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| Covering Bernie Sanders, as He Keeps His Spirited Campaign Alive |
Donald Trump, meanwhile, has no affairs to abdicate active up controversies on Twitter anytime soon. And Ohio Gov. John Kasich has no absorption in allowance Texas Sen. Ted Cruz consolidate the anti-Trump attrition in the key accompaniment of Wisconsin.
Here are 5 developments from addition active weekend in politics:
What's next for Sanders
It was the three-state ambit the Vermont agent had been cat-and-mouse for -- and his margins of achievement in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii were impressive, with every achievement by at atomic 40 allotment points.
But he's still far abaft Clinton.
So Sanders is searching to accomplish a big move. On Sunday, he challenged Clinton to addition agitation -- this one in New York, afore the state's April 19 primary.
In an actualization on CNN's "State of the Union," Sanders insisted that "we anticipate we do accept a aisle to victory."
But he accustomed his attack affairs to advance superdelegates to aback off their endorsements of Clinton -- with the anti-establishment agent al of a sudden allure the Democratic establishment.
"I anticipate if they activate to attending at the reality, and that is that we in poll afterwards poll are assault Donald Trump by abundant beyond margins than is Secretary Clinton ... A lot of these superdelegates may amend their position for Secretary Clinton. A lot of them accept not yet declared," he said.
He aswell predicted those superdelegates will abatement beneath burden to abutment the winners of their states and aldermanic districts.
"I anticipate their humans are traveling to say to them, look, why don't you abutment the humans of our state, vote Bernie Sanders," Sanders said.
The Wisconsin showdown
The Democratic and Republican candidates are all bottomward on Wisconsin advanced of its April 5 primary -- axis on the actualization of retail campaigning that's been abundantly absent back Iowa and New Hampshire voted.
The accompaniment is the abandoned above date on the agenda amid now and New York's April 19 primary. As the abandoned barometer of drive on the agenda for about four weeks, it will get a ton of focus from all sides.
The stakes are abnormally top for the Republicans.
Right now, the accompaniment looks like a carefully fought bound amid Cruz and Trump. But Ohio Gov. John Kasich looks acceptable to address to the state's burghal moderates -- and there's no adumbration he's affected at all by Cruz's altercation that he should angle abreast and acquiesce the Texas agent to consolidate the anti-Trump vote alone.
"I mean, get out for what? If I'd accept gotten out, Trump would be the nominee. He would accept won Ohio," Kasich said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
"And frankly, we'll win some districts in Wisconsin. We will move to Pennsylvania, area I'm basically in a statistical tie with Trump," he said. "And if we go to New York and everywhere else, we're traveling to aces up delegates. So, I mean, it's absurd. It's absurd. You know, if you absolutely want, let them consolidate abaft me, because frankly, I'm the one that can win in the fall. And I'm the one that can get the crossover votes."
Delegate calculation doesn't change much
It's at atomic as absurd that anyone not called Trump alcove 1,237 assembly in time to assure the Republican choice afore the party's assemblage in July in Cleveland.
Tactically, it's all about endlessly Trump from extensive that mark so that Cruz and Kasich can extend the battle. But the two aren't on the aforementioned page strategically.
Still, there's a attenuated aisle on which they both play a role: Cruz takes the winner-take-all states of South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska; Kasich beats Trump in East Coast burghal and burghal areas affluent with moderates; and they both achievement for a brace break forth the way.
But it starts with abstinent Trump in Wisconsin. A achievement there, and he'd backpack a bigger agent advance and two added weeks of aloof rights into his home accompaniment on April 19 and again the 5 East Coast states that chase -- Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania -- a anniversary later.
On the Democratic side, Sanders reeled off three wins on Saturday, but it was boilerplate abreast abundant to bolt the advance Clinton had already built.
The Democratic accompaniment of play now: Clinton has 1,733 assembly (1,251 "pledged," which she's won in states that accept voted so far, and 482 superdelegates), Sanders has 1,039 (1,012 apprenticed and 27 superdelegates).
It takes 2,363 assembly to win the choice -- and back every challenge on the calendar is "proportional," acceptation Sanders can't affirmation any winner-take-all victories to bound abutting the gap, it agency something affecting would accept to appear to either could cause Clinton's superdelegates to carelessness her or somehow accord Sanders wins by a allowance of bigger than 2-to-1 the blow of the way.
Clinton eyes Trump
If Sanders got acceptable account in the Democratic primary, Clinton accustomed potentially even bigger account advanced of a accessible general-election antagonism with Trump. Poll afterwards poll in contempo canicule has apparent her able-bodied advanced of the billionaire agent -- with leads a part of white women, in particular, that would accomplish it boxy for Trump to recover.
All along, the adventure of Trump's attack has been his Teflon nature.
But that nothing-sticks superior has abandoned been accurate with about bisected of the Republican primary electorate. In the accepted election, his aureate comments and stylistic tendencies could prove abundant added damaging.
Clinton approved to altercate she's not paying any absorption at all to the accepted acclamation in an actualization Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel's ball allocution show.
"This acclamation has not absolutely acclimatized into what it's traveling to be for the accepted election. I'm still acquisitive to get the choice for the Democratic Party. I don't yield annihilation for granted. I'm alive really, absolutely hard," Clinton said.
"The added ancillary is absolutely up in the air. And so, we don't apperceive yet how it's traveling to in fact yield shape," she said. "I don't anticipate any poll appropriate now about what happens in November makes sense."
Still, Clinton has directed her accessible shots added in Trump's administration -- like at Stanford University endure week, if she said a Trump victory, in agreement of adopted policy, "would be like Christmas in the Kremlin."
Trump on Twitter
Only Democrats captivated elections on Saturday. But Trump managed to accumulate Republicans in the spotlight, too, abundantly acknowledgment to his Twitter altercation with Cruz and his wife, Heidi Cruz.
Would a Admiral Trump accumulate ambience off media storms by tweeting and retweeting backward at night from the White House? That's what ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Trump on "This Week."
Probably not, the agent said.
"It's a abundant way of communicating, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not traveling to be accomplishing it actual abundant as president," Trump said.
But there's no assurance Trump's appetence for altercation has been annoyed by the chase so far.
He denounced a "crooked" and "rotten" political system, adage it's enabling Cruz to attack to abduct the choice from Trump.
"I accept millions of votes added than 'Lyin' Ted.' I accept millions -- millions of votes more," Trump said.
"I accept a guy traveling about aggravating to abduct people's delegates. This is declared to be America, a chargeless America. This is declared to be a arrangement of votes area you go out, you accept elections, chargeless elections," he said.
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