Sanders, however, listed the Democratic Party as his party affiliation in his statement of candidacy for his presidential run. He says his campaign raised $2 million on Tuesday alone.
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March also saw the Sanders campaign set a new fundraising record, with the $44 million for the month, largely in small online donations.
Throughout this presidential campaign, Clinton has routinely touted her ties to the Democratic Party, a jab at Sanders, a politician who has caucused with Democrats since 1991 but has never been a member of the party. Screams erupted and the crowd broke into chants of “Bernie!”
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Sanders also secured his win by maintaining significant strength with young voters, winning 81 percent of the votes cast from those under age 30 and 73 percent of all Democrats under age 45.
For Sanders, Wisconsin was the latest in a string of victories that have given him an incentive to keep competing against Clinton. She held a “Women for Hillary” town hall meeting in Brooklyn, where she focused squarely on Republicans and rebuked Trump for “peddling prejudice” about women and Muslims.
Polls have closed in the Midwestern battleground of Wisconsin.
Clinton tweeted congratulations to Sanders, adding “to all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!”
So far, he has won seven out of the last eight caucuses and primaries.
Clinton and Sanders will face off in the Empire State, Clinton’s home turf, on April 19.
Earlier Tuesday, it was clear that Clinton was moving beyond Wisconsin.
About 45 percent of Democratic voters say trade with other countries takes away jobs in this country, while almost 4 in 10 see trade as beneficial, according to early results of exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research.
It was only then that Clinton conceded.
This time, she campaigned lightly here, focusing strategically on cities in congressional districts that played to her strengths, including Milwaukee, where she is popular with a large African American electorate. The difference could be important: in FiveThirtyEight’s pre-primary analysis, Harry Enten suggested Sanders needed a win in the neighborhood of 16 points to avoid losing ground. She emphasized her commitment to supporting Democratic candidates at the state and local levels – a salient issue for a state party that has been waging fierce ideological battles against Gov. Scott Walker (R).
From the New York Times: “Mr. Trump’s loss was his most significant setback since Mr. Cruz narrowly defeated him in Iowa, the campaign’s first nominating contest”.
At this time in 2008, Obama’s pledged-delegate lead over Clinton fluctuated between 120 and 140 delegates – about half of the margin by which Clinton now leads Sanders.
When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has a wider lead 1,740 to 1,055.
Sanders aims to catch Clinton in pledged delegates – those won in primary elections – once California votes June 7. Kasich, who has won only one state, can not reach the critical number in remaining contests.
To win a prolonged convention fight, a candidate would need support from the individuals selected as delegates. The Mr Trump plan cited US$24 billion a year in remittances to Mexico from its citizens in the United States, most of whom it said were there illegally.
And she called Sanders “a relatively new Democrat” and said “I’m not even sure he is one”. And as in prior contests, voters rated Sanders as far more trustworthy than Clinton.
Tuesday morning, as Sanders mingled with voters over breakfast at Blue’s Egg in Milwaukee, Dale Dulberger, 66, of Wauwatosa, Wis., came to greet the senator after casting his vote for him.
Sanders said some banks are too big and could be broken up either by “having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail”. “His proposals are idealistic, but that’s what a president is supposed to do”.
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“I don’t think he can narrow the gap materially in pledged delegates in Wisconsin”, Joel Benenson, the former secretary of state’s strategist and main pollster, told MSNBC. “We win in New York State, we are on our way to the White House”. The headline: “Bernie’s Sandy Hook shame”. The paper lambasted the senator for his position opposing legal liability for gunmakers after the massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in 2012.
