WASHINGTON | The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
12:15 p.m.
Bill Clinton told a Harlem congregation that as president, his wife would lift some of the economic barriers that keep many stuck in low-wage jobs.
The former Democratic president spoke Sunday at the Antioch Baptist Church. He was accompanied by Rep. Charles Rangel, who Clinton said had helped him to put more police on crime-ridden Harlem streets.
Clinton said that the next president would have to rebuild people’s trust in government, instead of what he called today’s political “screaming and yelling.”
He implored Harlem residents to again vote for Hillary Clinton. He said that as a Democratic senator from New York, she already had fought for their economic and health care equality.
The Antioch church was one of three in Harlem that Bill Clinton visited on Sunday.
10:55 a.m.
Republicans seem to be on their way to preparing for a contested convention this summer — based on the belief that no candidate may clinch the nomination with enough delegates before them.
Does Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton envision that scenario?
“No,” she makes clear to CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I intend to have the number of delegates that are required to be nominated.”
To date, Clinton has 1,287 delegates based on primaries and caucuses to Bernie Sanders’ 1,037.
When including superdelegates — those are party officials who can back any candidate — Clinton has 1,756, or 74 percent of the number needed to clinch the nomination. Sanders has 1,068.
Sanders has been on a winning streak in state contests, but Clinton is confident about the New York primary April 19 and later votes.
And she’s hoping for a “unified” party so Democrats can turn their focus toward the eventual GOP nominee.
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10:15 a.m.
President Barack Obama says “America’s got the best cards” and is the “envy of the world,” but he worries that political divisions could hold back the country.
He tells “Fox News Sunday” that “this can be our century, just like the 20th century was — as long as we don’t tear each other apart.” The two-term Democratic president — who leaves office in January — says that’s because American politics “value sensationalism or conflict over cooperation, and we don’t have the ability to compromise.”
Obama says that “if we get that part right, nobody can stop us.”
He says that increasingly Democrats and Republicans “don’t hear each other” and he hopes the political dynamic can change.
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9:50 a.m.
John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) is painting a gloomy picture for Republicans on all levels if either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz is the party’s presidential nominee in November.
The Ohio governor is citing “great concern” in the party — and not just about the White House race, but what happens if “we get blown out” in that contest.
Under that scenario, Kasich tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “we would lose seats all the way from the statehouse to the courthouse” — meaning races all down the ballot.
He thinks that’ll be “a big consideration” at the GOP convention this summer. Kasich’s hope for the nomination is based on the idea that no candidate wraps up enough delegates before the convention — and that he can emerge there.
Bill Clinton told a Harlem congregation that as president, his wife would lift some of the economic barriers that keep many stuck in low-wage jobs.
The former Democratic president spoke Sunday at the Antioch Baptist Church. He was accompanied by Rep. Charles Rangel, who Clinton said had helped him to put more police on crime-ridden Harlem streets.
Clinton said that the next president would have to rebuild people’s trust in government – instead of what he called today’s political “screaming and yelling.”
He implored Harlem residents to again vote for Hillary Clinton. He said that as a Democratic senator from New York, she already had fought for their economic and health care equality.
The Antioch church was one of three in Harlem that Bill Clinton visited on Sunday.