A little more chance of talking about 'momentum' but not much of a gain in delegates.
"SANDERS’ BIG WISCONSIN WIN BRINGS IN FEW DELEGATES:NBC News’s First Read crew does the math and concludes that Sanders gained no ground:
"He outspent Clinton over the Wisconsin airwaves by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, beat her by 14 percentage points, 57%-43%, but only picked up a net gain of just 10 pledged delegates. And despite that gain, the percentage of overall remaining delegates that Clinton needs to clinch the nomination actually got smaller (from 34% to 33%), because there are fewer delegates left to win….Clinton must win 33% of remaining delegates to hit the 2,383 magic number (was 34%). Sanders must win 67% of remaining delegates to hit the 2,383 magic number (was 66%)."
So there’s still an enormous delegate deficit for Sanders to make up."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/04/06/clinton-just-blasted-sanders-for-not-being-a-democrat-heres-why/
We will be hearing a lot of momentum from Bernie for the next couple of weeks, but at the end of the day all this does is push her closer to her 2383 needed to win the convention.
The morning after a resounding defeat in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton's campaign emphatically rejected the notion that a Bernie Sanders victory in the April 19 New York primary would reset the race or lead to an open convention.
“No, I don’t think that’s true at all," campaign press secretary Brian Fallon said in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday when asked about the prospect of Sanders' momentum preventing a clear-cut nominee before the Democratic National Convention.
For Sanders, Fallon said, New York is a "must-win," but even with a victory, "that only prolongs the contest, it doesn’t put him on the trajectory to overtake us in our pledged delegate lead."
"If you look at the reality this morning, even after his win last night, for which we congratulate him, he’s still down by over 200 delegates. And even if he repeats this trick in New York in terms of the margin — look at the delegate yield that he took away last night," Fallon continued. "It’s only a 10, right now it’s a 10-person delegate yield, doesn’t significantly erode our delegate lead. He needs to win by 60 percent or so in not just New York but in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/clinton-sanders-must-win-new-york-221627#ixzz453xeUqaa
"SANDERS’ BIG WISCONSIN WIN BRINGS IN FEW DELEGATES:NBC News’s First Read crew does the math and concludes that Sanders gained no ground:
"He outspent Clinton over the Wisconsin airwaves by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, beat her by 14 percentage points, 57%-43%, but only picked up a net gain of just 10 pledged delegates. And despite that gain, the percentage of overall remaining delegates that Clinton needs to clinch the nomination actually got smaller (from 34% to 33%), because there are fewer delegates left to win….Clinton must win 33% of remaining delegates to hit the 2,383 magic number (was 34%). Sanders must win 67% of remaining delegates to hit the 2,383 magic number (was 66%)."
So there’s still an enormous delegate deficit for Sanders to make up."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/04/06/clinton-just-blasted-sanders-for-not-being-a-democrat-heres-why/
We will be hearing a lot of momentum from Bernie for the next couple of weeks, but at the end of the day all this does is push her closer to her 2383 needed to win the convention.
The morning after a resounding defeat in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton's campaign emphatically rejected the notion that a Bernie Sanders victory in the April 19 New York primary would reset the race or lead to an open convention.
“No, I don’t think that’s true at all," campaign press secretary Brian Fallon said in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday when asked about the prospect of Sanders' momentum preventing a clear-cut nominee before the Democratic National Convention.
For Sanders, Fallon said, New York is a "must-win," but even with a victory, "that only prolongs the contest, it doesn’t put him on the trajectory to overtake us in our pledged delegate lead."
"If you look at the reality this morning, even after his win last night, for which we congratulate him, he’s still down by over 200 delegates. And even if he repeats this trick in New York in terms of the margin — look at the delegate yield that he took away last night," Fallon continued. "It’s only a 10, right now it’s a 10-person delegate yield, doesn’t significantly erode our delegate lead. He needs to win by 60 percent or so in not just New York but in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/clinton-sanders-must-win-new-york-221627#ixzz453xeUqaa
He needs big victories. As NYer, I don't think he wins NY, especially after that disastrous interview. But even if he did win by two points what would that mean to the delegate count: not much.
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