01 April 2016

Bernie Sanders Runs the Table & This Is How Bernie Sanders Will Win the Nomination 26&28MAR16

BERNIE SANDERS overwhelmingly defeated hillary clinton in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii and is vigorously challenging her in Wisconsin and New York. The race for the Democratic residential nomination is far from over, and those interested in who best represents the best interest of the 99% should check out Bernie's issues page on his website. From +Mother Jones .....

Bernie Sanders Runs the Table

He crushed Hillary Clinton in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington.

—By Julia Lurie

| Sat Mar. 26, 2016 5:43 PM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, wave to supporters in Madison, Wisconsin. Daniel De Solver/ZUMA

UPDATE 2, March 27, 7:32 a.m. EST: Bernie Sanders notched another big win, crushing Hillary Clinton in Hawaii's caucuses to go three for three on Saturday. With 88 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders had more than 70 percent of the vote.

UPDATE 1, March 26, 6:28 p.m. EST: Sanders won Saturday's Democratic presidential caucuses in Washington. With 31 percent of precincts reporting, theAssociated Press and other news agencies projected that Sanders would be the winner. Sanders had 76 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 24 percent. Washington is the largest prize of the day, with 101 delegates, and delegates will be awarded proportionally. (Many of the Republican contests allot delegates on a winner-take-all basis.)

In a rally on Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin, where Sanders is campaigning ahead of the April 5 primary, the candidate reveled in the back-to-back wins. "I think it's hard for anybody to deny that our campaign has the momentum," he said.

Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential caucuses in Alaska on Saturday. With 38 percent of precincts reporting, the Associated Press and NBC called the race for Sanders at 2:30 p.m. PST. Sanders had 78 percent of the vote and Clinton had 21 percent.

Results will come in later today for the Democratic caucuses in Washington state and Hawaii. Sanders is expected to win big in Saturday's Washington caucuses, where 101 delegates are up for grabs.

Clinton started the day with a substantial lead in pledged delegates: 1,223 for Clinton to 920 for Sanders. That doesn't include the unpledged "superdelegates," among whom Clinton also holds an overwhelming lead.

We'll update this story when more results are available.

JULIA LURIE

Reporter

Julia Lurie is a reporter at Mother Jones. You can reach her at jlurie@motherjones.com. RSS | TWITTER

This Is How Bernie Sanders Will Win the Nomination

According to the Sanders campaign.

—By Pema Levy

| Mon Mar. 28, 2016 3:35 PM EDT

Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA

After sweeping victories in three contests over the weekend, Bernie Sanders' campaign has a message for Hillary Clinton: "Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated."

Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver made that statement on a conference call with reporters on Monday, during which top aides argued that Sanders can still overcome Clinton's delegate lead in the Democratic primary contest. That can happen, they said, both by winning more pledged delegates and by gaining the support of more superdelegates, the 712 party leaders who are free to support the candidate of their choosing at the party's nominating convention.

"We are certainly in this to win it," said Weaver, "and there is a path to do so."

The crux of the campaign's argument for why it can overtake Clinton in the remaining contests is that the Sanders campaign does very well in states where it chooses to compete. The campaign was willing to write off big losses in many southern states as part of its strategy of focusing on winning a majority in as many states as possible, rather than capturing as many delegates as possible in states it wouldn't win.

"Her grasp now on the nomination is almost entirely on the basis of victories where Bernie Sanders did not compete," said senior strategist Tad Devine. "Where we compete with Clinton, where this competition is real, we have a very good chance of beating her in every place that we compete with her."

Devine named eight states where he said the Sanders campaign did not compete with a big presence on the ground or much on-air advertising: Texas, Alabama, Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Arkansas. Clinton, Devine argued, "has emerged as a weak front-runner."

Going forward, the Sanders campaign said it would compete in all upcoming contests, including Wisconsin on April 5, New York on April 19, California on June 7, and even in Washington, DC, the final Democratic contest on June 14. The campaign was optimistic that it would overtake Clinton's pledged delegate lead—she is currently ahead 1,243 to 975, with 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination—and that there are dozens of superdelegates who support Sanders, but have yet to go public.

Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign is also expressing optimism that its candidate will secure the nomination. Shortly after the Sanders' campaign call ended, the Clinton camp announced its own call with reporters to discuss Clinton's "commanding delegate lead and her path ahead to earn the Democratic nomination."

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01 April 2016