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Clinton’s Southern sweep gives her a commanding lead; Sanders vows to continue
Hillary Clinton emerged from Super Tuesday having regained the mantle of prohibitive front-runner, decisively winning the biggest and most important states in an election that confirmed her overwhelming support from minority voters and left her rival with no clear opening to catch her.
Clinton appeared likely to rack up twice as many delegates from Tuesday's contests as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as she swept through the South with crushing victories in delegate-rich states including Georgia, Virginia and Texas. She also won a narrow victory in Massachusetts.
Along the way, Clinton won more than 8 in 10 African-American voters taking part in primaries as well as two-thirds of the Latino voters in Texas and a majority of white voters in at least six of the 11 states holding Democratic nominating contests.
Her double-digit margins of victory in state after state, including Tennessee, Alabama, and her former home of Arkansas, moved the race into a new phase in which she can now focus on attacking GOP front-runner Donald Trump, rather than tangling with Sanders, the 74-year-old democratic socialist whose earnest campaign has embarrassed her political machine at several turns.
MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/southern-sweep-gives-clinton-a-big-lead-sanders-vows-to-continue/
Clinton appeared likely to rack up twice as many delegates from Tuesday's contests as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as she swept through the South with crushing victories in delegate-rich states including Georgia, Virginia and Texas. She also won a narrow victory in Massachusetts.
Along the way, Clinton won more than 8 in 10 African-American voters taking part in primaries as well as two-thirds of the Latino voters in Texas and a majority of white voters in at least six of the 11 states holding Democratic nominating contests.
Her double-digit margins of victory in state after state, including Tennessee, Alabama, and her former home of Arkansas, moved the race into a new phase in which she can now focus on attacking GOP front-runner Donald Trump, rather than tangling with Sanders, the 74-year-old democratic socialist whose earnest campaign has embarrassed her political machine at several turns.
MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/southern-sweep-gives-clinton-a-big-lead-sanders-vows-to-continue/
