Because the state’s 29 pledged delegates will be split proportionally between the two, Sanders needs a huge margin of victory in order to cut into Clinton’s almost 300 pledged-delegate advantage.
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Sanders stopped by his campaign storefront on College Avenue for an impromptu visit shortly after 1 p.m. and spoke for about 5 minutes to a few hundred supporters.
If you’ve heard about Bernie Sanders glowsticks, don’t even think about making them.
DHM Research surveyed 901 likely Democratic Party voters between May 6-9 for Oregon Public Broadcasting and FOX12 Oregon (KPTV/Portland). He managed to get 50 percent of the tallied votes or 47,111.
In 2012, when Obama ran for reelection unopposed in the primary, Keith Judd, an inmate sitting in a federal prison in Texas won a stunning 41 percent of the Democratic primary vote in the state. He has repeatedly pledged to back Clinton if she is nominated.
Sanders, who won West Virginia’s primary on Tuesday, has an uphill climb against Clinton but has vowed to remain in the race through California’s June 7 primary.
Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump, whose last remaining competitors exited the race after Trump’s victory in IN last week, also won in West Virginia on Tuesday, easily.
Mr Trump, the sole Republican candidate in the contest, was expected to sweep the 34 delegates at stake in West Virginia, as he closes in on the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch his party’s nomination.
Among those voting in the West Virginia Democratic primary, about a third said they would support Trump over either Clinton or Sanders in November.
While outlining her plans to increase renewable energy sources, Mrs Clinton said she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”.
Failed presidential candidate and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said even after the tumultuous primary season, most Republicans will eventually come around to supporting Trump.
After Trump abruptly wrapped up the GOP nomination last week, many major GOP fundraisers are playing the wait-and-see game as they mull over whether to help the NY billionaire.
With the Republican nomination all but secure, Trump has narrowed his list of potential running mates to “five or six people”, all with extensive political resumes. He also won 62 percent of voters who said they want less liberal policies than Obama’s. Fourty-four percent of Sanders voters said they would support Trump in the fall, while just 23 percent would vote for Clinton.
The primary results in West Virginia, a small state of 1.8 million, contribute only a small number of delegates to the candidates.
The research also looked at a “high turnout” model, where younger voters voted at similar rates to older voters and new and infrequent voters went to the polls at historic levels, and while Sanders closed the gap, Clinton still is polling ahead 45 percent to 38 percent.
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Now that Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, preliminary exit polls show greater unity on the Republican side than previously seen in past contests.
