Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, the last contest before the April 19 NY primary. “Alright, news bulletin. We just won Wyoming”, Sanders said to a New York City crowd at LaGuardia Community College.
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Sanders, a USA senator from Vermont, has eroded Clinton’s lead in California, according to a Field Poll released on Friday. That has given rise to his talk of potentially moving ahead of Clinton in pledged delegates, of a related battle to convert Democratic super delegates – elected officials and party leaders who have automatic seats at the convention and are free to support whomever they choose – to his column, even to suggestions of an open convention in Philadelphia.
The nomination will go to whoever wins 2,383 delegates. “There is no question, I think, that we have the momentum….”
While the majority of the 4,763 delegates are pledged, 15 percent are held by so-called superdelegates, who get to vote however they like and could hold the key to a tight contest. “Sanders’ supporters will enable us to add delegates to our total in many caucus states as the process moves from precinct to county and then to the final state and congressional district level”, Weaver said. “That’s why I’m really grateful that all the House members in our delegation have supported her. That the people who have achieved the most themselves in Congress for the American people are supporting her. They want a doer”. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, Clinton did point out Sanders’ difficulties in handling an interview with the New York Daily News, noting “he hadn’t done his homework”.
“We’re fighting for every vote by talking to Californians about why Hillary Clinton is the only candidate in this race who will break down the barriers that hold people back and deliver real results”, Amanda Renteria, Hillary for America national political director, said in a statement to Reuters.
Donald Trump has waded into the debate over whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president. Yet it wasn’t all bad news for Hillary Clinton, who did better than expected.
The specter of a contested convention, a relatively rare event in recent USA politics, looms much larger in the Republican race. Sanders was optimistic that a win in the state would continue a chain reaction and help him pick up wins in other key battlegrounds.
A Clinton campaign aide said their “secret sauce” in Wyoming was the state’s onerous vote-by-mail rules that required anyone voting by mail to have voted as a Democrat in the 2014 midterms. And that means sowing doubts about the effect that a Trump or Cruz nomination would have on the party.
In Wyoming’s Republican contest last month, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas beat NY billionaire Donald Trump, the party’s front-runner.
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“We are closing very fast”, Sanders said.
