Ahead of the CaPrimary, Clinton focuses on beating Trump while Sanders seeks to prolong the 'Bern'

Article from the heart of CA Primary..............Nice read on this blistering day.




Analysis Ahead of the California primary, Clinton focuses on beating Trump while Sanders seeks to prolong 'the Bern'

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sanders-clinton-california-20160525-snap-story.html

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Crowds of supporters reach toward Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after a speech at UC Riverside. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
Cathleen Decker

As the primary season whirls to an end, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are two planets occupying orbits that only occasionally cross.

Both presidential candidates have coursed across California in recent days, pleading with voters to give them the victory each needs in the June 7 Democratic primary. Both warned of challenges ahead that are fraught with danger.

But they are different challenges, as their recent California events show.

Clinton is aiming at presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and the threat she says he would pose to the nation. She has honed her pitch to emphasize what she says are his failings as a candidate and would-be president. She is running on her merit, to be sure, but also as the only alternative to Trump winning the White House.

Sanders is focused on the nearly impossible task of overtaking Clinton between now and the summer convention. If he is not yet crafting an elegy for his presidential hopes, he increasingly is describing his goals as the tenets of a movement that could outlive his candidacy. He scaldingly targets both Republicans and Democrats as consumed by corruption.

“I think it’s important that people look and compare,” Clinton said Tuesday, speaking from a stage in a UC Riverside gymnasium. “Because we’re going to take on Donald Trump. He can go ahead and engage in insulting and scapegoating and demeaning and bullying people, but I think the American voter is a lot smarter than to fall for that, don’t you?”

She returned to the theme on Wednesday in Buena Park, where she said that in Trump's world, "he gets his, and you get hurt."...........................