The plot for the next man or woman to sit in the Oval Office thickens further after Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders in Kentucky’s Democratic primary this Tuesday. The win means that she has effectively thwarted the Vermont senator’s recent momentum and has given herself a huge boost ahead of the final six primary contests.
Clinton led the race by around 1,800 votes with 99.8 percent of precincts reporting.
The former senator and secretary of state has been trying really hard to recapture her momentum across the nation and is also looking to take help from the Clinton family legacy in Kentucky that made her husband, former president Bill Clinton, the last Democrat to win the state in a presidential race. The same state also gave her a huge victory of Barack Obama back in 2008.
Sanders on the other hand, has been trying to reduce Hillary Clinton’s 767-delegate lead in the democratic presidential race.
Clinton was declared the winner late Tuesday night by the state Democratic Party while Secretary of State, Alison Lundergan Grimes told reporters that Clinton was the unofficial winner.
The party looks set to allocate the state’s 55 earned delegates on Wednesday but it remains to be seen if Clinton can get a leg up based on the narrow margin of her win.
Sanders enjoyed considerable dominance in Eastern and Western Kentucky, especially around the coal fields while Clinton ruled the state’s urban areas and several counties through the state’s central part.
In total, Clinton managed to win 38 of Kentucky’s 120 counties and amassed a 18,932 vote advantage in Jefferson. A trend that has been visible in recent months is that Clinton has dominated a lot in places that play host to sizable African-American populations.
Republican voters were not able to vote for a presidential nominee this week since the party chose Donald Trump in a March 5 caucus.
Apart from 55 delegates who were up for grabs this week, the state’s Democrats have five superdelegates, two of which have already given their support to Clinton. The other two have not been open about who they would vote for while the fifth one is yet to be named.
In the last couple of weeks, Clinton and her husband have made several trips across the state and their presence has drawn small and medium sized crowds.
At the weekend, Hillary Clinton was at Bowling Green, Fort Mitchell, Louisville, Lexington and Hopkinsville.
Sanders attracted a lot of supporters in his events at Bowling Green and Paducah but it was his event in Waterfront Park in Louiseville where he gained a lot of success, attracting around 7,000 people on the same night he won the Indiana primary.
The last poll for the Clinton-Sanders contest was conducted in early March by Public Policy Polling and showed the former to hold an advantage of five percentage points. However, that was before Clinton stated that she was “going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” during a town hall meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
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