Welcome to Breitbart News’s live updates of the 2016 horse race. All times eastern. 10:30: Sanders makes the electability argument again. He says he does better with independents than Clinton while energizing more working-class and young people than she has. He says the Clinton campaign lacks the energy needed to turn out voters in November. 10:25: In Northern California, Sanders says neither candidate will have the number of pledged delegates (“real delegates”) needed to win the the Dem. nomination after California. He says in this “broken system,” he and Clinton will then need to get the support of super delegates. Sanders says it was an “absurd situation” that eight months before the first ballot was cast in Iowa, Clinton had the support of 400 super delegates. Sanders calls it a “system of anointment.” He says it is an “unfair” and “dumb” system that “we will change.” 10:22: When asked about agitators who have been protesting Trump’s events, Trump says the safest place you can be is at a Trump rally. He blasts protesters who do not even know why they are there. He says they are proof of what a phony business politics is. He blasts agitators for holding up
Month: May 2016
***Horse Race LiveWire*** Hillary: Trump Shouldn’t Get Much Credit for Raising Money for Vets
Welcome to Breitbart News’s live updates of the 2016 horse race. All times eastern. 10:30: Sanders makes the electability argument again. He says he does better with independents than Clinton while energizing more working-class and young people than she has. He says the Clinton campaign lacks the energy needed to turn out voters in November. 10:25: In Northern California, Sanders says neither candidate will have the number of pledged delegates (“real delegates”) needed to win the the Dem. nomination after California. He says in this “broken system,” he and Clinton will then need to get the support of super delegates. Sanders says it was an “absurd situation” that eight months before the first ballot was cast in Iowa, Clinton had the support of 400 super delegates. Sanders calls it a “system of anointment.” He says it is an “unfair” and “dumb” system that “we will change.” 10:22: When asked about agitators who have been protesting Trump’s events, Trump says the safest place you can be is at a Trump rally. He blasts protesters who do not even know why they are there. He says they are proof of what a phony business politics is. He blasts agitators for holding up
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