That 214-vote gap is narrower than in a recent tally by the Associated Press, which credits Sanders with 1,030 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 1,280. That frustrated the Sanders camp and delighted the Clinton’s team-just as the allotment of Wyoming delegates frustrated backers of Barack Obama in 2008, after his 62-38 win in the state yielded only a 7-5 division in his favor.
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For Ohio Gov. John Kasich, it’s about winning enough delegates to keep all candidates from locking up the majority. That helps Clinton maintain her lead over Sanders.
More than 500 Democratic delegates are at stake in the two states, and Clinton already has the backing of 51 party leaders and elected officials there who will attend the convention as super-delegates.
Trump is blasting the delegate system and said whoever wins the most votes during the primary process should be the nominee. Sanders has 1,068. “But we should be not only unified but joyful about doing that work because there is nothing we can’t do if we make up our minds to work together to achieve those goals”, Clinton said.
On the Republican side, more than 3,000 people at Colorado’s Republican state convention picked the remaining 13 delegates.
“Thank you Colorado for another resounding victory!”
The New York businessman has kept an atypically low profile on the campaign trail, and has reorganized his campaign to include a new “convention manager”, Paul Manafort, to counter Cruz’s climb in the delegate race. Marco Rubio, who suspended his campaign, has 167 delegates.
Launching this week, the ad bashes the GOP front-runner by name and features his own heated campaign rhetoric on punishing women who have had abortions, calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and banning Muslims from entering the US.
“It’s easy to talk about “making America great again” but the real question is, ‘Do you understand the principles and values that make America great in the first place?'” he said.
In a report, CNBC called Trump’s campaign as “disorganised and frustrated”. Ted Cruz trailing with 15 percent. He’s sure it won’t be Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. She added that the sooner the nomination fight ends, “the sooner we can go after the Republicans full time”. Key to her drive is a win April 19 in NY, which she represented in the U.S. Senate.
In previous elections, NY has been less of a spotlight location, since republicans and democrats have normally chosen their final candidate at this point.
Cruz said, “We’re going to see millions of new jobs coming back from Mexico and China”.
We have won eight out of nine last contests.
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But he is scoring as a potentially better champion for the Democrats, at least right now.
