Hillary Clinton won sweeping primary victories in Texas and throughout the South on Super Tuesday, a sign that the Democratic presidential front-runner was vaulting to a commanding lead in the race for the nomination and leaving rival Bernie Sanders diminishing space to stage a comeback.
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Clinton spoke to supporters in Miami as the results were coming in across the country.
“If it was such a very good speech, clearly you want to share it with the American people”, Sanders told a raucous crowd of about 2,400 people packed in a downtown theater here. That way, he explained, the two can try and carve a path to the nomination through OH and Florida, which are winner-take-all contests, with 66 and 99 delegates respectively. Republicans voted in 11 states, with 595 delegates. But we have to be prepared to fight, organize, and win against anything the financial and political establishment are going to throw at us. At the end of tonight 15 states will have voted. Regardless of his losses, just after losing Georgia and Virginia, Sanders spoke to supporters in Vermont and reminded them that this isn’t a general election, so the numbers, while depressing, didn’t matter as much.
“Some other things that the Clinton campaign is not going to be so happy about”, Welker said. In the big states, second place finishes really can matter. Republicans on Super Tuesday have an opportunity to win about half of the 1,137 delegates needed to claim the nomination. In the days before Super Tuesday, Bill Clinton zig-zagged across the state to stump for his wife, including an appearance in Fort Worth on Monday. He discounts an incessant emphasis on delegate counts, arguing it does not take into account the dynamics of a modern presidential campaign.
Hillary Clinton is hoping to cement her lead on the Democrat side, holding her latest rally in Minnesota. Sanders has the money to keep in competition-he raised more than $40 million in small donations during the month of February-but he needs to be able to point to evidence of momentum. “It doesn’t seem like the Republicans respect anybody’s rights” except the “wealthy and well-connected”, said Clinton. They’ve now engaged those super-PACs against us. If he wins all or most of those states, along with Vermont, Sanders has a “comeback kid” scenario he can present.
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While Sanders is projected to take three states on Super Tuesday, Clinton is said to take Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Massachusetts and Tennessee. MI and MS poll their voters next Tuesday.
