That’s what happened in 2008, when Clinton narrowly lost the Missouri primary to Barack Obama.
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders drew more than 3,200 supporters to a rally at a high school gym here as he carried his campaign for the White House on Friday to rallies in Idaho, Utah and Arizona.
Overnight, Clinton was declared the victor of the last remaining unresolved primary from Tuesday’s five contests, in Missouri. Wins on Tuesday would give Sanders fresh momentum in the contest, granting him months to continue criticizing Clinton’s positions on issues that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wants to put front and center in the general election.
The 68-year-old former Secretary of State has swept the “Super Tuesday 2.0” by bagging Florida and North Carolina while also posting crucial victories over Sanders in the industrial Midwest by taking OH and IL. Obama, it is said, believes that the Democrats need to come together to prevent Trump, the Republicans leading candidate, from exploiting an opening. Democrats award delegates based on the share of the vote, both statewide and in congressional districts.
Owing to her big primary wins in the South, Clinton has 214 more pledged delegates than rival Bernie Sanders. They are split between those who doubt whether Trump is a true conservative and others who fear his nomination would lead the party to a crushing defeat in November, assuming Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
All of the states most favourable to Clinton have already voted, including the entire Deep South. The states most favourable to Sanders are still on the calendar. And some Democratic leaders say the party needs white male voters to win the presidency, raise money and, like it or not, maintain credibility as a broad-based national coalition.
“We are literally about halfway through”, Weaver said. Her series of victories added significantly to her overall delegate count, putting her even further ahead of Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination (she now has 1,606 delegates to Sanders’s 851). Clinton had more than twice the number of delegates as Sanders heading into Tuesday’s primaries, and the day’s results won’t change the election math all that much. “To those who supported Marco, who worked so hard, we welcome you with open arms”, he said.
Still, as the field of candidates grows smaller, many voters seem more and more disenchanted with their options, there are outlier camps rooting for an independent bid for Sanders if he loses the Democratic nomination – or for former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg to throw in his hat as an independent dark horse.
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Some conservatives remain adamantly opposed to Trump winning the Republican nomination.
