Tuesday Results Make Clinton’s Delegate Lead All But Insurmountable

After sweeping all five contests in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton has built an even more insurmountable lead over Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination. Clinton now has a pledged delegate lead of 1,139 to 825, meaning Sanders would need to win 58 percent of the remaining pledged delegates at stake to draw even with Clinton by June. That’s a virtual impossibility given Democrats’ all-proportional delegate allocation system. CONT.

David Wasserman, Cook Political Report

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