Sanders won easily in Wisconsin but Clinton still holds a commanding lead in the important delegate count.
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Anticipating a loss in Wisconsin weeks ago, Clinton’s campaign mostly kept the her away from the state while Sanders campaigned vigorously there.
“For Sanders to say that the Sandy Hook families should be barred from court, even if the weapon was negligently made, is wrong”. Screams erupted and the crowd broke into chants of “Bernie!”
The air of collegiality between two of the Senate’s most liberal members – Connecticut’s Chris Murphy and Vermont’s Bernie Sanders – is turning frosty over a Newtown wrongful death lawsuit. “We will fight back”.
“He can assert it, but it seems extremely unlikely” that Sanders can catch Clinton, said Steve Elmendorf, deputy campaign manager for John Kerry’s 2004 Demcoratic presidential campaign. To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: “Forward!”
Hillary Clinton stepped up her criticism of Bernie Sanders following his victory in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, questioning the Vermont senator’s fidelity to the Democratic Party and knocking him for his inability to answer questions in an interview with the New York Daily News.
In overlapping press conferences, the two Democratic primary rivals addressed the ping-ponging accusations, with Sanders vowing to fight back against Clinton’s accusations.
But while Trump has declared that “in upstate New York, I’m like the most popular person that’s ever lived”, it would be a tall task to flip his native New York red in November due to the sheer number of votes in New York City. Jeff Smith, a professor at The New School, suggested that Central Park offers a kind of divide: Sanders may do well on the west side, Clinton may do better on the east.
Wisconsin was viewed as hard terrain for Clinton. Sanders has 980 pledged delegates and 31 superdelegates.
“Winning primaries is great – it generates momentum and huge campaign contributions”, McMahon said.
She highlighted that she, unlike Sanders, has been a Democrat her “whole adult life”. She did, however, virtually promise she’ll be the party’s nominee.
“He’s won some, I’ve won some”.
But $15 “has become the standard” for labor groups in part because of the advocacy of fast-food workers in particular, said Mary Kay Henry, global president of the Service Employees worldwide Union.
Now, Clinton is projected to win 18 delegates to Sanders’ 17, if Sanders prevails by the same margin at the state convention.
The very real possibility of a win in Wisconsin, and the relatively close race in NY, allow the Sanders campaign to maintain its strong fundraising push. Twenty-three of those delegates are required to cast their votes based on the results of the February caucus, when 84,000 Democrats turned out and 53 percent opted for Clinton. We’ll see what happens today in Wisconsin.
Clinton’s position also represents the rapid evolution in Democrats’ thinking on this issue.
Sanders was beating Clinton among men, voters ages 18 to 44, and college educated voters.
Tuesday morning, as Sanders mingled with voters over breakfast at Blue’s Egg in Milwaukee, Dale Dulberger, 66, of Wauwatosa, Wis., came to greet the senator after casting his vote for him.
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“I think he hadn’t done his homework and he’d been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions”, Clinton said. “His proposals are idealistic, but that’s what a president is supposed to do”. His campaign only opened a NY office on March 26. In order to do so, Sanders has to win the four remaining delegate-rich primaries - New York, Pennsylvania, California, and New Jersey - with roughly 60 percent of the vote.
