Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was projected to win the Democratic primary in Oregon Tuesday night, according to projections from MSNBC and CNN.
Sanders’ wife, Jane, walked on stage at a rally in Carson, California to inform her husband that CNN had projected him the winner in the Beaver State.
Oregon’s voter system is unique: in 2015 the state implemented automatic voter registration, by which newly licensed drivers are automatically registered to vote. The system has been credited with enrolling more than 67,000 voters.
But because Oregon has closed primaries, those voters needed to have registered as Democrats to participate in the Tuesday’s primary, giving Clinton a built-in advantage.
Both Sanders and Clinton campaigned in some capacity in Oregon, with former President Bill Clinton stumping for his wife and Sanders making several campaign stops in the state as early as January with massive rally attendance.
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So Bernie needs to win all of CA, NJ, New Mexico, and most of DC to win, right? Or get a bunch of the super delegates to change their declared votes (so that he has to win less in those states, or others…).
I got halfway through his speech and had to turn the channel. Watching all the worldly 23-year-olds in the crowd booing the Democratic party was repugnant. (I was waiting for them to start chanting the B word when he mentioned Hillary like his Bros did in Nevada over the weekend to Barbara Boxer).
He has to knock of the sour, bitter old man routine and fast.
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance.”
Lloyd Christmas and the Bernie Bros.
One step closer to having to admit defeat.
Bernie is definitely winning some and he is definitely the strong second place finisher.
His letter today about the violence in Nevada was absolutely despicable.
To brush off the actions of his worst supporters when he’s called out the same problem with Trump’s campaign in the past, to encourage an us-vs-them mentality, to act aggrieved when he can’t overturn the will of the voters or seize more delegates than he actually won… Good Christ, all that talk about Clinton’s arrogance and entitlement and corruption looks like little more than projection.