Hillary adds +2 pledged delegates to her lead, because of her victory in the North Mariana Islands caucuses. She increases her pledged delegate lead to +225!
FiveThirtyEight just updated their tracker. The new delegate count is : 776 - 551, in favor of Clinton.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/…
They both had targets of +3 delegates. Clinton exceeded her target by +1. Sanders missed his target by -1. Total of +2 for Clinton. Every pledged delegate net gain for Clinton adds to the already near impossible task that Sanders has to close the gap.
To put Clinton’s lead in perspective and the mountain that has to be climbed after you get this far behind. Barack Obama had a +136 delegate lead after the 2008 WI primary. Mini-Super Tuesday took place shortly thereafter and she was only able to cut Obama’s lead by 4 delegates, even though she won two states.
Sanders will have to start winning upcoming states by margins that Clinton won in the South and realistically, these type of wins have to start this upcoming Tuesday.
If Clinton ends up with more pledged delegates after March 15, I realistically don't see a path for Sanders to overcome her commanding lead.
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Clinton wins the Northern Marianas Islands caucuses
thehill.com/...
Clinton won 54 percent of the vote — a total of 102 votes — while rival Bernie Sanders got 34 percent — a total of 65 votes.
The former secretary of State picks up four more pledged delegates, while Sanders gets two.