Democratic voters across each of the nine states had very different priorities as they chose between Hillary Clinton and Sanders. Bernie Sanders in MA – a Super Tuesday voting state the Vermont lawmaker is counting on to win. Voters overwhelmingly see Sanders as most honest and trustworthy with 59% compared to Clinton’s 36%.
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In a victory rally in Miami, Clinton said, “It’s clear tonight that the stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we’re hearing on the other side has never been lower”. So, after the 66 was divvied up proportionally according to the state party’s caucus rules, 38 to Sanders and 28 to Clinton, the superdelegates were free to choose which candidate to support. Minnesota had 77 delegates up for grabs, but Sanders won’t win them all.
Over the weekend, the Washington Post published a clip-and-save paragraph that established Bernie Sanders’ expectations for Super Tuesday: “Sanders’ strategists think he can win in five of the 11 states that vote Tuesday: Minnesota, Massachusetts, Vermont, Oklahoma and Colorado”.
News projected Donald Trump the victor of the Republican primary as polls closed at 8:00 p.m., and before any votes were even counted.
After handily winning the South Carolina Democratic primary earlier this month, Clinton’s performance on Super Tuesday has led many analysts to conclude that the candidate was well on the path to securing the Democratic nomination. “We’re going to not allow billionaires and their super PACs to destroy American democracy”.
“A vote in the global primary carries a lot more weight in terms of numbers of vote per delegate”, she said. Clinton also dominated in SC over the weekend, a state where black people account for 28 percent of the population. Sanders and former President Bill Clinton visited the state.
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The “dynamic nature of this process” means Sanders can rise if Clinton’s stock starts to fall for some reason, Devine said. Three of the next six Democratic primaries and caucuses are in extremely white states – Kansas, Nebraska and Maine.
