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Bernie Sanders angling to top last month’s eye-popping fundraising performance

In a testament to his staying power in the Democratic presidential race, the campaign of Bernie Sanders said Thursday that he is on the verge of raising more money in March than the pace-setting $43.5 million he brought in during February.

Aides to the senator from Vermont said he has raised more than $39 million so far during March — the vast majority of it online — as the campaign touted a final-day push to top last month’s figure.

Audrey Khairghadam’s zeal for the Republican presidential front-runner faded away sometime between the moment Donald Trump strolled on stage to the ‘90s techno anthem “Are You Ready for This?” and, an hour later, when he left.

The 35-year-old service industry business owner was so excited to see Trump’s first rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday that she jogged five miles from her house to get to the event eight hours early. But after watching from her second-row seat, she left disappointed.

Five things keeping Team Clinton on edge

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign insists it is just a month away from locking up the Democratic nomination despite weekend wins in three states by rival Bernie Sanders.

Sanders defeated Clinton in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington, but Team Clinton retains a delegate lead it sees as insurmountable.

After a trio of landslide wins in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii on Saturday — the best single day of his campaign — Bernie Sanders narrowed his delegate deficit with Hillary Clinton. But he still has a lot of work to do. Sanders trails Clinton by 228 pledged delegates and will need 988 more — a bit under 57 percent of those available — to finish with the majority.

As the Bernie Sanders campaign accepts the reality that securing enough votes at this point to win the Democratic nomination outright is impossible, it has moved on to a new phase in its long-shot bid for the White House: hijack Hillary Clinton’s so-called superdelegates.

Sanders advisors are targeting these party leaders and elected officials who have outsized influence in deciding who gets to be the Democratic nominee, and whom Hillary Clinton moved swiftly and aggressively to lock down early in the race.

After suffering significant losses to Bernie Sanders last weekend in the Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii Democratic caucuses, Hillary Clinton finds herself in a closer race than she perhaps expected after rolling to a series of wins earlier this month.

While Clinton maintains a very large lead in the delegate contest, national support in our most recent NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll shows a race that has dipped to only a 6-point difference between the candidates among registered Democrats and Democratic-leaners.

There isn’t much doubt that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had a good weekend, winning all three Democratic caucuses by wide margins. The question seems to be, is there still a path for him to win enough delegates to overcome the substantial lead the frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently holds? According to Bloomberg Politics, things get much tougher from Sanders from this point forward:

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