Where We Are
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- Bernie Sanders has run a valiant, historically consequential campaign. But barring force majeure, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. The already nearly prohibitive delegate math just got considerably worse for Sanders, with New York, California and Maryland still on the table, and this time Clinton pretty much held her polling leads in every state with the possible exception of Illinois. Her lead in national polls is double digits and trending upward, in a context in Sanders would need win by substantial margins going forward. It’s over.
- This is a useful explanation for why Clinton did so much better in Ohio than Michigan.
- The Republican race is obviously more complicated. Trump is the only candidate who can win a majority of delegates, which means that the Republican candidate will either be Trump or someone who had to depose trump at a contested convention. Either way, this is Excellent. News. For. The. Democratic. Party, albeit with a downside risk horrible enough that one can’t be unambiguously happy.
- Obviously, nobody is going to top Chris Mathews for the evening’s most molten take, but these are certainly solid entries.
- Vote suppression in North Carolina.
- More on the National Review‘s new war on the white working class.
- An entertaining requiem for the hapless Rubio.