying that one of the Waltons has donated “thousands and thousands of dollars” to Clinton’s campaign. Secretary Clinton’s campaign already has agreed to another debate in California.
Later, he devoted a section of his talk to pointing out differences between himself and Clinton.
At a rally in Salem, Oregon, Mr Sanders told supporters the result from the “working people” of West Virginia showed that the USA “needs an economy that works for all of us not just the (top) 1%”.
He also criticized her for not supporting the sort of carbon tax he insisted is critical to dulling the human-caused effects of climate change. “My time spent in both states was a wonderful and enlightening experience for me”, Mr. Trump said in a statement.
It’s not a message they seem to want to hear.
Rabia Keeble, of Oakland, was one of several volunteers who met with Sanders inside his Rockridge campaign headquarters. Sanders was last in OR on April 28, when he spoke in Springfield.
Twenty-two delegates are elected according to the statewide vote. Prior to the caucus, he attracted an overflow crowd to an enthusiastic rally on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
Clinton hasn’t visited OR during the campaign.
Though the mainstream and corporate media continue to push a narrative suggesting the race for Democratic nomination is essentially over, polling released in the last twenty-four hours shows that Sanders continues to do better nationally in a hypothetical general-election matchup against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“We have now won primaries and caucuses in 19 states and let me be as clear as I can be – we are in this campaign to win the Democratic nomination”.
When including the party officials known as superdelegates who can back any candidate, Clinton has 2,238 delegates – or 94 percent of the 2,383 needed to win.
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Most West Virginia Republicans feel good about the possibility of a Trump presidency. Thus she has an overall lead of 2,228 to 1,454.
