WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders has added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia, but it’s a victory that will do little to slow his rival’s steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton entered the night fewer than 200 delegates shy of the 2,383 she needs to secure the nomination. To win it, she needs just 17 percent of the delegates at stake in the remaining contests.
That means she could lose all the states left to vote by a landslide and still emerge as the nominee, so long as all of her supporters among the party insiders known as superdelegates continue to back her.
Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary in Nebraska but it’s a victory for the Democratic front-runner that won’t get her any closer to clinching her party’s nomination.
That’s because Nebraska allocated all 25 of its delegates to this summer’s Democratic National Convention in a caucus held on March 5 that was won by the Vermont senator.
However, Clinton has already largely shifted her focus to the general election and the presumptive GOP nominee, Donald Trump.
Trump picked up all 36 delegates available in Nebraska’s Republican presidential primary, giving him 89 percent of the delegates needed to win the GOP’s nomination for president.
Trump is the only candidate left in the race and is the party’s presumptive nominee, although other candidates were still listed on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary elections in Nebraska and West Virginia.
The billionaire businessman won at least three delegates in West Virginia. The other 31 delegates in West Virginia are elected directly by voters. Their names appear on the ballot, along with the presidential candidate they support.
