On April 7, the state of Wisconsin held their primaries. The governor of the state wanted to extend with the help of mail-by-voting, but Republicans intervened in that state and made sure some polling sites remained open, forcing g some citizens to brave the ‘new normal’ of the outside world (see las blog). Early polling showed a 19 percent drop. I’ll get back to the results later.
One day after, the unexpected happened (well, at least to me): Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent senator and one of two remaining Democratic candidates remaining in the presidential race, dropped out.
The other candidate still remaining in the race is Joe Biden. He is now the presumptive presidential candidate in the Democratic field.
I will post his commencement speech. Even though he is out of the race, Sanders is going to remain on the ballots and try to acquire more delegates and hope for a runoff in the Democratic Convention. He sees himself as winning the “ideological path” as they go forward.
Here is the full speech below:
It was expected at some point, but I was still surprised as he stayed in the fight all the way until the end when he ran in the 2016 primary, knowing full well that Hillary Clinton was going to be the presumptive nominee. I almost thought there would’ve been a repeat here as well.
Which bring us to Alaska and Wisconsin, which were also the final two states that started their primary voting before Sanders. The results however would have to wait until the absentee votes that were received over the weekend.
Joe Biden won both contests as expected. Biden won 11 of the 15 delegates, and it’s not clear how many he’ll pick up in Wisconsin but as of last count ihe’s won 54 of the 84 delegates (Sanders has won 15 so far).
A total delegate count meter hasn’t been updated yet for me to copy and paste on this blog, but this inches Biden towards the 1300 mark while sander is nearing 930. My guess is that the remaining polls will either be a split over delegates, or Biden being the presumptive will get all the candidates. Sanders’ name will still be on the official ballots of the remaining states, so he’s going to try and get the necessary 15 percent threshold to acquire as many delegates as he can to enforce a runoff. He has endorsed Biden today, so now we have the backing of the next presidential candidate from a full count of those candidates who dropped.
I will update this when I can get an official total count meter when all the votes are tallied up from the Wisconsin primary. If not from the main page that I pull the image from, then from another site.
UPDATE @ 4/14/20: Here is the official delegate count - I tried to get the count from Politico but it hasn't updated their count with Alaska & Wisconsin's results. So I went ahead with the delete count from the The New York Times website. I might use them from here on out.
NEXT: Wyoming is the next state that will proceed ahead with their primaries on Friday via voting-by-mail, where 14 delegates will be awarded to the candidate(s) who maintain a threshold of 15 percent or above.
Update on NEXT: When I wrote this, I didn't realize until after when I wrote about Ohio as the next primary state that I COMPLETELY skipped over Wyoming, which will have its vote Friday, and then Ohio will be next. As a result, I decided to delete Ohio's write-in and will re-post it under this category in the course of my next blog and wrote a quick blurb about Wyoming instead. The Wyoming blog will be this weekend.
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