Sanders wins Minnesota
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is projected to win the Minnesota caucuses on Tuesday, giving his supporters some comfort on a night in which he was dominated by Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Minnesota was seen as crucial to Sanders’s Super Tuesday strategy and a must-win; caucuses tend to turn out a higher proportion of the Democratic Party’s more liberal activist base.
{mosads}Had he lost in Minnesota, his campaign would have been declared all but dead.
Sanders had held large rallies in Minnesota and the state has a whiter electorate than many Southern states, making it favorable turf for the Vermont senator.
But Sanders’s Minnesota victory does nothing to overcome the major obstacle blocking his path to the Democratic nomination: his lack of success in wooing black voters.
Sanders also won his home state of Vermont as well as Oklahoma and Colorado Tuesday night. Clinton won in Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Massachusetts and Virginia.
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