Associated PressFebruary 24, 2020
16min255
He couldn't compete with Hillary Clinton's apparatus, but leads the 2020 field.
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Associated PressFebruary 24, 2020Associated PressFebruary 4, 2020
14min395
There's no timeline for the full results.
Darryl PaulsonMay 23, 2016
7min251
When the 2016 presidential campaign began, everyone believed Hillary Clinton would quickly wrap up the Democratic nomination since she faced what many saw as token opposition. It was the Republicans, who had enough candidates to field a football team, who were expected to have a bitter, protracted primary. As so often has been the case in […]
Mitch PerryApril 20, 2016
5min208
It was on May 8, 2008, after the returns from Democratic primary results from North Carolina and Indiana had come in, when the late Tim Russert told viewers that the intense battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was over. “We now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to […]
Mitch PerryMarch 29, 2016
5min193
The Democratic race for president is already pretty well decided, right? Hillary Clinton is at least 250 pledged delegates ahead of Bernie Sanders in the race for the nomination, and is up by more than 400 super delegates. That’s with 32 states having participated to date. The Sanders camp, though, is feeling very optimistic at […]
Mitch PerryMarch 16, 2016
3min410
Tuesday night was huge for Hillary Clinton in her spirited contest with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination: The former secretary of state pulled off a royal flush in taking five states. Yet the Sanders campaign insisted all is well on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon. Campaign manager Jeff Weaver said […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2016
6min448
Bernie Sanders continues to lead in New Hampshire and is staying within striking distance in Iowa, but what happens after that? Apparently, even top level staff of the Sanders campaign aren’t willing to predict how they’ll do March 1, when two states hold caucuses and nine more hold primaries, many in the South, where the Vermont […]
Mitch PerryDecember 7, 2015
10min350
The Bernie Sanders candidacy has been built to be fueled by momentum. In September, top campaign strategists Jeff Weaver and Ted Devine acknowledged that the Vermont independent senator probably must win Iowa or New Hampshire to have any chance at knocking off Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president. What happens after that? Well, then it’s on […]