After the Indiana primaries of May 3 2016 the Republican contender Donald Trump secured his party nomination for the presidential election of November 8 2016. Hillary Clinton on the other hand in spite of her ardent desire to compete with Trump on the same national arena could not secure her Democratic Party nomination until that date.
Donald Trump a Republican Party finalist and a winner managed to defeat 16 other Republicans with pedigree and respected party members. In the same period of time Hillary Clinton who competed within a Democratic Party group of only six candidates was still laboring to defeat Bernie Sanders in their party semifinals.
In spite of her inevitability" aura created by the media Clinton could not close the deal" with Bernie Sanders to use her own words.
And that was because of a couple of things.
First Sanders kept winning states. By May 2016 Sanders won Indiana West Virginia and Oregon and narrowly lost Kentucky. Only by June 2016 when Clinton won California the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico she had sufficient support from pledged and unpledged delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee.
However in the meantime Sanders had created already his populist Free Stuff Matters movement and wanted to stick around for the July 25 2016 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia.
Second the then-ongoing FBI investigation of Clintons e-mails (also called a wild card") was a powerful factor. FBI recent interviews included Clintons long-time aide Huma Abedin and the Romanian notorious hacker Marcel Lazăr aka Guccifer extradited in April from Romania to the United States.
At the time Trump referred to Clinton in his speeches but he was advised to focus instead on his countrys policies. Any personal attack would have elevated her from the party semi-finalist status that she was at to a finalist status that she did not deserve yet but she was aiming to obtain by burning stages.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in PUERTO RICO MONITOR.
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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After the Indiana primaries of May 3 2016 the Republican contender Donald Trump secured his party nomination for the presidential election of November 8 2016. Hillary Clinton on the other hand in spite of her ardent desire to compete with Trump on the same national arena could not secure her Democratic Party nomination until that date.
Donald Trump a Republican Party finalist and a winner managed to defeat 16 other Republicans with pedigree and respected party members. In the same period of time Hillary Clinton who competed within a Democratic Party group of only six candidates was still laboring to defeat Bernie Sanders in their party semifinals.
In spite of her inevitability" aura created by the media Clinton could not close the deal" with Bernie Sanders to use her own words.
And that was because of a couple of things.
First Sanders kept winning states. By May 2016 Sanders won Indiana West Virginia and Oregon and narrowly lost Kentucky. Only by June 2016 when Clinton won California the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico she had sufficient support from pledged and unpledged delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee.
However in the meantime Sanders had created already his populist Free Stuff Matters movement and wanted to stick around for the July 25 2016 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia.
Second the then-ongoing FBI investigation of Clintons e-mails (also called a wild card") was a powerful factor. FBI recent interviews included Clintons long-time aide Huma Abedin and the Romanian notorious hacker Marcel Lazăr aka Guccifer extradited in April from Romania to the United States.
At the time Trump referred to Clinton in his speeches but he was advised to focus instead on his countrys policies. Any personal attack would have elevated her from the party semi-finalist status that she was at to a finalist status that she did not deserve yet but she was aiming to obtain by burning stages.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in PUERTO RICO MONITOR.
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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