Sanders has scheduled a late night Monday rally at the Auditorium Theatre after campaigning in Chicago on Friday night in southwest suburban Summit and Saturday morning with Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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Almost 700 delegates are at stake in Tuesday’s primaries and will be awarded proportionally, adding to Sanders’ hard path. Florida holds almost one-third of the day’s delegate slate, giving Clinton the opportunity to build to her delegate pile even if she narrowly loses the Midwest states.
Sanders urged the crowd to head to the polls March 22.
Still, Sanders’ campaign is pushing hard to gain voter support in Arizona and the other states holding Democratic caucuses on Tuesday, Idaho and Utah.
The timeline The first results will be available when polls close at 12.30pm NZT in North Carolina and Ohio.
The Sanders campaign has long realized that catching up to Clinton among pledged delegates was going to be very hard, but the senator and his team believed they could nevertheless shift the momentum in their direction. Bernie Sanders. All four have been broadcasting TV ads in Missouri.
Sanders’s opposition to trade deals as US job killers – and his repeated reminders that Clinton supported NAFTA – likely helped him in the Wolverine State, where the manufacturing industry has been decimated.
Jones said Kasich’s and Rubio’s campaigns pulled out of Missouri to focus efforts elsewhere.
Up to this point, she’s been winning about 68 percent.
Bernie Sanders fell so far behind Hillary Clinton Tuesday night that it’s all-but-impossible for him to catch her, barring some sudden and seismic change in the race.
A decisive win in Florida, Tuesday’s biggest delegate prize, left her on track to expand an already-commanding lead.
In AP’s survey last month, many superdelegates expressed concern that Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, might not be able to withstand opposition from a GOP nominee. She was thinking about the hardships single mothers have to go through, she said, and was moved by Clinton’s message to lift the middle class.
“When it came down whether you stand with corporate America, the people who wrote these agreements, or whether you stand with the working people of this country, I proudly stood with the workers”, Sanders said in Youngstown, Ohio.
The list of 717 unpledged delegates, also called superdelegates, includes 20 “distinguished party leaders”, 21 Democratic governors, 46 Democratic members of the U.S. Senate, 193 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 435 elected members of the Democratic National Committee.
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Dusting off remnants of her OH organization and reviving support from her 2008 primary win, when she defeated Barack Obama 54 percent to 44 percent, Clinton showed strength. As of January 31, the Sanders campaign had less than $15 million at its disposal, whereas Clinton had more than $32 million. In each of the five states, about half of voters say they prefer a candidate who’s an outsider, while about 4 in 10 want one with political experience. Neither Sanders nor Cruz has said whether he will ask for a recount.
