Making up that deficit wouldn’t be impossible, unless the blustery Trump wins both OH, with its 66 delegates, and Florida, with 99, on Tuesday. Republicans were competing in four states – Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho, and Hawaii – with 150 delegates up for grabs.
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Rubio, meanwhile, suffered another brutal drubbing Tuesday night, failing to pick up any delegates in MI and MS and finishing a distant third in Hawaii and Idaho.
Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said the results show Sanders within striking distance of Clinton in the Buckeye State.
Trump’s strong performance – he has now won 14 states – suggests that his capacity to win is undiminished despite a barrage of attacks by his rivals and the Republican establishment on his personality, his sometimes vulgar campaign style and his fitness to serve as president. MI responded to his assault on trade deals, while not entirely buying Clinton’s late attacks on his voting record on the auto industry bailout. It’s also because Democratic Party elites want their front-runner to win, even as their counterparts in the GOP are mostly allied against Trump.
Clinton even won groups from which Sanders has drawn much of his support elsewhere, including liberals and those who consider income inequality the nation’s biggest problem.
Love for Sanders: “After Michigan, it is clear that Sanders – the self-described “democratic socialist” running an insurgent campaign on Clinton’s left – has not peaked”.
Mrs Clinton carried almost nine in 10 black voters in MS, mirroring her margins in other southern states with large African-American populations. His victories have either been squeakers, such as MI, or have come in smaller states such as Vermont and New Hampshire.
His surprise victory also probably has to do with the fact that younger voters, who tend to favor Sanders over Clinton, turned out in greater than expected numbers.
Sanders’ victory, on the eve of the next Democratic debate that will be simulcast on CNN, will send a jolt of new excitement through his campaign and raise fresh questions about Clinton’s operation.
What does all that mean for the next three months of primary contests?
In the Democratic race it is hard to identify any candidate as the victor based on Tuesday’s primary results. If he achieves that goal, he would then try to persuade the super-delegates to switch to his side. Clinton is performing well with white voters in the state, too. And as Sanders told reporters last night, his campaign believes that some of the states most likely to support him are yet to come on the calendar.
With Tuesday’s wins, Mr. Trump leads the Republican field with 428 delegates, followed by Mr. Cruz with 315, Mr. Rubio with 151 and Mr. Kasich with 52.
“No, I do not support vigilantes and that is a horrific statement and an unfair statement to make”, he said. Both have guaranteed victory over Trump in their home states.
“When she defended her vote”, he said, “she said, ‘well, it’s going to help the big banks in NY; those are my constituents'”.
While Sanders upset Clinton in MI, she increased her delegate lead by sweeping MS and is now halfway to the number needed to clinch the nomination.
Rubio, whose appeal with party leaders hasn’t been reciprocated by voters, insisted he would press on to Florida. More than half the states have yet to vote-and in none of them does the victor take all the delegates.
In the GOP delegate race, Cruz remains about 100 behind Trump.
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the party nomination, which will be decided in July.
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“I don’t think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy’s immigration reform”, she said.
