Clinton Claims Kentucky, Sanders, Trump Take Oregon

Hillary Clinton took a close race in Kentucky, while Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump declared victories in Oregon, in a solemn primary night Tuesday.

The Clinton win was one of an extremely small margin, as she and Bernie Sanders took close aim at Kentucky last week. Clinton began aggressively campaigning in more urban regions across the state, after her group saw winning potential in The Bluegrass State. Hillary’s husband Bill, had many victories in Kentucky during his own campaigns for president in both 1992 and 1996.

With just a .3% difference in the vote, early projections show the delegates of Kentucky will be split pretty much evenly among Clinton and Sanders. Clinton, who leads the overall delegate count by more than 700 over Sanders, has begun to shift her campaign focus on mostly the general election, where she is expected to have a grueling battle against lone Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Sanders, who claimed a victory in Oregon by a larger margin, is now looking ahead to upcoming primaries in Western States like Montana, New Mexico, the Dakotas, and California, as well as New Jersey. Most of which have large delegate counts that could change the outlook in the race. All of those states vote June 7th.

Most of those primaries and caucuses are expected to go Sanders way, however the Vermont Senator worries that if not all states are won by big margins, his campaign may lose the outright nomination to Clinton prior to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump, the lone candidate left, picked up a large win in Oregon, clinching a large amount of delegates.  Trump has yet to claim the nomination outright, but has plenty of upcoming chances to do so, including the next republican primary on May 24, in Washington State, along with the five others on June 7th.

It is likely the businessman from New York will clinch the nomination outright prior to the primary season ending, meaning he would go into the Republican Convention in Cleveland come July.