Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has cut into Hillary Clinton’s lead by more than two dozen delegates, based on new data from Washington state, but his chances of winning the nomination haven’t gotten much better. According to our count, 500 superdelegates are backing Clinton against just 42 for Sanders; that translates into 498 and 41 convention votes, respectively, because the superdelegates representing overseas Democrats have a half-vote each. The early projections point to a win for Bernie Sanders, though polling is light and the nature of the caucus make it hard to project. Sanders notes he has received the support of over nine million voters, and promises “I will not allow them be silenced at the Democratic National Convention”.
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In Guam, the party said Clinton won 60 percent of the vote to earn four of the seven delegates at stake.
The Clinton campaign and her supporters have struggled to find a successful strategy for pushing Sanders out of the race. Clinton eventually headed to an event at Oakland’s La Escuelita Elementary School where she spoke to a packed house in Oakland.
Bernie Sanders has said he’s staying in the Democratic presidential race until the last primary, and the month of May might give him another good reason to do so.
NPR found tape of a 1976 gubernatorial debate where Sanders talked about income inequality – about “the richest one-half of 1 percent” earning as much as the bottom 27 percent. To get to the magic number of 2,383, the former secretary of state needs to win 16 percent of all remaining delegates and 73 percent of pledged delegates. We came up with a total of 713 named superdelegates (a handful of slots are still vacant), then used a mix of official biographies, news reports, social-media postings and other sources to determine each superdelegate’s gender, race/ethnicity and, in most cases, age. The Republicans had appeared for weeks to be headed for a contested convention, but Trump is now the presumptive nominee.
Meanwhile, Mali Kigasari, an Oakland resident and Clinton supporter, arrived too late to enter the auditorium and exchanged words with Sanders fans whose chants kept her from hearing Clinton speak. “They’re not enticing me to take a second look at him”.
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As for how people become delegates, Duval County Republican Chairman Lake Ray said delegates are selected by party leaders, not Republican voters. She says the gap between her and Sanders is far wider than it was between Obama and her in 2008.
