Bernie Sanders’ effort to persuade Democratic superdelegates to switch to his side from Hillary Clinton’s so far is more a rhetorical flourish than an active campaign.
As Clinton has widened her lead over Sanders in pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses over the past month, the Vermont senator has turned to making a case to the more than 700 party officials and office holders who are unbound delegates to the national convention.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders came from behind Tuesday night to defeat Hillary Clinton in Indiana’s Democratic primary.
With 73 percent reporting, Sanders was declared the winner, besting Clinton 53 to 47 percent.
Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday with a landslide win in Indiana that drove his principal opponent, Senator Ted Cruz, from the race and cleared the way for the polarizing, populist outsider to take control of the party.
After months of sneering dismissals and expensive but impotent attacks from Republicans fearful of his candidacy, Mr. Trump is now positioned to clinch the required number of delegates for the nomination by the last day of voting on June 7.
Read More >>Indiana won’t have a dramatic effect on Bernie Sanders’ fortunes — win or lose, he’s said he’s fighting on through the convention. But a win Tuesday would be a much-needed respite from a week of headlines suggesting his campaign is sputtering and his path to the nomination is all but gone.
First came news of hundreds of staff layoffs. Then came word that his April fundraising had declined considerably compared to March — his haul dropped from $44 million to $26 million. The Northeastern primaries were unkind to him as well: Hillary Clinton won four of five states last week.
Read More >>Donald Trump reached a new high among Republicans in a national NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday.
The real estate mogul has 56 percent support, more than doubling his advantage over Ted Cruz, who sits at 22 percent. John Kasich rounds out the survey with 14 percent support. An additional 7 percent remain undecided.
Read More >>Sen. Bernie Sanders insists that the Democratic convention will be a “contested contest,” though acknowledging it would be tough for him to get there.
Indeed, the Vermont senator would need to win 65 percent of the remaining pledged delegates in order to take the lead over Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates, according to an ABC News analysis of the delegate count.
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