U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders won Saturday’s Democratic caucus in the Western state of Wyoming, but even in victory he failed to gain ground on his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the race to become U.S. president.
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“What they’re trying to do is subvert the movement with crooked shenanigans”, Trump told a crowd of thousands gathered in a packed airport hangar in Rochester, New York.
In the past few weeks, Clinton, who still has a commanding lead in pledged delegates, has lost seven of the past eight states to Bernie Sanders. And, in an appropriate outcome for the Equality State, both candidates will take home seven delegates each.
During an interview that aired Sunday on CNN, Sanders said that while he believes that Clinton has the experience to be president, her initial support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and her previous support for various global trade agreements raised red flags. “We have an excellent chance to win in OR, and to win in California”.
Speaking in the loft space in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood just hours after losing to Sanders in the Wyoming presidential caucus, she said that she wants to “send a strong message” in the NY primary and start unifying the Democratic Party. But he has also underlined the limitations of his challenge by repeating that he will back establishment candidate Hillary Clinton if she eventually emerges victorious. Cruz’s campaign has worked hard in states where the delegate allocation process is more complex, such as Colorado, where the US senator from Texas garnered 34 delegates on Saturday.
Trump organized late in Colorado and left the state convention up to his organizers, and spent about a half-hour on Saturday touring the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan. He has struggled to appeal to minority voters – a large part of the Democratic primary electorate – who have overwhelmingly backed Clinton.
Both candidates are gearing up for a crucial matchup in NY. We have a path to victory and our intention is to win the Democratic nomination and then win the general election,”he said”.
Going into Wyoming, Clinton had more than half of the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination. Unless Bernie Sanders can overtake Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates, the superdelegates are not going to flip to Bernie Sanders.
First, the Republicans: Trump dominates with 54 percent support among likely GOP primary voters. So far, he’s winning about 45 percent.
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The AP delegate count now puts Trump at 743, Cruz at 545, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 143. Marco Rubio, who suspended his campaign, has 171 delegates.
