The AP delegate count gave Clinton 11 of Wyoming’s 18 delegates, though those numbers could change after the state’s May 28 state convention.
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Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at New York City’s annual Inner Circle Show Saturday night, teasing Mayor Bill de Blasio for being slow to endorse her for president. The state primary offers 291 delegates, and Clinton leads Sanders in the latest poll among likely Democratic voters in the state by 54-42 percent.
Clinton is still the clear frontrunner for the Democratic party presidential ticket for November’s general election, but Sanders has the momentum and has enjoyed a string of successes at the polls in recent weeks.
“We’ve got a corrupt system, its not right”, Trump said at a rally in Rochester, New York on Sunday.
The Associated Press reports that, when superdelegates are included, Clinton holds a significant lead over Sanders: 1,756 to 1,068.
In results confirmed today, Sunday, Sanders won 56 percent of the caucus vote in the state of Wyoming while Clinton gathered 44 percent.
Sanders dismissed suggestions levied by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill that his initial comments from a Philadelphia event saying that Clinton is not “qualified” to hold the office of the presidency, were in some way sexist. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is third with 15 percent.
In a debate in January, Cruz accused Trump of having “New York values”, which he sees as “socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro-gay marriage [with a] focus around money and the media”.
The next prize is April 19 in NY, where Clinton once served as senator, and where Sanders was born.
“We congratulate Senator Sanders on a spirited campaign in Wyoming”.
Republican and Democratic White House hopefuls will continue their swings through NY on Monday to gather voter support with the primary just over one week away.
The labyrinthine route through multiple tiers of party stalwarts instead favored Cruz, who claimed a clean sweep of the 21 delegates chosen in congressional district conventions over the past week, before picking up all of the 13 delegates allocated at Saturday’s state convention.
During his speech on Sunday, the real-estate magnate also drew parallels between Sanders’ deficit of presidential delegates and Trump’s own problems securing the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
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But while Cruz and Sanders have been performing well, Public Policy Polling director Tom Jensen says he expects the momentum to shift back to the frontrunners for at least the rest of this month. Marco Rubio, who suspended his campaign, has 167 delegates.
