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Clinton Can’t Get to New York Fast Enough After New Sanders Win
The Vermont senator has won six of the last seven contests, but still faces a substantial delegate deficit.
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Bernie Sanders's Wisconsin win gives him fresh credibility to press on to the end against Hillary Clinton—and even fans his team's long-shot ambition for a convention upset in July—but doesn't fundamentally shake Clinton's grip on the nomination heading into New York in two weeks.
Sanders can rightly boast about six wins in the last seven states, but Clinton's final firewall is four of the most delegate-rich states yet to vote, starting with her adopted home state April 19. Sanders has Brooklyn roots but Clinton's electoral career was born in New York, and she's working her network like the senator she was for eight years.