Bernie Sanders Is Lagging Behind As Convention Looms, #BernieLostMe Is Born

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Trump garnered almost two-thirds of the total votes polled in OR, further consolidating his position as the presumptive presidential nominee.

Clinton leads by 274 pledged delegates and 760 overall. Welch says. “We’ve got to keep going on and keep our eye on the prize”.

Democrat Barbara Boxer, the other US senator from California, was at the Nevada convention and expressed her concern to Sanders in a phone call on Tuesday night. “It was frightening. I had – I was on the stage, and people were 6 feet away from me, and if I didn’t have a lot of security, I don’t know what would have happened”.

Speaking at the California rally, Mr Sanders recognised his campaign’s “steep hill to climb” but called for his supporters to remain hopeful and “take our fight into the convention” in July. Sanders, after a brief rhetorical respite from direct frontal attacks on Clinton, appears to have been re-emboldened by his recent series of victories.

Clinton is just 90 delegates shy of the 2,383 needed to seize the nomination, as reported by Fox News. In the wake of the dispute in Nevada, that involved a fight about allowing participation by Sanders supporters who didn’t register to be Democrats in time, the Vermont senator increased his call to for the party to allow participation by non-party members.

“We are in until the last ballot is cast”, Sanders declared.

“If we can substantially close the gap between Secretary Clinton and Sen”. Now they want to be sure he’ll transfer that energy to Clinton’s campaign.

Although Sanders is nearly mathematically eliminated from securing the delegates needed to win the nomination-after Tuesday, Clinton is 96 percent of the way there-his continued victories state-by-state has complicated Clinton’s efforts to shift her focus to Donald Trump. Unfortunately, many of Sanders’ supporters getting in on the fun are doing precisely what the Democratic Party is anxious about: directing their anger at Hillary and dividing the party rather than focusing on the TRUE threat to the Democrats, Donald Trump.

Sanders on Tuesday joined his supporters in criticizing the Nevada Democratic Party after Saturday’s events.

Sanders’ supporters angrily protested Nevada Democratic Party convention results that favored his opponent Hillary Clinton.

“No one in America should ever fear for their safety at a political rally”, Sanders said in a statement. Public messages sent to her Twitter account included a barrage of derogatory statements. “So I’m not anxious”, he said, following a retail stop at a local market with Senate candidate Ted Strickland of Ohio.

Sanders’ rhetoric has grown harsher and more bitter as the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has gone on, perhaps because despite winning numerous primaries and caucuses, he remains hopelessly stuck behind Hillary Clinton in the delegate count. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Sanders’ response would be a “test of leadership”.

“It certainly did not condemn the supporters for the violence and added more fuel to the fire”, she said.

Sanders spokesman Jeff Weaver said on Wednesday that Sanders categorically condemned any kind of threats as unacceptable.

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