March 28, 2016

After Saturday, Clinton’s Inevitability Shrunk

Clinton will likely win her party’s nomination, but at what political cost?

Bernie Sanders swept the Democrat caucuses in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington Saturday night, eroding Hillary Clinton’s lead in amassed delegates. Still, it wasn’t enough to upend the Democrat race and usher in that “political revolution” the socialist keeps talking about. Currently, Clinton has 1,243 delegates to Sanders’ 975, according to Fox News — and that’s not counting the superdelegates that Clinton courted to her side. The candidates need to collect 2,383 delegates to cinch the nomination. Sanders beat out Clinton by wide margins Saturday night, winning Alaska with 81.6% support, Washington with 72.7% and Hawaii at 69.8%. He walked away that night with 55 delegates — adding mostly energy and donations to his campaign that heads to big-ticket states like New York and Pennsylvania later this month.

Still, this Sanders surge has to be awkward for the Clinton campaign. Recently, her rhetoric has focused on attacking GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, not her actual current opponent, as if she thought her nomination was a forgone conclusion. Yet the poll numbers speak of a very energetic minority in the Democrat Party. “For all the talk about an open convention that could deny Mr. Trump the GOP nomination, the Democratic establishment has done far more to rig the nominating process to favor elites,” wrote The Wall Street Journal. “One reason Mr. Sanders gets no respect is because Democratic elites prefer a nominee who disguises her socialism better than he does.”

Meanwhile, the FBI is scheduling interviews with Clinton’s closest aides regarding her use of email when she was secretary of state, indicating their investigation is almost over. Clinton will likely win her party’s nomination, but at what political cost?

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