Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) promised supporters he would keep on fighting after securing a sweeping primary win in his home state, reminding voters that Super Tuesday is not “winner-take-all.”
“At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain,” Sanders told a raucous crowd in Essex Junction, Vermont. “And let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those states.”
The Vermont senator sounded a call for unity, saying Americans of all backgrounds must come together in this election to prove “that our government belongs to all of us.”
Sanders also called out the Republican frontrunner by name, insisting that the country can’t allow the “Donald Trumps of the world to divide us.”
As of 8:00 p.m. ET, the GOP primary race in Vermont was a dead heat between Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R).
The early timing of Sanders’ speech, which came well before polls closed in several other primary states, suggested he did not expect a big finish in those other Super Tuesday contests. His opponent Hillary Clinton already secured victories in Virginia and Georgia, and was projected to beat Sanders in several other Southern states on Tuesday night.
The people who know Bernie best love him.
None of the Republicans are anywhere near as popular in their home states as Bernie is in Vermont.
Please! Bernie knows every voter in the state. If he doesn’t win Mass. he should get out of the race. This is serious. Just because he is having fun that is not reason to keep this up. Go back to DC and do your job or retire to the Northeast Kingdom. This old Democrat wants a winner.
I am with you on that sentiment. Well said hornblower. I have no desire to live through the 1980s again when Democrats were wandering in the wilderness.
“Sanders – who enjoys the most positive favorable rating of any presidential candidate in the field, according to the poll – tops all three Republicans by wide margins: 57% to 40% against Cruz, 55% to 43% against Trump, and 53% to 45% against Rubio. Sanders fares better than Clinton in each match-up among men, younger voters and independents.”