In case there was still any doubt, the June 7th primaries/caucuses in California, Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey, California, North & South Dakota, is the “official” target date on which the Sanders campaign intends to pull ahead of the Clinton campaign in pledged delegates (better late than never I’d say).
It makes one wonder if the primaries & caucuses in the West & Midwest had been held first, and it were now Bernie who was ahead by a substantial margin, if the establishment would be calling for Hillary to unite behind Senator Sanders.
For some reason, I don’t think so.
The below is from the most recent Sanders fundraising email (which is often the only place where I can actually tell what they’re really doing and up to...)
Something pretty wild happened when our campaign and the Clinton campaign filed FEC reports yesterday.
Yes, the overwhelming majority of money raised directly by the Clinton campaign in February came from big-dollar donations. Yes, a former hedge fund executive’s family gave millions of dollars to her super PAC. These things are to be expected by now.
But what we never expected was that our supporters, a large number of working Americans giving small amounts of money at a time, raised more than the Clinton campaign. A lot more … almost two times as much in direct contributions.
Now, the Clinton campaign has still raised more than us to date. But we are catching up. And when we do, that’s going to make it easier for us to run the margins we need to gain the delegate lead on June 7th. But that will only happen if supporters like you keep stepping up.
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Bernie likes to say that when people stand together, anything is possible. In this campaign, our supporters — giving small amounts of money — are taking on Wall Street, pharmaceutical interests, and people who profit from the destruction of the planet.
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And we are winning. If we keep going, we can win this nomination.
All my best,
Jeff Weaver Campaign Manager Bernie 2016