Sanders wins Wyoming, prepares to take on Clinton in NY

As the USA presidential nomination campaign is heading towards decisive caucuses, Democratic contestant Bernie Sanders has won another state, Wyoming, registering seventh consecutive victory over the forerunner Hillary Clinton.

Rhodes, a 25-year-old graduate student seeking a social work degree, sat on the Sanders side, which appeared to have a few more people than the Clinton section.

With 55% of remaining delegates in New York, Pennsylvania and California, one senior aide said “by the time we get to California, we will only need to meet threshold to win”.

Trump organized late in Colorado and left the state convention up to his organizers, and spent about a half-hour on Saturday touring the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan.

It takes 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president.

Hodge said John Kasich’s plan hasn’t been fully unveiled but his guess is that it would fall between Trump and Cruz.

A Clinton campaign aide said their “secret sauce” in Wyoming was the state’s onerous vote-by-mail rules that required anyone voting by mail to have voted as a Democrat in the 2014 midterms.

Clinton, looking right past the Wyoming results, told a crowd in Brooklyn that she needs a big win in NY on April 19 to help her quickly lock up the Democratic nomination.

“This is what “New York values” are really all about”, it added, a not-too-veiled poke at Cruz, who has taken heat for his earlier criticism of “New York values“.

Speaking later, Sanders – who locked horns with Clinton over trade and the so-called Panama Papers scandal this week – said: “I think it’s fair to say that when we began this campaign we were considered to be a fringe candidate”.

Cruz netted 13 more delegates at Colorado’s state GOP convention. That’s because while she championed the move in NY, she supports raising it to just $12 an hour nationally, leaving it up to states and cities to increase it from there.

Sanders – the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential nominating contest – believes Israel’s response in the 2014 Gaza war was disproportionate.

The complex Colorado process inherently favored Cruz, the Trump campaign charged, and suspicions among supporters mounted after the results were announced Saturday night. “Usually in American politics, everyone just supports Israel whatever Israel wants to do, but you are taking a more critical position”.

Clinton also found a rare point of agreement with Trump on the matter of NY values but criticised Republicans for making anti-immigration statements a “core of their campaign”.

Colorado also has three at-large delegates – the state party chairman and the two RNC committee members – who are not pledged to any candidate. Sanders now has 38 super delegates compared with Clinton’s 469.

Clinton’s comments come as Sanders launched several verbal volleys in the last week against Clinton, saying that he has doubts about what kind of president Clinton would be and suggesting that Clinton is unqualified to be president.