The Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic nomination got a big boost Saturday as he is poised to run away with the Washington state and Alaska caucuses. Given that, it seems hypocritical for Clinton and her supports to suggest Bernie Sanders should drop out of the race. “They want an economy that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors”, he added. Other social media reports pegged local support for Sanders as considerably more lopsided in some places.
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“With your help we’re going to win right here in Wisconsin”, he said.
According to an Associated Press analysis, Sanders would need to get more than 67 percent of the total remaining delegates won in the primaries and uncommitted superdelegates to take the nomination. “But we knew things were going to improve as we head west”.
Those elected to attend will take part in a “fan out” process similar to the caucus process that will decide how 16 of the state’s 20 delegates to the national convention are proportioned. When the AP called Alaska for Sanders at 5:21pm ET, he had close to 79 percent of the vote with 37 percent precincts reporting.
Ms Clinton has 47% of the Democratic vote, barely edging out Mr Sanders at 46%.
“If we can do well in Washington, do well in Hawaii, do well in Alaska, we have a road to victory”, Sanders said this week.
Kirsa Hughes-Skandijs said her strong belief in Bernie Sanders as a candidate brought her to her first caucus.
Despite the huge gap with Clinton that he needs to fill, Sanders has refused to throw in the towel, repeatedly stressing that his grassroots campaign is heading all the way to July’s nominating convention in Philadelphia. Washington, along with Alaska and Hawaii, is holding a Democratic caucus on Saturday.
Sanders’ 2 million-and counting donors are essentially double Clinton’s. She typically votes for the Green Party at the presidential level and says odds are good she’ll do that again if Sanders doesn’t become the Democratic nominee. She hopes to lock up an even larger share of delegates in five Northeastern contests a week later. With its long history of progressive activism, the midwestern industrial state offers the Vermont senator a chance to repeat the kind of surprise victory he managed in MI, and to secure his support with working-class voters whom Clinton hopes to win.
Sanders, 74, has also always been critical of US foreign policy and was an early opponent of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Meanwhile, the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has told the New York Times he would consider stopping USA oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight Islamic State. Duque, 35, said the system is broken and Sanders is the only one who will make changes all at once to fix it instead of approaching it incrementally. “They’ve been cheated”, he told cheering supporters at the event.
