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Sanders Campaigning In Cash-Strapped Atlantic City

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Democrats are set to face off Tuesday in West Virginia's primary, but one of the candidates has been campaigning in New Jersey for the past two days.

CBS2's Alice Gainer reported Sen. Bernie Sanders held a rally in cash-strapped Atlantic City Monday morning. The senator from Vermont slammed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and billionaire investor Carl Icahn, telling supporters the pair's greed and recklessness have hurt the city's struggling gaming industry.

"When we talked about the decline of the American middle class and the increase in poverty, we are talking about workers right here that have seen a cut in their compensation," Sanders said.

Icahn owns Atlantic City's Tropicana and Taj Mahal casinos.

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The rally was held next to the now shuttered Trump Plaza. Sanders continues to fight despite trailing Hillary Clinton by several hundred delegates. According to CBS News, Clinton has 2,228 of the 2,383 delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination. Sanders has 1,442.

Meantime, the Democratic front-runner was in Virginia where she held a discussion about women and families.

"It's clear that there are so many challenges facing young families today that we have got to come to grips with," Clinton said.

Sanders is ahead in the polls in West Virginia and has to win 66 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to win the nomination.

Clinton will head to New Jersey Wednesday. The state's primary isn't until June 7.

On the Republican side, the GOP rift widens between those who support the presumptive nominee and those who don't.

Trump is set to meet this week with some congressional Republicans who are not ready to back him, chief among them House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Trump said he isn't too worried about having everyone in the Republican Party support him.

"I think it would be better if it were unified, but I don't think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense," Trump said.

Ryan said he would step down as co-chairman of the Republican National Convention if Trump asked him to.

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