To win it, she needs just 17 percent of the delegates at stake in the remaining contests.
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According to the NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, Sanders is favored over Trump by 13 points.
“We now have won primaries and caucuses in 19 states”, Sanders said at a rally in Salem, Oregon Tuesday evening.
“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”.
Clinton, a former secretary of state and US senator from NY, has a commanding lead in the pledged delegates needed to clinch her party’s nomination for the November 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama. Even if she lost all the ret of the states by a landslide, she could still emerge as the nominee – assuming her superdelegates, the key for her in this race, continue to back her.
Democrat hopeful Bernie Sanders won the primary in West Virginia – a state where rival and party front-runner Hillary Clinton had won in 2008.
A win there, a week after his victory in IN, would provide Sanders with fresh motivation to keep running against Clinton. Clinton, seeking to become the first woman president, leads by a margin of 48 percent to 35 percent among women, while Trump leads by a margin of 49 percent to 36 percent among men.
In other words, Clinton might be the Democratic frontrunner at the moment, but if you want to make sure Trump loses she may not be the best bet.
Alex Hider is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Three in 10 West Virginia Democratic primary voters in preliminary exit poll results say they live in a household with a coal worker. They are divided on who best would handle terrorism, with 47 percent saying Trump and 46 percent Clinton.
Deep concerns about the economy underscored West Virginia’s Democratic primary.
“By wide margins, voters in all three states say Clinton is more intelligent than Trump and by smaller margins, voters in all three states say she has higher moral standards”.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump’s victory in West Virginia means he will get at least three delegates.
Even though the GOP race is essentially over, thumping vote totals on Tuesday would also reinforce the billionaire’s appeals for the party to unite around him, despite significant antipathy towards him from many conservatives and establishment leaders.
“Republicans’ weakness among minority voters is well known, ” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, said in an analysis accompanying the results.
Bernie Sanders can claim another state win in West Virginia, but it isn’t really improving the tough delegate math against him.
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In a Tuesday interview with The Associated Press, Trump says he doesn’t like the idea of taking taxpayer money to run a campaign and says he thinks it’s inappropriate. His fundraising has fallen off and so, too, has his advertising, with only about $525,000 in ads planned for California and $63,000 each in West Virginia and OR, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG.
