Sanders entered Tuesday’s contest on a winning streak, but one that’s hardly denting Clinton’s delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a caucus night rally as his wife, Heidi, listens Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. The win gives critics of Donald Trump hope that they can stop the GOP front-runner’s rise to the party nomination. Cruz sealed a victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses, winning on the strength of his relentless campaigning and support from his party’s diehard conservatives. “But I am also working with the Democratic senators and members of Congress right now who have chose to go for a $12 minimum wage nationwide – with encouragement for states like NY to go even higher and then to index it to the median wage”.
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For Sanders, Wisconsin was favorable territory, with an overwhelming white electorate and liberal pockets of voters, and the Vermont senator’s victory gives him a fresh burst of momentum.
He still must win 67 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Cruz is campaigning in the lead up to the The New Hampshire primary, February 9.
Sanders’ success at fundraising will allow him to take the fight all the way to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia in July, making it hard for Clinton to pivot to the general election like she’s been trying to do. Dianne Feinstein brought Clinton and Obama together for a meeting, few Democrats are in position to broker peace between Clinton and Sanders. The Clinton campaign is betting that Sanders is especially vulnerable on the gun issue in NY, which tightened its laws in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Cruz says, “I am more and more convinced our campaign is going to earn the 1,237 delegates need to win”.
Still, Sanders’s victory is not a game-changer.
Trump is the favorite in the next primary on April 19 in his home state of NY.
At stake for the Democrats are 86 delegates, and because the delegates are awarded based on the proportion of votes a candidate receives, a close race is unlikely to yield a major delegate haul for Clinton or Sanders.
Instead, the victories fell to Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz, who have been climbing in popularity as the race has matured and as party conventions near.
Sanders talked about the support he’s seeing from young people coming out to vote at the polls.
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The former secretary of state said she plans to reconnect with NY voters after eight years as the state’s senator from 2001 through 2008. At the same time, almost 4 in 10 say they’re scared about what Trump would do as president, while only about 1 in 10 say that about either Cruz or Kasich, according to early results of exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research.
