US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has congratulated her rival Bernie Sanders on his victory in Wyoming, but reminded him of her “nearly insurmountable lead” in delegates.
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On the Republicans side, Texas Sen. “He wins, he wins, he wins, he wins, and I hear he doesn’t have a chance”, Trump said, referring to Sanders’ recent string of Democratic primary and caucus victories.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that a third of Trump’s Republican supporters could consider abandoning the party’s candidate if Trump is denied the nomination at a contested convention.
Host George Stephanopoulos noted Clinton’s lead in delegates and asked the senator if he would take his fight for the nomination to the floor of the convention.
Sanders’ win Saturday affords him bragging rights and bolsters his argument that his campaign is gaining momentum. “But we also must know that the billionaire class is more scared than ever, and they don’t want to see us win again”.
Bernie Sanders did continue his dominance of the Western caucus states, but Hillary Clinton performed much better than anyone expected. “We expect and intend to do very well here in NY state and pick up a lot of delegates here and in some of the other states”.
Trump gets 54 percent of the vote to 22 for John Kasich. “That means Trump could sweep almost all of the state’s delegates”.
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders stopped by New York’s Coney Island for his own rally, and managed to grab some hot dogs while he was there.
Sunday’s Fox News Presidential primary poll in Pennsylvania, a key state if Republicans hope to win the White House in November, brought some good news for Donald Trump. “We would lose seats all the way from the statehouse to the courthouse” – meaning races all down the ballot, Kasich told CBS’s “Face the Nation”. Manafort said the Cruz campaign was using a “scorched earth” approach in which “they don’t care about the party”. “I don’t think we’re at that point, but I think it is important to be careful that at the end of the primary process, when we have a presumptive nominee, that we’re able to easily reunify”. Sanders has 1,068.
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Colorado will send a total of 37 delegates to the Republican National Convention in July, including three unpledged delegates who are the party’s top leaders in the state. So far, he’s winning about 45 percent. Marco Rubio, who suspended his campaign, has 171 delegates. And for a guy scrambling to hit the 1,237-delegate mark to clinch the nomination, that counts.
