Clinton campaigns in Kentucky before Tuesday’s primary

The Clinton campaign’s decision to have the former president, Hillary Clinton’s top surrogate, headline a Fargo rally on Friday, May 20, was probably a direct reaction to Sanders coming, Jendrysik said.

Nearly 25 years ago, a political upstart named Bill Clinton beat President George H.W. Bush by focusing on jobs and the economy, reciting like a mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid!”

Supporters cheer as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at Union of Carpenters and Millwrights Training Center during a campaign stop in Louisville, Ky., Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Now that businessman Donald Trump has effectively wrapped up the nomination on the Republican side, pressure for Senator Bernie Sanders to drop out and clear the way for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is mounting, but experts say his intransigence may ultimately benefit the party.

No Democratic presidential candidate has won Kentucky since 1980 except Hillary Clinton’s husband Bill, but she is treating the state as an opportunity to appeal to a demographic that has consistently snubbed her: working-class white men.

Clinton holds a large lead among delegates going into Tuesday’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon. While those victories have provided his supporters a fresh sense of momentum heading into next week’s primaries in Kentucky and OR, they did almost nothing to help Sanders cut into Clinton’s nearly insurmountable lead in the delegates who will decide their party’s nomination.

Western Kentucky University student Josh Knight, a Sanders campaign volunteer, thinks the Vermont Senator is a breath of fresh air compared to traditional politicians.

Sanders national communications director Michael Briggs didn’t have immediate comment on the events in Nevada when reached by phone on Sunday morning.

Yet another email, from former Bill Clinton and Obama economic aide Gene Sperling, attacked Trump for undermining the confidence of financial markets in the U.S. government by suggesting that a Trump administration might not repay United States federal debt at its current market value.

They noted that eight prospective Clinton delegates had also been disqualified, and six of the disputed Sanders supporters were ultimately allowed as delegates. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and locked in 13 delegates, while Bernie Sanders received 10.

When Sen. Barbara Boxer took the stage to announce Hillary Clinton as the victor, Bernie Sanders supporters began to boo while others yelled obscenities at her, according to the Las Vegas Sun. Her tweetstorm during the past week shows she’s capable of being the kind of scrappy surrogate Clinton needs to take him on. In April, after it appeared that Clinton would secure the nomination, she raised more than Sanders.

That’s why a preliminary report from the delegate credentials committee – which included both Sanders and Clinton supporters – at the state convention Saturday morning ticked off so numerous Sanders camp in attendance: it counted more Clinton delegates than Sanders delegates. “If you’re booing me, you’re booing Bernie Sanders“, she told them. Had Sanders’ supporters gotten everything they wanted, Clinton’s lead would be 278. There is already strong support for Bernie Sanders from a group that has disavowed the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” mantra and say they will vote for Bernie no matter what.

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