But Clinton now leads Sanders on several measures – raw vote, pledged delegates and the overall delegate count including superdelegates – and is on a almost unstoppable track to capture the Democratic nomination by next month.
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Trump and Sanders have both criticized their parties’ nomination processes and gone after their opponents for what they call unfair tactics.
Trump’s support in the race has remained roughly steady overall since March, but a small gender gap has grown in the last month as Trump’s backing among men has increased.
“The decades-old Republican strategy of exploiting unfounded fear of immigrants, minorities, the poor, the LGBT community and more, all for political gain, have laid the groundwork for Donald Trump”, Schultz said. Still, about two-thirds of Republican primary voters think the candidate with the most support heading into their party’s nominating convention should be the nominee, even without the majority of delegates as required by party rules.
Kasich’s campaign said the OH governor will stay in the race as Trumps’ sole Republican contender.
The practical import of this shifty standard is that Team Sanders will be justified in treating Clinton’s nomination as in question until the first ballot in Philadelphia has ended, which in turn will make challenges on credentials, rules, and, most of all, the platform in order.
Sen. Bernie Sanders received a boost Tuesday night when he upset Hillary Clinton in the in primary 52.7% to 47.3%.
Party leaders serving as superdelegates have traditionally cast their votes for the candidate with the most pledged delegates who is leading in the popular vote, helping to put them over the top.
Mr Trump now has at least 1,047 delegates, Mr Cruz exits the race with 565, while Mr Kasich has 152.
Sanders said on Sunday that he brought in about $26 million in April for his campaign, a steep decline from the $46 million he raised in March.
“We can not let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into Donald Trump’s hands”, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has said.
Trump needs just two fifths of the remaining delegates to win the nomination, and has a string of favorable states ahead of him to close out the GOP primary calendar that will likely rocket him past the 1,237 delegates needed.
“When we talk about a rigged system, it’s also important to understand how the Democratic Convention works”, Sanders said at a rally Monday in Evansville, Indiana. Superdelegates are Democratic Party insiders who can support the candidate of their choice, regardless of how their states vote.
Daniel Clark, a 25-year-old from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was voted by Sanders’s delegates to represent them at the national event.
Three-quarters of black voters supported Clinton, but they were far outnumbered by white voters, almost 6 in 10 of whom supported Sanders. Next up is IN on Tuesday.
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“I’ve said I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory; tonight I’m sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed”, Mr Cruz told sombre supporters in Indianapolis.
