Including Super Delegates, Clinton is expected to have the support of around 900, while Sanders has close to 300.
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Sanders’ road is much tougher.
In fact, 2008 was the last time the party held a contested primary, with “roughly three million fewer Democrats voting in the 15 states that have held caucuses or primaries through Tuesday”.
Cruz told supporters at his victory party in Texas that Trump was a “Washington dealmaker, profane and vulgar, who has a lifelong pattern of using government power for personal gain”.
Trump received support from almost half of GOP voters who described themselves as moderate and also won over about 4 in 10 voters who described themselves as evangelical. “We are going to take our fight…to every one of those states”. She intends to avoid the type of gutter war that Mr Trump has proved so adept at waging, they say, relying instead on her temperament and resume to carry the day, and deploying her husband and President Barack Obama as attack dogs where necessary.
Karen Carew, of Medway, said she voted for Clinton, calling her the most experienced candidate in the race.
Among the experts who signed on Frances Townsend, homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush; Eliot Cohen, a former counselor to the State Department; and Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon comptroller.
Going forward, Trump would have to win 52 per cent of the remaining delegates to claim the nomination.
The Republican contest is wide open as the candidates have mostly focused on bigger states.
Watch Sanders entire speech below.
So why are projections, from NPR to Bloomberg, saying the state’s 76 delegates will be split equally by the two candidates – 38 a piece?
“We have to make America whole again”, she said Wednesday at a rally in NY, trotting out her now-familiar rebuttal to Trump’s rallying cry of “Make America Great Again”. She said the “biggest insult of all was to the American people” and the economy was an “afterthought” during the Republican debate.
All said though, it was not a “very bad” day for Sanders either, as some of his supporters pointed out online. Cruz won at least 99 delegates in the state and Trump got at least 33, with 20 left to be awarded. Caucus-goers backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin, and he garnered one of Nebraska’s electoral votes – making him the first presidential candidate to split Nebraska’s electoral votes.
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In the Virginia Democratic primary, for example (see the chart at the top of this post), Clinton beat Sanders by 40 or more points among voters in counties with small cities and rural counties. Kasich came in second among Vermont’s Republican primary voters, with 30.37 percent.
