Pressure is increasing on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to end his campaign, with Democratic Party leaders warning that his continued presence in the race is undermining efforts to beat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
The new concerns come after Sanders’ recent primary election wins over frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the states of Indiana and West Virginia.
Those victories have provided his supporters with new momentum heading into next week’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon.
In the 2008 US presidential race, Clinton fought her primary bid against then-US Senator Barack Obama well into June.
Though Clinton has for the past few weeks largely focused her rhetoric on Trump, her aides say the two-front effort hampers her ability to campaign against Sanders and Trump at the same time.
It also means Clinton is spending time in primary states, rather than battlegrounds that will decide the general election.
Sanders’ determination…