Sen. Bernie Sanders notched a come-from-behind win over Hillary Clinton in the Indiana Democratic presidential primary.
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Political attention turns to the Hoosier State on Tuesday night, where both the Indiana Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests could be especially consequential. Cruz blasted Trump as a “pathological liar, “utterly amoral” and a “narcissist” after his rival repeated a tabloid story that alleged that Cruz’s father had ties to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald”.
Sanders said on Sunday his path to nomination is hard, but not impossible.
That’s despite Kasich and Cruz teaming up to try to slow Trump’s roll into the July Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Trump didn’t mention that Sanders has since retreated from his own comment and said that Clinton, a lawyer, former senator and onetime secretary of state, is intelligent and experienced. Most polls show Trump with a comfortable lead over Cruz – and anything other than a win right now for the billionaire real estate mogul would be seen as an upset.
Clinton has pushed back on Sanders by pointing out that she holds a strong lead among pledged delegates and has received almost 2.7 million more popular votes than Sanders has.
He said that while he wasn’t sure if Cruz likes him, he praised his former rival as a “smart” and “tough guy” who had an “amazing future” ahead of him.
Polls indicate a fairly tight race her in IN, with Clinton slightly ahead.
Sanders’ outsider persona also is somewhat limited in its appeal in California, as more than four-in-five primary voters say that President Obama has done an “excellent” (39%) or “good” (43%) job. After visiting the state last week for two events tailored to the manufacturing industry, Clinton’s schedule did not include a return visit until the campaign began planning Sunday’s rally the day before.
Sanders spoke to thousands of supporters in Louisville, Ky., before Indiana’s results were in.
As it stands now, Trump has 996 delegates to Cruz’s 564, and the GOP front-runner needs just 42 percent of all the remaining delegates to get to the magic number of 1,237, according to an NPR analysis.
“As of today, we have now won 17 primaries and caucuses”.
The analysis, which was challenged by the Clinton campaign, said the fund had transferred $3.8 million to the state parties, then quickly transferred $3.3 million of the money to the DNC.
Several top Indiana Democrats predict she will eke out a narrow victory, despite the campaign’s decision not to spend money on advertising here. Democrats distribute delegates proportionately in all states, so the only way for Sanders to close Clinton’s delegate lead is to win all future contests by huge margins and convince many superdelegates – party leaders and elected officials free to support either candidate – to switch their votes to him, even in states Clinton won.
Will superdelegates flip their support?
The Sanders campaign signed a similar joint-fundraising agreement with the DNC that appears largely inactive.
The latest survey results have Trump leading Clinton for the first time since last October.
Hillary Clinton and U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, D-7th District, at a rally May 1. “Now if it doesn’t pull together, I think I’m still going to win”.
By winning as many delegates as possible, he would have more sway at the Democratic National Convention in June and could have more part in shaping the party’s agenda.
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“We deserve leaders who will tear down barriers, not build walls between us”, Clinton added.
