Bernie Sanders beat out former US first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton in his home state of Vermont on Super Tuesday. Sanders won big in Vermont with 86 percent to 14 percent for Hillary Clinton.
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People who are not enrolled in any political party make up more than 53 percent of the registered voters in MA and could vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries.
When added to her massive lead among the party’s superdelegates, Clinton is now in as strong a position to win the Democratic nomination as she’s ever been.
“She’s been there for so long”, Trump told a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. She was back in the state she represented for eight years, back among a coalition of allies from organized labor. But he failed elsewhere in the South, where he had campaigned extensively and early on. Alaska is evenly poised between Cruz and Trump. “He came here twice in the last week, no other candidate was here”.
There were 595 Republican delegates at stake in 11 states.
Six in 10 voters in Southern states said Clinton’s positions on the issues are about right, compared with four in 10 for Sanders. But he has struggled to expand his base beyond young people and liberals.
It was a different story in Sanders’ home state of Vermont, where the two-term senator claimed overwhelming majorities of both men and women, and huge majorities of voters across all age groups.
While Mr. Sanders fought Ms. Clinton to a near-tie in the Iowa caucus and won the New Hampshire primary, the senator from Vermont has failed to win significant support from African American voters.
Clinton entered Tuesday with 546 delegates, including super delegates – the party leaders and members of Congress who can support any candidate.
Including Super Delegates, Clinton is expected to have the support of around 900, while Sanders has close to 300. Bernie Sanders will gain at least 286.
One needs 2,383 delegates for winning the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Her sweeping victories in large states like Texas, Virginia and Georgia give her an edge that is reminiscent of Barack Obama’s delegate lead over Clinton in the 2008 primaries.
A challenge Sanders admits he has is connecting with black voters, especially older ones. Clinton also won in the South Pacific island territory of American Samoa. Clinton also carried Texas, the night’s biggest prize. “You could write a resume for Hillary or Trump, or any of the others, but you couldn’t write a eulogy”. Ohio Gov. John Kasich was polling in third place here, at about 14 percent, just behind Rubio.
GOP voters across the nine Super Tuesday primary states were in a sour mood toward Washington.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his campaign to Lincoln Nebraska.
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“Praying for Ted Cruz tonight”. Marco Rubio, (R) Presidential Candidate.
