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| Sanders' Quest for Superdelegates Loses One After Virgin Island Official Flips to Clinton; His last-ditch bid for the Democratic presidential nomination relied on persuading Clinton's superdelegate backers to support | |
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| Dem4life | May 17 2016, 06:55 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-17/sanders-quest-for-superdelegates-loses-one-after-virgin-island-official-flips-to-clinton |
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| Dem4life | May 17 2016, 06:56 PM Post #2 |
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Emmett Hansen II, the Democratic National Committeeman for the U.S. Virgin Islands, decided to shift his support to Clinton after a weekend briefing on her plans for U.S. territories that followed months of dissatisfaction with Sanders’ lack of concrete positions. His reasons go right to the heart of Clinton's critique of the Sanders campaign. Hansen said that while he’s a believer in sweeping change, he also wants to get things done. “There are no more windmills to joust against and no more mountains to climb,” said Hansen, a native of St. Croix who was on the Sanders campaign's list of publicly committed superdelegate supporters. “It comes down to one thing: what’s best for the Virgin Islands, to be fully incorporated into the United States.” Hansen is the first Sanders superdelegate to publicly shift his support to Clinton. The U.S. Virgin Islands will send 12 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in July, seven of them pledged based on the outcome of district caucuses are scheduled for June 4. |
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| Dem4life | May 17 2016, 06:56 PM Post #3 |
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Another one bites the dust... |
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