Primary election results 2016

Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was an emotional, historic moment for many. But some commentators also fixated on things like Clinton’s voice, or whether she was smiling:

Donald Trump also weighed in on Clinton’s “very average scream”:

It’s amazing to go back and watch Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign announcement. Nearly everything about Sanders’s campaign would change over the following 14 months — except for the candidate himself.

There are no introductions. Sanders begins by pulling a crumpled piece of paper out of his pocket, before turning to a small scattering of reporters gathered around a makeshift podium.

It’s over. It’s really, finally over. More than a year after candidates first started jumping into the race, and five months after voting began, the presidential primary season has concluded with six races in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

With Donald Trump having sewn up the GOP nomination in early May, only the Democratic side really mattered on Tuesday. While Hillary Clinton entered the day with a prohibitive lead in pledged delegates, and enough delegates to secure the nomination once superdelegates are in the mix, Bernie Sanders was not ready to concede, and the huge size of California meant that it was at least metaphysically possible he could win big enough landslides to win the popular vote and pledged delegate count.

Hillary Clinton won Tuesday’s California primary — a victory that will only increase pressure on Bernie Sanders to concede that he has lost the race.

California was called for Clinton at around 6:30 am by the Associated Press and CBS News.

After four months, Tuesday was the final significant day of voting in the presidential primaries — even though, according to multiple media outlets, Hillary Clinton has already wrapped up the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders remains in the race and hasn’t yet conceded.

Six states went to the polls on the Democratic side, with a total of 694 delegates at stake. They are:

The results from primaries in six states are starting to come in, and so far Hillary Clinton has won three states: New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota.

Bernie Sanders has won two states: North Dakota and Montana.

Over at Politico, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti have a dishy look inside the last days of the Bernie Sanders campaign. You should read it in full (seriously, go do that right now). The main takeaway is that Sanders’s aides know they’ve lost; the candidate doesn’t.

The secondary takeaway: The aides are throwing the candidate under the bus. Here, for instance, is the first paragraph:

President Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton Tuesday night to congratulate her on “securing the delegates necessary to clinch the Democratic nomination,” according to a White House statement emailed to reporters.

The president has remained neutral in the primaries, but with voting wrapping up and Clinton emerging triumphant, there’s been a flurry of reports that an official endorsement of Clinton from Obama will likely come soon — whether or not Sanders decides to drop out of the race. And Obama’s acknowledgment that Clinton in the winner is likely a prelude to just such an endorsement.

It was a historic and emotional night for Hillary Clinton. The first woman presumptive nominee for a major political party, Clinton claimed her victory in front of a cheering crowd of supporters in Brooklyn, New York.

As Clinton addressed the audience, she seemed more comfortable onstage than she has often been throughout the campaign season.

The final significant day of presidential primary voting has come to a close, and Hillary Clinton is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

While the exact vote totals in a few states, especially California, were still being counted at press time, preliminary totals make it clear that Clinton will end up with more total delegates, more pledged delegates, and more total votes nationwide than Bernie Sanders — making her the winner of the race by every traditional metric.

For the first time in American history, a woman has become a major political party’s presumptive nominee for president.

With her victory in New Jersey on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton officially won a majority of pledged delegates over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Democratic primary voters have spoken, and they have chosen a woman to lead their presidential ticket in 2016.

This is the paradox of Hillary Clinton: She has achieved something no one else in the history of American politics has even come close to doing, yet she is widely considered an inept, flawed candidate.

These two things are not unrelated.

There was an unfamiliar presence on stage with Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee claimed his victories Tuesday night: a teleprompter.

The end of a difficult day for Trump — having been lambasted by members of his own party for making racist comments — Tuesday night was Trump’s chance to be presidential with a scripted address to his supporters at his headquarters in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

With a convincing win in the New Jersey primary, Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party nomination and become the first woman nominated by a major party for the presidency. This is, obviously, a major historical moment, but her campaign has generally struggled to articulate exactly why it matters beyond symbolism.

Electing Clinton would be a break from that pattern, but it would also drive further breaks. Studies show that when women achieve high office, female advancement in politics “trickles down,” with a woman governor or senator inspiring a downstream boost in women state legislators. These victories would themselves carry important symbolic value, but beyond that they would generate concrete changes in the governance of the country — including more attention to issues related to child care, family life, women’s health, and the needs of the neediest.

Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in the New Jersey primary on Tuesday night, deflating Sanders’s hopes for a miraculous last-minute comeback.

The state was called for Clinton around 9 pm Eastern by CNN and Fox News.

After a bitter and sometimes acrimonious primary, supporters of both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton can hopefully agree on at least one thing: These are the best yard signs of the 2016 presidential primary.

The tweet above comes from Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, who has supported Clinton but — as I reported during the New York primary — lives in a town that’s heavily pro-Sanders.

Donald Trump swept primaries in five states in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Tuesday night, with Hillary Clinton close behind with four victories of her own. It was a night that solidified the position of both presidential frontrunners, although none of their rivals were ready to concede the race.

Trump won all five states: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

But his campaign greatly exceeded expectations and showed that the kind of politics he represents is considerably more viable and mainstream than most of us in the press realized. He showed that there’s a coalition ready to support and finance candidates that embrace a more democratic style of politics than mainstream Democrats thought possible.

It’s a young coalition whose clout and power will only grow in years to come. Now it’s time for Bernie to point the revolution in a new direction and lay groundwork for the future.

Another caucus, another win for Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has been called the winner of Wyoming’s Democratic caucuses by multiple media outlets, continuing a recent winning streak.

However, the exact amount of Wyoming’s 14 delegates Sanders will come away will depend both on his final margin of victory — since Democratic contests all allot their delegates proportionally — and on the final outcome of the state Democratic convention next month. And early indications are that this isn’t a complete blowout win for Sanders, like several other recent caucuses that he won by around 50 points.

Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is based on a simple theory: There is a reserve army of liberal voters who’ve sat out past elections but who stand ready to support a more stridently leftist Democratic nominee.

By getting these historic nonvoters to turn out, Sanders claims, he could win the general election, maybe take back the House and Senate, and have an organized public ready to pressure Congress to pass a democratic socialist agenda.

Tuesday’s presidential primary elections in Wisconsin weren’t particularly close. Though there are still some votes left to be counted, Bernie Sanders won the Democratic race easily with about 56 percent of the vote. And Ted Cruz was triumphant in the Republican contest, pulling about half of the statewide vote and leading Donald Trump by double digits.

But the winners aren’t all that matter in these races. For Democrats, every race is proportional, so the margin by which Sanders beats Clinton will determine how much ground she gains on her in the delegate count. (At the beginning of the night, he was about 230 pledged delegates behind Clinton, and 86 delegates are up for grabs in Wisconsin.) And with 86 percent of the vote counted, Sanders led Clinton by 13 points — which is only good enough to give him a net gain of 11 or so delegates, should that margin hold.

Wisconsin voters have spoken loud and clear: They think Donald Trump is a loser.

Ted Cruz won a solid victory in the Badger State’s Republican primary Tuesday, according to early calls by multiple networks. Trump was projected to finish in second, and John Kasich was far back in third place.

Bernie Sanders fans can cheer: He secured a big win in Wisconsin, with Fox News and NBC News calling victory for him on Tuesday night.

Sanders was favored in the state, and polls had consistently given him a lead of 2 to 8 points. Wisconsin is heavily white, has a strong network of youth voters, and is historically receptive to progressive politicians — all of which make it favorable territory for Sanders.

Though Republicans had Saturday off, election-wise, Democrats in three states — Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii — headed to the polls. And Bernie Sanders did fantastically, not only winning all three caucuses but winning them in landslides. The delegates haven’t all been allotted yet, but it appears likely he’ll net around 70 more delegates than Clinton in Saturday’s contests. Yet this would still mean he’s 230 or so pledged delegates behind Clinton — better off than he was Saturday morning, but worse off than he was on March 10.

As for what’s next, Republicans are on a bit of a break — the only state holding a primary or caucus in the next three weeks will be Wisconsin, on Tuesday, April 5. Democrats will also vote in Wisconsin that day, and will hold caucuses in Wyoming later that week, on Saturday, April 9.

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders all notched victories in Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses in Arizona, Utah, and Idaho. But Trump and Sanders came out ahead, ending the night having picked up the most delegates in their quest for their parties’ nominations.

Trump and Cruz split the two Republican contests — Trump won big in Arizona and Cruz won bigger in Utah.