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Sanders campaign claims $40M haul in February

Bernie Sanders campaign says it raised $40 million in February—and at least $4 million on Monday alone.

The Vermont Senator’s fundraising continues to be driven by his online operation. Sanders’ team kicked off the day by informing backers that the team had raised $36 million and set a goal of $40 million for day’s end. By 7:45 pm, the site set up by the campaign to track donations showed that goal being met—and a new goal of $45 million in place.

Poll: Clinton, Sanders would beat Trump

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would both defeat GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump in a general election, according to a new poll.

Clinton tops Trump in a hypothetical matchup, 52 to 44 percent, in the CNN/ORC survey released early Tuesday.

With nearly twenty percent of total delegates up for grabs across 11 states on Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is hoping this will be the moment she pulls so far ahead of Bernie Sanders that it becomes almost mathematically impossible for him catch up.

After a contentious primary season with huge surprises in both the Democratic and Republican races, Super Tuesday could bring some clarity to the 2016 election. Voters will convene for primaries or caucuses in more than a dozen states on Tuesday, and a significant chunk of delegates are at stake in both the GOP and Democratic races.

It’s the single biggest day of voting until November in terms of states in play (11 on each side, plus a territory for the Democrats) and delegates at stake (595 for the Republicans, and 1,015 Democratic delegates in the states voting Tuesday).

No candidate can wrap up the nomination on Super Tuesday. But the frontrunners are expected to put some serious distance between themselves and their closest competitors. And the regional focus of the day -– seven Southern states vote on Tuesday -– raises the stakes for several candidates.

Cruz, Sanders Face Tough Tests Tomorrow

Eleven states will hold nominating contests tomorrow, and while the stakes are large for every candidate, two in particular face challenges that could determine whether they have a viable path to their party’s nomination: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

For Sanders, a good showing and a couple of victories seem like necessities following a nearly 50-point drubbing in Saturday’s South Carolina primary. Coming on the heels of his loss in the Nevada caucuses a week before, the ... Read More >>

After the first four voting contests of 2016, a clear trend is showing up in the numbers: compared with 2008, Democratic turnout is down, while Republicans are hitting record turnout highs.

In South Carolina’s Democratic primary, for example, where Hillary Clinton scored a big victory Saturday night, just over 367,000 people turned out to vote-a 30-percent decrease from 2008, the last contested Democratic primary, when 532,000 Democrats voted.