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Sanders Campaign Has Its Regrets

It’s probably too early to begin a full-on post mortem of the campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, but The New York Times has an article this morning suggesting some of that legendary 20/20 hindsight is beginning to make an appearance:

Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders’s Campaign

The morning after he lost the Nevada caucuses in February, Bernie Sanders held a painful conference call with his top advisers….

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Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders’s Campaign

The morning after he lost the Nevada caucuses in February, Bernie Sanders held a painful conference call with his top advisers.

Mr. Sanders expressed deep frustration that he had not built a stronger political operation in the state, and then turned to the worrisome situation at hand.

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Sanders breaks his own record, raises $44 million in March

Bernie Sanders announced Friday that his campaign raised $44 million in March, passing his record-breaking February numbers.

“What this campaign is doing is bringing together millions of people contributing an average of just $27 each to take on a billionaire class which is so used to buying elections,” Sanders said in a statement. “Working people standing together are going to propel this campaign to the Democratic nomination and then the White House.”

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For Clinton, a double-barreled fight against Trump and Sanders in New York

Hillary Clinton’s double-barreled fight for the presidency has arrived in her home state, where she is planning a weeks-long, hyper-local blitz to deal with the challenge of simultaneously competing against two fellow New Yorkers: Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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How Bernie Can Win (But He’s Not Going To Like It)

Coming on the heels of his three-state sweep, Bernie Sanders is claiming momentum and furiously pushing back against the notion that Hillary Clinton’s pledged delegate lead is mathematically insurmountable. “We have a path to victory,” campaign strategist Tad Devine insisted this week, though he acknowledged that involves winning most of the states coming up ”by large margins.”

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Trump, Clinton dominate New York primaries in new poll

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are leading their respective fields in New York’s presidential primaries, according to a new poll out Thursday.

The Quinnipiac University poll shows Clinton with a 12-point lead over Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn-born Vermont senator, 54 percent to 42 percent.

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Clinton moves goalposts again; girds for New York battle

When Hillary Clinton lost the New Hampshire primary to Bernie Sanders in February, Robby Mook, her campaign manager, took the long view and declared the nomination would “very likely be won in March, not February.”

The campaign is now taking an even longer view, with April now being the month they hope to put Sanders away.

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