A remark Clinton made at an OH town hall in March that the country would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” at an OH town hall in a comment may have hurt her with voters in coal-mining states such as West Virginia.
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“We have now won primaries and caucuses in 19 states and let me be as clear as I can be – we are in this campaign to win the Democratic nomination”.
“Mr. Trump will not become president because the American people understand that our our strength is in our diversity”, Sanders added. “We are in this campaign to win the Democratic nomination and we’re going to stay in the race until the last vote is cast”.
Fox projected earlier that Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump would win the state’s GOP primary.
With polls opening at 8 a.m. and closing at 8 p.m., voting is underway in Tuesday’s Nebraska primary. Going into West Virginia, Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, had 2,228 delegates, including 523 so-called super delegates, elite party members who are free to support any candidate. About 6 in 10 voters in the Democratic primary say they’re very anxious about the economy and 3 in 10 say they’re somewhat anxious.
With so many essentially giving up on the progressive senator, it’s hard to tell if he might change his mind about dropping out of the race before the next round of primaries.
Three in 10 Democratic primary voters said they or a family member were employed in the coal industry, and Sanders won those voters by more than 20 percentage points.
Attendees at the Sanders rally roared their approval when Sanders declared that fearmonger and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump must be defeated in the November 2016 general election.
On the Republican side of the race, Donald Trump, who drove his remaining competitors from the race last week, was declared the victor in West Virginia and Nebraska, the Associated Press reported.
Hunter says it’s a good sign that there were that many people in line. Sanders won IN last week and could win several other states slated to vote this month. After Democrats’ staggering losses nationwide in the Obama era, the party’s bench is so thin that Clinton has few good choices beyond Sen.
Bernie Sanders is hoping for a victory to keep alive his bid against primary front-runner Hillary Clinton.
It’s early yet. The national polls that show Trump closing the gap with Clinton may shift back – especially if she winds up with an enormous money advantage. Ted Cruz, returned to the Senate on Tuesday and picked up right where he left off – promising to fight the GOP establishment on behalf of the conservative movement. The Democratic Party subsequently unified around Barack Obama, who went on to win a sweeping victory in the November 2008 general election.
Sanders’ victory in West Virginia is due in part to large turnout among men, white voters and independent voters, preliminary exit poll results show.
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Regardless of what happens next week, Clinton will remain on track to be the Democrats’ standard-bearer in the general election.
