Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 02:02 pm
Hillary Clinton put an exclamation point on her primary campaign Tuesday night with a huge win over Bernie Sanders in the Wahington D.C. Democratic primary contest.
With well over half the vote counted in D.C., the former Secretary of State is routing Sanders by almost 60 points – 79 percent to 21 percent.
The victory will do little as far as changing the outcome of the primary race – Clinton is already the presumptive Democratic nominee – but it does give her more momentum as she pivots toward an already-heated general election campaign against Donald Trump.
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The storyline to watch as Clinton coasts to victory in the nation’s capital is what Bernie Sanders decides to do next.
The Vermont senator has said that he planned to stay in the race until the final contest, after which he would assess his candidacy, but how soon he will drop out remains to be seen. The news that Sanders will meet with Clinton on Tuesday night suggests that he will concede sooner rather than later.
After Clinton’s big victories in several states last week, including California and New Jersey, there has been a concerted effort on the part of top Democrats, as well as Sanders, to bring the party together to defeat Donald Trump.
As the primary season comes to a close and divisions in the Democratic Party begin to heal, it’s only a matter of time before we see a Clint0n-Sanders joint rally.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
