ABC News projects Hillary Clinton will win the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, based on the analysis of the vote.
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In her victory speech in Philadelphia, Clinton reached out to Sanders supporters by praising his calls for overhauling the campaign finance system and tackling economic inequality.
Clinton said during her Tuesday night rally in Philadelphia that Trump had accused her of playing the “woman card”, telling supporters, “if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the ‘woman card, ‘ then deal me in”. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, she has 50 percent of the vote, Sanders 48 percent.
That fight is on life support as front-runner Donald Trump picked up a five-state sweep of Tuesday’s contests. “I’m thinking of Linda McMahon for two Senate races and Tom Foley for two governors'”.
A total of 118 pledged Republican delegates were at stake in addition to 54 unbound Pennsylvania delegates.
Unlike after last week’s NY primary – when a more restrained, cordial Trump took the stage following his big win – Trump’s speech Tuesday night was in his usual freewheeling, unpredictable style.
The primary results moved both Trump and Clinton several steps closer to to earning their party’s nomination for the November polls.
If Cruz can win a large share of the state’s 57 delegates on Tuesday next week, it will boost the chances that Trump will not be able to amass the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention in July. She’s leading in polls in every state except Rhode Island. Sanders has 39 but has pledged to spend this summer trying to draw more superdelegates away from Clinton. In most states with exit polling this year, a majority of Republican voters have said they are hoping to elect a president who is a political outsider.
He swept all five primaries, winning landslides of more than 30 percentage points over his rivals Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich of OH, reports New York Times.
To date, Clinton has garnered 1,578 delegates based on primaries and caucuses, compared to 1,232 for Sanders. The third candidate on the Democratic primary ballot, Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, tallied only eight votes, while voters favoring “uncommitted” delegates to the Democratic National Convention cast 30 votes, or 0.79 percent.
Sanders said he has no plans to stop his attacks on Clinton.
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Her wins will make it increasingly hard for Sanders to overtake her lead in delegates, raising questions as to how long he will remain in the race.
