Today will mark the second visit by a 2016 candidate, as Bernie Sanders hosts his “Future to Believe in Rally” at UB’s Alumni Arena. Clinton has publicly said before that she would like to start focusing more on Republicans like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
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“Thank you Colorado for another resounding victory!”
Donald Trump organized late in Colorado and left the state convention up to his organizers, and spent about a half-hour on Saturday touring the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan.
Clinton also found a rare point of agreement with Trump on the matter of NY values but criticised Republicans for making anti-immigration statements a “core of their campaign”.
Kasich will appear at a town hall campaign forum at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Saratoga Springs City Center. About one-third of the 50 states have yet to hold their contests. And the Wyoming win helps Sanders in this regard – in itself, and as part of a pattern.
However, it will still take a remarkable turnaround for Sanders to win the nomination over Clinton, a former secretary of state and first lady who goes into the NY primary as heavy favorite to extend her lead in the overall race.
This means he is only 214 elected delegates behind Clinton. Under the rules governing the primaries, candidates who receive more than 50 percent of the vote in a congressional district will get all of the delegates from that district.
So if Sanders is able to make up his more than 200 pledged delegate deficit to pass Clinton, getting superdelegates to come to his side would be a much easier sell than it is now. It takes 2,383 to win.
But it gives the self-described democratic socialist another morale boost, ahead of the crucial NY primary on 19 April. Sanders has won seven of the last eight contests in the Democratic race and could extend that string Saturday in Wyoming. “We’re heading west. And I think you’re going to see us do very, very well in many of those states”.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation”, moderator John Dickerson held Sanders’ feet to the fire on the question of Clinton’s qualifications to be president, which Sanders disputed last week at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
Earlier Saturday, Sanders extended his seven-state winning streak in his bid to defeat front-runner Clinton, grabbing victory in the Wyoming Democratic caucuses. He’s no longer questioning Clinton’s qualifications – just her judgment.
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Wyoming distributes its candidates by percentage of the vote.
