Clinton focuses on general, while Sanders sticks to script

Hillary Clinton now has a 92 pledged delegates to 65 for Sanders-out of 2,383 needed to win. If she wins a majority of the delegate Tuesday, it will become ever more hard for Bernie Sanders to catch her. Not with 17 states voting in the next two weeks.

And 11 of them vote today, Super Tuesday, on the Democratic side: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia, plus US territory American Samoa.

When Sanders landed in Minneapolis, he told reporters the loss was all part of the process. “We are not taking anything, and we are not taking anyone, for granted”.

Clinton initially stressed February’s four early states. And look, President Obama appointed her and look what she’s done. Her aides coined the phrase “March Matters” on social media.

While Trump spends far more time attacking his Republican rivals, he has previewed some lines he would likely use against Clinton, describing her as a liar and failed secretary of state.

Mr. Sanders has vowed to fight on but has admitted he faces an uphill struggle to secure his party’s nomination.

“On Tuesday we’re going to have over 800 delegates being selected”.

“At the end of tomorrow, I think 15 states will have spoken”, Sanders said. “I think that in these days where people have some justifiable concerns about Wall Street and its political power, its political connections, particularly after the Wall Street bailouts, it is very important that there not even be the appearance of impropriety”. She mentioned her “esteemed opponent” and referred to some of his more well-known plans, but voters in the audience would be forgiven if they missed the references.

“Democrats in New Zealand have made the first contribution to what could be a decisive day in US Primary elections”, said Katie Solon, International Chair of Democrats Abroad. Fewer than 1 in 6 voters in SC were under the age of the 30.

“That’s not happening here, folks, that’s never going to happen here”, Trump said at a Virginia rally.

Most of the polling didn’t address the possibility that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg would run as an independent, but some of it did – and found the former mayor took “significant” votes away from Clinton in heavily Democratic New York City and the surrounding suburbs, a source familiar with the data said. “What we need is to be whole”, she said at a medical college, playing off of Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”. The poll shows Clinton winning 70 percent of the black vote and 60 percent of the Hispanic vote.

Some are attributing Clinton’s strong support in the South to the region’s large African-American population, which helped propel her to victory in the SC primary.

“She’ll hit the ground running”, he said.

Hillary can probably also count on the support of most sectors of the business community in 2016.

Clinton also is expected to do well in Arkansas, where her husband was governor and remains popular. Sanders can’t just cede all of these states and focus on the Northeast and the West. Yes, it’s one state, but Sanders had one task here: To beat expectations when it comes to black voters.

Maybe someone should remind the press, as Clinton once tried to do: After New Hampshire, only two states had held primaries or caucuses.

At the beginning of the month following their near-tie in the Iowa caucus, Clinton held a 50% to 32% lead over Sanders.

Another six states vote the following week.

Sanders, who has energized the party’s liberal wing and successfully courted numerous party’s youth, on Sunday acknowledged he had been “decimated” by Clinton in SC. For example, Trump may win most of the states, but Rubio, Cruz and Kasich could split up delegates. For Republicans, free enterprise and limited government were guarantors of equality of opportunity, ensuring anyone could reach his (hers, not so much) potential in a society where class divisions were less impermeable than anywhere else.

Lesley Clark and William Douglas contributed.