Sanders is surprise victor in Michigan; Trump keeps winning
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledges his supporters on arrival at a campaign rally, Tuesday.
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, greeted supporters during a campaign rally at Central Baptist Church in Kannapolis, N.C., on Tuesday.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club today in Jupiter, Fla.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally at Cuyahoga Community College Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Cleveland.
LANSING, Mich. >> Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan’s primary Tuesday night, chipping away at Hillary Clinton’s dominance in the Democratic presidential race. Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in Hawaii, Michigan and Mississippi, overcoming fierce efforts to blunt his momentum.
Even with Sanders’ win, Clinton and Trump moved closer to a general election face-off. Clinton breezed to an easy victory in Mississippi, propelled by overwhelming support from black voters, and she now has more than half the delegates she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination. Trump, too, padded his lead over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who carried the Idaho primary.
The front-runners turned their sights on November as they reveled in their wins.
“We are better than what we are being offered by the Republicans,” Clinton declared.
In a nod toward the kind of traditional politics he’s shunned, Trump emphasized the importance of helping Republican senators and House members get elected in the fall. Having entered Tuesday’s contests facing a barrage of criticism from rival candidates and outside groups, he also delighted in overcoming the attacks.
“Every single person who has attacked me has gone down,” Trump said at one of his Florida resorts. He was flanked by tables packed with his retail products, including steaks, bottled water and wine, and defended his business record more thoroughly than he outlined his policy proposals for the country.
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Sanders, meanwhile, said Michigan signaled “that we are a national campaign.”
“We already have won in the Midwest, New England and the Great Plains and as more people get to know more about who we are and what our views are we’re going to do very well,” the Vermont senator said in a statement.
While a handful of recent losses to Cruz have raised questions about Trump’s durability, Tuesday’s contests marked another lost opportunity for rivals desperate to stop his march to the nomination. Next week’s winner-take-all contests in Ohio and Florida loom large as perhaps the last chance to block him short of a contested convention fight.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich was in a fight with Cruz for second place in Michigan and hoping a good showing would give him a boost heading into next week’s crucial contest in his home state.
For Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Tuesday marked the latest in a series of disappointing nights. He emerged from Michigan and Mississippi with no new delegates, a grim outcome for a candidate who has the overwhelming support from Republican senators, governors and other elected officials.
Rubio insisted he would press on to his home state’s primary in Florida next Tuesday.
“It has to happen here, and it has to happen now,” Rubio told supporters during a rally in Sarasota.
If Rubio and Kasich can’t win at home, the GOP primary appears set to become a two-person race between Trump and Cruz. The Texas senator is sticking close in the delegate count, and with seven states in his win column he’s argued he’s the only candidate standing between the brash billionaire and the GOP nomination.
During a campaign stop at a North Carolina church, Cruz took on Trump for asking rally attendees to pledge their allegiance to him. He said the move struck him as “profoundly wrong” and was something “kings and queens demand” of their subjects.
Some mainstream Republicans have cast both Trump and Cruz as unelectable in a November face-off with the Democratic nominee. But they’re quickly running out of options — and candidates —to prevent one of the men from becoming the GOP standard-bearer.
Republicans were also holding a caucus Tuesday in Hawaii.
The economy ranked high on the list of concerns for voters in Michigan and Mississippi. At least 8 in 10 in each party’s primary said they were worried about where the American economy is heading, according to exit polls conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.
Among Democrats, 8 in 10 voters in both states said the country’s economic system benefits the wealthy, not all Americans.
Sanders has sought to tap into that concern, energizing young people and white, blue-collar voters with his calls for breaking up Wall Street banks and making tuition free at public colleges and universities. Michigan, with big college towns and a sizeable population of working-class voters, was a good fit for him, though something of a surprise victory given that Clinton had led in polls heading into Tuesday’s voting.
Still, Sanders has struggled mightily with black voters who are crucial to Democrats in the general election. In Mississippi, black voters comprised about two-thirds of the Democratic electorate and nearly 9 in 10 backed Clinton.
After Tuesday’s results, Clinton has accumulated 1,214 delegates and Sanders 566, including superdelegates. Democrats need 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.
With Tuesday’s wins, Trump leads the Republican field with 428 delegates, followed by Cruz with 315, Rubio with 151 and Kasich with 52. Winning the GOP nomination requires 1,237 delegates.
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Good job Hillary, keep them poor. “The highest federal aid recipients are: Mississippi (45.3%), Louisiana (44%), Tennessee (41%)”
And yet all of those have been solidly Republican for years….
