UNITED STATES: MICHAEL DUKAKIS SECURES THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION OVER JESSE JACKSON IN THE FINAL FOUR PRIMARIES OF 1988.

Record ID: 337801

  • Title: UNITED STATES: MICHAEL DUKAKIS SECURES THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION OVER JESSE JACKSON IN THE FINAL FOUR PRIMARIES OF 1988.
  • Date: 8th June 1988
  • Summary: 1. GVs George Bush comments on Dukakis win. (2 SHOTS) 0.34 2. GVs Dukakis accepts victory in primaries (4 SHOTS) 1.10 3. CU PULL BACK TO GV and ZOOM IN TO SV and GV Jesse Jackson's response (2 SHOTS) 1.41 SPEECH TRANSCRIPT: BUSH: (SEQ 1) "Tonight one chapter ends and the main race begins, and I cannot wait to go out into the political arena to spell out the differences between this candidate and Michael Dukakis." DUKAKIS: (SEQ 2) "The news tonight has gotten better and better. First New Jersey then Montana and New Mexico and now with the polls closed here in California my friends, California has put us over the top. Now the coast to coast marathon has reached the Pacific and tomorrow the race to the finish line begins." JACKSON: (SEQ 3) "Tonight my friends there is a sense of victory in the air." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd June 1988 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES AND ORANGE CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEEAU4LTUM1KGERYRHEMTYY26L
  • Story Text: LOS ANGELES AND ORANGE CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

    Michael Dukakis secured the Democratic Presidential nomination on Tuesday with victories over Jesse Jackson in the final four primaries of 1988. Dukakis has won the necessary 2,081 delegates in California, New Jersey, New Mexico and Montana he needed to capture the nomination and is now preparing to face Republican George Bush in the November election.

    Dukakis defeated civil rights leader Jackson 65-32 per cent in New Jersey and won by similar margins in New Mexico and Montana. Early returns in California showed him with a two-to-one lead. Jackson indicated that he would like to be on Dukakis' Vice-Presidential list and said the votes he had won earned him serious consideration. Bush, who secured his nomination in April, took the opportunity of Dukakis's win to portray him as an ultra-liberal and as being naive and inexperienced in foreign matters. He said he would use the campaign to highlight the differences between Dukakis and himself.

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