Bernie Sanders Takes RI, But Clinton Notches 3 Wins

Former Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton will win Tuesday's Democratic Maryland primary by a "significant" margin, NBC Account projected as acclamation bankrupt in the state. She was aswell projected to win her party's Delaware and Pennsylvania contests.

In Rhode Island, however, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the projected winner, according to NBC. The night's Connecticut contest, meanwhile, was too abutting to alarm as of 8:39 p.m. ET.

Voters hit the acclamation in 5 states Tuesday as Sanders' hopes of surmounting Clinton's agent advance appeared to
dwindle. The agent trailed by added than 200 apprenticed assembly branch into the contests in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware. Including absolved cool delegates, Clinton leads by 726, according to an NBC count.

"Certainly the algebraic gets harder afterwards tonight — that's bright just from the Maryland numbers," U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley ofOregon, a Sanders supporter, told MSNBC on Tuesday night.

And in her Tuesday night achievement speech, Clinton addled a accepted acclamation tone, hitting out several times at GOP beloved Donald Trump and speaking of affair unity.

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Early avenue acclamation corrective a account of the aborigine abject in Tuesday's Democratic contests: The U.S. abridgement was the a lot of important affair for 44 percent of respondents, followed by 22 percent adage assets asperity and 20 percent pointing to bloom care, according to NBC News.

Keeping with the capacity of their candidate's campaign, 78 percent of Tuesday Sanders voters said they believed that Wall Street hurts the U.S. economy. Alone 51 percent of Clinton supporters agreed, according to aboriginal avenue acclamation from NBC News.

Interestingly, 82 percent of Clinton supporters in Pennsylvania said they anticipation the advancing Democratic attack has activated the party, while alone 58 percent of Sanders voters in the accompaniment said the same. A boyhood of Pennsylvania respondents abaft both candidates said the chase had disconnected their affair — 37 percent for Sanders and alone 12 percent for Clinton, NBC reported.

On gun control, 57 percent of Tuesday Democratic voters said they anticipation Clinton would bigger handle that issue, and 37 percent said Sanders, according to an aboriginal avenue poll.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Agent Bernie Sanders (L) and above Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton during the Democratic presidential candidates agitation sponsored by MSNBC at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, February 4, 2016.

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Clinton has led contempo acclamation in the night's better Democratic prizes, Pennsylvania and Maryland, according to Real Clear Politics. She and Sanders aswell face off in Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.

While Sanders' attack has said it affairs to amend its continuing afterwards Tuesday's voting, Sanders maintains that he will break in until the party's assemblage this summer, The New York Times appear Tuesday.

Sanders batten almost aboriginal on Tuesday night, just afterwards acclamation were appointed to close. Talking to a army in West Virginia, the Vermont agent gave a alternative of his accepted butt speech, but accent his competitiveness adjoin Trump in head-to-head polls.

Meanwhile, Trump on Tuesday apprenticed Sanders to run as an absolute should he lose the party's nomination. This would apparently sap votes from Clinton in the accepted election.