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Small Rhode Island Suddenly Has Big Role in Presidential Primaries
Most years, the presidential primary here is a drive-by affair, with candidates racing past the state like motorists taking the shortest route from Boston to New York. But this unpredictable election season has turned even Rhode Island’s late primary and paltry pile of delegates into a valued prize, putting this small state into the primary spotlight before its vote Tuesday.
Read More >>Donald Trump’s investment in his White House bid tops $36 million
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is outraising Hillary Clinton in their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, but she started this month with more money reserved in her bank accounts than Sanders did for April’s expensive primary fights.
Among Republicans, Sen. Ted Cruz’s fundraising hit a new high in March, but the Texan is racing through big sums in his quest to challenge Donald Trump’s status as the GOP front-runner.
Read More >>Democrats Have Gotten More Liberal Since 2008, But Not Enough To Nominate Sanders
Bernie Sanders’s campaign has had far more success than most people (including this guy) thought it would. He has gone from a virtually unknown Vermont senator to winning a little more than 40 percent of the national Democratic primary vote. He will probably fall short of the nomination in the end, but why has Sanders outperformed expectations so much? Here’s part of an explanation: The Democratic electorate turning out in 2016 has been a lot more liberal than it was in the last competitive Democratic primary, in 2008.
Read More >>How much the candidates raised and spent in March
The remaining presidential candidates provided a glimpse into their finances on Wednesday as the Federal Election Commission posted filings on their fundraising, spending and cash positions during the month of March.
The document trove included money snapshots of both the candidates’ campaigns and their affiliated super PACs during a crucial period of time when millions of voters weighed in through primaries and caucuses.
Read More >>After New York comes the question: What does Bernie want?
Hillary Clinton’s victory in the New York primary Tuesday has brought Sen. Bernie Sanders one step closer to a series of difficult decisions that can be summed up in one simple question: What does Bernie want?
How he answers that question will have a direct bearing on how united Democrats will be heading into the fall campaign — and whether Sanders will be able to leverage his success this year into lasting power and influence.
Read More >>Hillary Clinton’s Late-Primary Limbo
The former secretary of State declared Tuesday night after a decisive primary win in New York that “victory is in sight,” with a nearly insurmountable delegate lead over Bernie Sanders and just more than a handful of primary dates left on the calendar.
But the Sanders campaign signaled he intends to stick it out until the final primaries in June, or through the July convention, meaning Clinton will have to wait to fully pivot to the general election.
Read More >>How Bernie lost New York
Bernie Sanders had just arrived at the rally, and missed the incendiary remark entirely. Many on the senator’s campaign had never even heard of Dr. Paul Song, the speaker who had just commandeered news coverage of a massive Washington Square rally in New York by referring to “corporate Democratic whores.”
Nevertheless, by the next morning, the campaign was forced into full scramble mode. Cable coverage of the 27,000-person rally was eclipsed by reporting on the furor surrounding the comment, requiring a Sanders response. After first resisting an apology, the campaign settled on disavowing the remark with a tweet.
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