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Wisconsin democrats voted in favor of ending the superdelegate system for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at their state convention on Saturday. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a separate motion asking superdelegates to vote according to the state primary results this year was also passed.
Both candidates have campaigned aggressively in the state despite its lateness on the campaign calendar and Clinton's nearly insurmountable lead in delegates. A first-place finish in California would enable Clinton to strengthen her moral as well as mathematical claim to the nomination.
Presidential, Congressional races highlight Tuesday's primary The action in Central Jersey's primary election will be in the GOP race for the 7th Congressional District Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1sY3mpS General Manager/Editor Paul Grzella previews the stories we're working on for the weekend's editions of the Courier News, Home News Tribune and MyCentralJersey.com. U.S. Representative Leonard Lance worked at the QuickChek store location in West Amwell, NJ on Wednesday, June 1 as part of a National Association of Convenience Stores In Store event that enables elected officials to experience first-hand the community experience at their local convenience store.
Supporters await the arrival of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign stop in Fresno, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake Washington/Long Beach, California - If Hillary Clinton ends up losing California to Bernie Sanders, it will be because of voters like Nallely Perez.
Certainly, Curiel's Mexican heritage alone would not be enough to raise a question of bias . As someone whose own ancestors came to the United States from Mexico, I know ethnicity alone cannot pose a conflict of interest.
Hillary Clinton scored a sweeping win in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, picking up all seven pledged delegates at stake as she inched tantalizingly close to the Democratic nomination. The party said Clinton won 84.2 percent of the vote, while Bernie Sanders earned 12.2 percent.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a conversation on immigration at Culinary Arts Institute of Los Angeles Mission College on Saturday, June 4, 2016 in Sylmar, Calif. Congressman Xavier Becerra, Mayor Eric Garcetti and California's Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon along with two immigrant students Clara Kim and Italia Garcia took part in the conversation.
With the primary season near its end, a defiant Bernie Sanders declared Saturday that the Democratic presidential process should not be decided by party leaders and elected officials, predicting a contested summer convention against rival Hillary Clinton. Speaking to reporters three days before the California primary, Sanders showed few signs of surrender, vowing to take his bid to the Philadelphia convention in July.
Days after Hillary Clinton assailed Donald TrumpA s understanding of foreign affairs in a widely publicized speech, the presumptive Republican nominee claimed she "got it all wrong," but he continued to insist he will take a tough line toward making Japan pay for its defense. "It was supposed to be foreign policy and it was really Trump policy," Trump told ABCA s John Dickerson in an interview set to air Sunday.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will be back in the Bay Area on Sunday, making stops in Vallejo and Sacramento in a last-ditch effort to sew up support before California's primary on Tuesday. Clinton will first appear at the Good Day Cafe in Vallejo at 3:15 p.m. for a meeting with community leaders, similar to the chat she had with small business owners at House of Chicken and Waffles in Oakland in May. While her competitor Bernie Sanders has made waves with impassioned speeches and huge rallies, Clinton has held quieter events that attempt to hone in on both national and hyperlocal issues with the help of local politicians.
Hillary Clinton fought on two fronts in California on Saturday as she sought to wrap up her battle with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, taking aim at him and at Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, with attacks on their immigration stances. Both Clinton and Sanders campaigned across California, stopping in immigrant communities, big cities and the agricultural heartland on the final weekend before Tuesday's primary in the nation's biggest state.
The Democrats had a script for 2016. Backed by big-money donors, party insiders, liberal institutions, universal name recognition, the media and terror on the part of all other serious potential candidates, Hillary Clinton would glide to the nomination, her path marked by rose petals.
Hillary Clinton 's "major foreign policy address" on Thursday turned out to be nothing more than another campaign stop and an opportunity to bash her presumptive presidential opponent. The word "presumptive" means Clinton must wait for the findings of the FBI criminal investigation.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday vowed to continue his fight for the Democratic nomination beyond the primary season, telling reporters at a news conference in Los Angeles that he plans to go after Hillary Clinton's superdelegates. Clinton currently has 2,313 total delegates -- 1,769 of which are pledged and 544 of which are superdelegates -- and she is expected to cross the 2,383-delgate threshold in the next few days to clinch the nomination.
Former US President Bill Clinton criticized Republicans on Friday for changing their tune on Hillary Clinton now that she's running for president. During a Southern California campaign stop in support of his wife's 2016 run for the White House, Clinton acknowledged that there has been "road rage" during both the Democratic and Republican primaries, but he said Republicans have turned an especially cold shoulder to Hillary.
This piece by Eric Alterman about the press's He said/ She said "both sides do it" coverage of the 2016 election is an absolute must read. There is a very big risk of the press normalizing Trump and pathologizing Clinton in order to pretend they are being "balanced."
Amazingly, given the recent pattern of actions, its clear the Utah Democratic Party is biased in favor of its own obscurity. This is a party that literally likes losing.