Democrat Hillary Clinton also made a Minnesota appearance on Tuesday, visiting a coffee shop and a market in Minneapolis.
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Both front-runners were emboldened by commanding victories Tuesday across large swaths of the country.
Minnesota DFL Chairman Ken Martin announced that Bernie Sanders has won the Minnesota caucus for the DFL. Betty Firth, who helped organize the Ely caucus, described turnout as “amazing”, with three to four times the number of attendees as showed up in 2008, when the race between Clinton and Barack Obama sparked significant interest.
The republican lawmaker says the well-attended caucuses last night in some cases resulted in people standing outside for an hour or more, forced some to walk 3 or 4 blocks to vote and even led to some being turned away, in effect punishing Minnesotans for their high civic level of participation. With most votes counted, Rubio had gained 36.5 percent of the vote, Cruz 29 percent and Trump 21.3 percent, with others getting a relatively few votes.
Sanders had 62 percent of the vote Wednesday morning, compared to 38 percent for Clinton.
Rubio’s campaign has been surging in recent days as much of the Republish establishment rushed to his corner.
Some Minneapolis and Red Wing precincts ran out of ballots, and more needed to be printed.
Even if Sanders doesn’t win the next presidential contest, one Clinton supporter wants Sanders to continue campaigning.
“Marco Rubio appears to be a candidate who has taken up the mantle of representation of the middle class, and I think we desperately need that”, the 65-year-old neurologist said. DFL caucus-goers in Ely backed Sanders by a whopping 152-33 margin.
Clinton said on February 12: “Here is my promise to you, I will work harder than anyone to make changes that actually will improve lives….to break all the barriers that hold people back”. “There was a full coming in too”, said Hill.
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Tom Roach said he’s drawn to Sanders by his consistent message over the years.
