Both candidates are gearing up for a crucial matchup in NY.
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Hillary Clinton is set to make campaign stops on Long Island today.
H. CLINTON: Well, I think that we should look at where we are.
The Wyoming victory underscores continued support for Sanders among the liberals who have helped propel him to victory in states such as Wisconsin and Washington in recent weeks.
Referring to his large deficit among superdelegates, the party leaders and elected officials who have overwhelmingly backed Clinton, but who could still change their minds, he said: “I think a lot of these superdelegates are going to be looking around them”.
Sanders took 56 percent of the vote to 44 percent for Clinton, for a 12-point margin.
“We are on a path to the nomination, but I need to win big here in NY, because the sooner I can become the nominee, I can turn and unify the Democratic Party like I did with President Obama in 2008”, Clinton said.
Sanders’s campaign also released a new TV ad produced by movie director Spike Lee that will air soon in NY.
“We congratulate Senator Sanders on a spirited campaign in Wyoming”. Sanders said to cheers.
Sanders touted his chances in interviews across the networks Sunday and again questioned Clinton’s judgment. The Trump advisor, Alan Cobb, went on to say that if there had been a traditional primary “we would have done very well here”.
The numbers are similar for Sanders, who was born and raised in Brooklyn before representing Vermont in Congress: 28 percent definitely view him as a New Yorker, 30 percent said “somewhat” and 33 percent said they don’t view him as a New Yorker. Sanders chalked up Clinton’s lead to her performance in the South and argued that he’s doing better with independents.
It’s a good day for the insurgent candidates in both presidential races. The candidates dialed back their criticism of one another on Friday. In the nearby Rocky Mountains, Texas Senator Ted Cruz locked up all of Colorado’s GOP delegates on Saturday, as he tried to slow frontrunner Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination.
Cruz would have to win more than 90 percent of the remaining delegates in order to earn the majority needed to clinch the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July.
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Paul Manafort, the veteran political strategist Trump hired to oversee his delegate operation, accused the Cruz campaign of bullying delegates into backing the senator, something the Trump campaign planned to protest.
