Charleston: Bernie Sanders won the
West Virginia primary in the Democratic race for the Presidential nomination.
The Vermont senator still trails
Hillary Clinton in the overall contest for delegates but this win keeps his
slim hopes alive.
Trump was declared the winner in West
Virginia and in Nebraska. Trump faces a huge task in trying to get the
Republican party behind him, as doubts persist about his substance and style.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, the party’s
highest-ranking elected official, has said he is unable to endorse the New York
businessman because he lacks conservative principles.
With victories in Indiana and now West
Virginia, Bernie Sanders has started another winning streak against Hillary
Clinton. Like his five-state run in April, however, it will do little to slow
her steady march to the Democratic nomination.
Exit polls show the West Virginia vote
was particularly quirky. Almost 40 percent of Democratic voters there said they
wanted a president less liberal than Barack Obama — and that group favored
avowed socialist Sanders by more than a two-to-one margin.
At this point the Vermont senator will
likely take help wherever he can get it. He should be competitive in the next
four contests, but could hit a wall in the June mega-prize, California. Its
diverse electorate favors Clinton, and anything but an unprecedented Sanders
win there would seal his fate.
Until then, however, Sanders will
continue to be a constant and unpleasant reminder to Clinton that there are
Democratic voters still unwilling to fully get on board her campaign.
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