Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, providing his campaign with one more jolt of momentum before the race against Hillary Clinton heads east.
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That means Clinton has 1,287 delegates based on primaries and caucuses to Sanders’ 1,037. Clinton represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 2001 to 2009 and Sanders grew up in Brooklyn.
“We congratulate Senator Sanders on a spirited campaign in Wyoming”.
Still, Clinton has been starting to draw a contrast with her potential Republican opponents, namely Trump and Texas Sen. The Sanders grass-roots, online money machine guarantees that he will have the resources – and the passion behind his candidacy – to contest every primary and caucus between now and June 7.
Sanders, who has now won seven of the last eight state contests, tried to stick more to the issues after a fractious week in which he questioned Clinton’s qualifications to be president. Sanders outperforms Clinton over Trump in the swing states of Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, as well.
“This creates problems in terms of bringing the party together and having a united front in November”, West said.
“Love always trumps hate”, Sanders said. “And I’m glad that we now can point to reliable, independent analysis to say, ‘No, it’s just not true'”.
One group of enthusiastic Sanders partisans broke into a Bernie Sanders song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle Dandy”.
Sanders has dominated in states where Democrats make their presidential preference choice in a caucus – but there are only a few caucuses left on the election calendar. A candidate needs 2,383 delegates to win.
Clinton has a slimmer lead over Trump on which candidate is trusted to protect the country, with 37 percent backing the Democrat and 31 percent backing the Republican. “Right now Hillary Clinton is the focus of all evil in the world for Republicans and Democrats”, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
In an appearance before Jewish Republicans in Las Vegas later that day, Cruz warned of a “bloodbath” for the GOP if Trump were the nominee and said control of Congress and the balance of the Supreme Court could be at risk. But after stumbles by the Vermont senator over the past half-dozen days, New York’s April 19 primary and the series of contests that follow April 26 provide Clinton the opportunity to change the conversation.
“I look forward to debating whoever emerges as the Republican nominee, because both of them have really put anti-immigration statements at the core of their campaigns”, Clinton said Saturday. “But I think it is important to tell people about what you’re going to do for them, and how you can get it done – how you can produce results that will make a positive difference in people’s lives”.
She says she’ll preserve the program by asking the wealthy to pay more.
More than 500 Democratic delegates are at stake in the two states, and Clinton already has the backing of 51 party leaders and elected officials there who will attend the convention as super-delegates.
Sander says he’d lift the cap on taxable income to ensure the wealthy are contributing more and he promises to expand benefits. Meanwhile, Donald Trump visited the September 11th Museum in Lower Manhattan where he donated $100,000 in an unannounced trip.
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He stumbled in a New York Daily News interview Monday as he tried to explain some of his ideas, notably his plans to toughen regulation of Wall Street.