LOL
Maybe the Clinton Foundation can help them out.
Ask the Clinton Foundation for help? Nah, they’d rather keep relying on the blue states’ Federal tax contributions like they have for decades.
Yeah, and the states with the LOWEST percentage of federal aid are solidly democratic – New Jersey, Delaware, and Illinois. The republican states tend to be poorer, less educated, and less healthy too.
When I was at an Investor’s Business Daily seminar in Anaheim, CA in January 2008, I ran into some random people in a gift shop area of the hotel. The question came up as to who would I favor for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. I said I prefer Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama even though I was from Hawaii. Fast forward 8 years and I think Hillary will win the Democratic nod and take on Trump in November. In the debates to come, I think Hillary would be able to stand for America better than Trump. My prediction: the first woman POTUS, and of course the first First Husband, who would give Hillary well enough advice. Don’t go counting your chickens before they hatch though, Hillary.
So what’s your point…?
Gabbard might have the last laugh when she decided to support Sanders some didn’t think it was a good idea.. Would pick Hillary over any of the Republicans but Sanders going make a good run so i think going be tight.
I suspect you might be right. It might be bourbon I’m sipping, but I am convinced that Trump is basically part of a conspiracy by wall street and the media to destroy the Republican Party ensure a Clinton victory. Hold your laughter. You notice all of the Negative Trump news trickling out? Trump University is a fraud, Trump labeled products are made in China, the NY Times has a off the record story about Trump, etc. The media had this stuff months ago, but they held it back. They saw that Trump, a complete wack job, was basically rolling over the mainstream candidates, but they had no interest in stopping him because if they did, Hillary would have had to face a much stronger candidate. Wall Street want Cruz (his wife works on wall street) or Clinton (already bought and paid for). But Cruz is another wack job who might actually cut off American’s supply of cheap illegal immigrant labor. AS a result they turn to Hillary. Once Trump is nominated you just know all of the negative stories will come out of the floodgates. His three marriages and trophy wife will be fair game. The republicans can mount a floor fight to stop Trump but that would fracture the party. Nope I think the powers that be have been controlling this thing from the start. I need more bourbon.
We’ll all need more than bourbon after the election if any of the front runners from either party win. Trump? Every day I worry more. Too many have lost all confidence in media or Washington, and seem ready to stick with him all the way. Offering alternatives like Cruz, Clinton, Rubio, or Sanders only increases their commitment.
Seems like we will have two choices that amount to this, a 20 meter high dive into a swimming pool filled with ping pong balls (Trump) or voting for a compulsively lying, self-aggrandizing, corrupt incompetent with the personality of a political bobble head who will, in the end, appoint four radical Supreme Court justices( that would be Hillary). At this point, the dive looks like the better choice.
Who cares? He barely won. And for the record, Hilary got more delegates in Michigan than Sanders. In the end, Hilary is way in the lead. Even if you take away the superdelegates, she is still wininng by 200 delegates. Stop misleading the public. The delegate count is what counts.
It’s a tradition in the Democratic Party that the caucus and not a super delegates determine the nomination. There won’t be a split Democratic Party.
Let’s see. Michigan was an early turning point for Barack in 2008. And HRC’s downfall was trying to claw back some of his MI (and FL) delegates toward the end of the primary season when she no longer could match his momentum, took her bogus argument to the DNC and was slapped down. This isn’t precisely “history repeating itself”, but the parallels are intriguing.
Way to scrap, Big Bern! Keep on kickin’ A!
Interesting analysis–I think the voters are not voting for Sanders per se, but are voting AGAINST Hillary.
Voters will also vote AGAINST Hillary in the general election. I think it’s now more of an anti establishment vote then it is between parties. The GOP leadership still doesn’t get it.
You hit it sarge. The Trump phenom is all about this. People are sick and tired of bought and paid for politicians. A vote for Trump is not necessarily a vote for Trump but a vote against the “Establishment”. Millennials like him because he is the so called juvenile delinquent mentality taking on the “Adult” system. Win? Who knows?
“We are better than what we are being offered by the Republicans,” says hiliar, the first female felon running for president.
as hiliar predicted: “no one is too big to jail”
One of the BEST things learned from the primary results is: If you’re Non-White, you KNOW what states to avoid considering residence in !!!!
Trump has shown which States have the most ignorant bigots !!! Fortunately, they SEEM to be a minority of the general population …………….
You do know that Trump won Hawaii? By your own conclusion and by the dictionary definition you are an ignorant bigot…….
Bozo the clown or Ronald McDonald?
The picture in the header is of Sanders and looks like Curly Joe.