Because it is a caucus state, Minnesota typically favors candidates with organized campaigns who appeal to their parties’ ideological bases.
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The win in Minnesota should build some momentum for the Rubio campaign as he has struggled to even come in second-place in many states on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton’s 126 votes.
“There’s a lot at stake and my mom is really the person that is ready to be our democratic nominee”, Chelsea Clinton said. Bernie Sanders won the Minnesota caucuses Tuesday night, the Associated Press reported, marking precious victories on a night when the front-runners in each party were scoring big.
At the headquarters of the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Wright building, a former factory in St Paul, young people were busy working the phones a couple of hours before the caucus started.
“We think we’re going to do very well in Minnesota on Super Tuesday”, Sanders said.
Sanders spent more time in Minnesota than any other candidate, rallying in the state’s most liberal pockets in recent days while Clinton largely relied on surrogates until last-minute trips to a Minneapolis coffee shop and marketplace. He was trailed by Cruz with Trump a distant third.
But Trobiani noted Trump’s wide lead in the GOP race.
“Trump just gives you this sense of hope that he will make change happen”, Sheri Auclair, of Minnetonka, said. Norm Coleman, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen, U.S. Rep. John Kline and two-dozen Minnesota legislators.
“Somebody is going to have to beat him in the next few weeks”, Pawlenty said.
“Marco Rubio appears to be a candidate who has taken up the mantle of representation of the middle class, and I think we desperately need that”, he said.
Voters at the Stevens County caucus said they were impressed with Sanders’ economic policies and lack of corporate support.
As citizens stream to precinct caucus sites around Minnesota, Jon and Jennifer McCullough are making sure no one misses their support for Ted Cruz. “I can pick and choose either one”, Ventura said. This year, Rubio and Texas Sen. Both he and Clinton advertised heavily in the state in the lead-up to caucuses.
Democrats are also vying for the attention of 16 so-called superdelegates, who are elected officials and party bigwigs who can do whatever they want at the national convention regardless of what happens on Super Tuesday.
The group’s volunteer coordinator, Marit Brock, tells the newspaper that the plan is to attend both Democratic and Republican caucuses to talk to neighbors about knowing where candidates stand on preventing gun violence.
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The victories of Mr Rubio and Mr Sanders, who also won Vermont, Oklahoma and Colorado, are expected to bolster their willingness to stay in the race in spite of the overwhelming wins scored by Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton in most other states. “We are actually participating in Super Tuesday”.
