Donald Trump will win the Georgia primary, CNN has projected. The caucus format – with voter speeches preceding secret ballots and internal party business – also set up well for Sanders by attracting the most fervent supporters. And he’s shown no sign of changing his economic-focused message to do so – a strategy that hurt his chances in a swath of primaries held across the country on Tuesday.
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The problem is, MSNBC and Google are including the super delegates (who haven’t even voted yet) in their delegate count, making Clinton look like a shoo-in.
Sanders’ road is much tougher. She is 1,052 delegates deep into the race for 2,382. Interest is strongest among political independents, and just 49 percent of them say they would definitely or probably consider voting Bloomberg for president.
Sanders won his home state of Vermont and Oklahoma, two of five states he was targeting for victory on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – Okay, so what Super Tuesday really is a day American states vote in primaries and caucuses.
Fresh off a commanding Super Tuesday performance, Hillary Clinton now faces her newest problem: How to win over Bernie Sanders while he refuses to give up.
Martin and most other DFL leaders had backed Clinton, but the chairman said Minnesota is a progressive state and Sanders is a progressive politician. He picks up at least 323 delegates. “In order to catch up, Sen”. But another such possible Sanders state, Oklahoma, is worth only 38 and Sanders’ home state of Vermont is worth 16.
Clinton came to Omaha in December, and the former first lady’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton made campaign appearances on her behalf in the days ahead of the caucus. Sanders is counting on his populist image to overcome Clinton and her vastly superior organization. “Once we get all this finished, I’m going after one person – Hillary Clinton”. “We should never let ideology get in the way of helping Americans find a good job they need and deserve”.
But there is a historical precedent for Clinton’s argument: In 2008, then Illinois Sen. She also asked for Super Tuesday support and tossed out many top Minnesota Democratic names.
But some emails, phone messages, and petitions sent by the Sanders boosters have backfired, upsetting superdelegates with their aggressive tone and leading many to dig in their heels for Clinton, according to interviews conducted by Reuters.
But Clinton could build up a wide-enough delegate margin over Sanders to make it statistically impossible for him to catch up, giving her the freedom to turn more of her attention to a general-election fight.
Mr. Sanders, meanwhile, is counting on strong showings in Vermont, Massachusetts, Colorado, Minnesota and Oklahoma to sustain his candidacy. Clinton is expected to fare well in Saturday’s Louisiana primary, helped by the state’s black voters. Sanders is at a disadvantage in that two-thirds of those delegates are in the southern states in which Clinton has at least a 20-point lead.
Sanders’ only other win came in New Hampshire.
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But they also acknowledge that the path forward won’t be easy. The plan would rescind tax relief offers that were created to encourage investment in the United States, a concept that an aide said emerged out of discussions with her aides in recent years.
