The Associated Press and ABC News projected Sen. Bernie Sanders the winner of Minnesota’s Democratic presidential caucus on Tuesday night.
Sanders garnered 59 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 41 percent with 43 percent of districts reporting.
Minnesota was Sanders’ fourth win of the night, after Vermont, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
Congratulations to Senator Sanders and to his supporters. It’s good for the party that there is still competition. (At least for a while). Takes away the talking point that Clinton is having a “coronation.”
Well, obviously Hillary won more states and more delegates tonight. But Bernie picked up 4 of the 5 states he was targeting, and it’s going to be close in Massachusetts. It will be interesting to see what the (pledged) delegate counts are after tonight. I think the predictions were that Hillary would probably end up ahead by 150-200 (pledged) delegates. I’m guessing it’s going to be closer to 200, maybe even a bit more.
On the one hand, that would be a very big lead. On the other hand, it’s far from a knock-out blow. Bernie has bought himself some more time to improve his standing in some of the big states later in the calendar…but the farther he falls behind in the delegate count, the less likely even solid wins in some of those later states can put him in the lead. But this is definitely a strong enough showing to keep his supporters fired up and for him to press on and continue to fight for votes and delegates.
Yup. That’s what she gets for overlooking Bernie and pivoting with one foot already in the general. I couldn’t be more relieved to see those blowouts in the late states in his favor.
I don’t think she’s been overlooking him. And with Trump surging in the polls and primaries, it would be suicide not to pivot and put one foot into the general. Something Sanders should be doing as well.
What is with the discussion titles tonight? It’s OK to take 20 seconds to actually change the title before pressing “publish.”