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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Is Bernie Sanders angling for a contested convention?

Bernie Sanders was campaigning hard in San Francisco at dispatch time this morning even as the Associated Press reported that a weekend victory in Puerto Rico had put Hillary Clinton over the top, giving her the delegates she needed to clench the Democratic nomination. CNN reports that Sanders is coming under pressure to bow out of the race as California votes today, but Bernie was hearing none of it in a speech broadcast live online by Reuters: At the start of the campaign, he said, “We were [painted as] a fringe campaign with fringe ideas. That is not the case today. … And [Tuesday], in the most important primary in the whole Democratic nominating process, we’re going to win here in California. … We’re going to go into that convention with enormous momentum.” Donald Trump, he said, “will not become president of the United States. In every national poll … we beat him, and we beat him badly.”

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