… The Vermont Senator has vowed to press on, arguing that he’s favored to win in a string of upcoming states and that he’ll be able to use the resulting momentum to persuade super-delegates to flip to his side at the convention.
In an interview with me today, Clinton’s chief strategist, Joel Benenson, dismissed those arguments. He insisted that Sanders has no viable path left to the nomination, leaving him with tough choices about whether he should continue, what he hopes to accomplish, and whether he should keep attacking Clinton as hard as he has been so far, given that he can’t win. …
Benenson also shed new light on how the Clinton team views the looming battle with Donald Trump, insisting that analysts are wrong in arguing that she might be vulnerable to Trump making inroads among blue collar whites in the industrial Midwest, and maintaining that if anything, Trump might enable Clinton to pick off a few states that have been solidly in the GOP camp. CONT.
Greg Sargent, Washington Post