Sanders very well poised to turn the tables on Clinton: Analyst

An international lawyer and political analyst says Donald Trump may win the Republican nomination but he is going nowhere, while Hillary Clinton’s early lead comes  from support in Republican states and may not hold up when the primaries move to states which traditionally are more amenable to Bernie Sanders’ far more  progressive political message.

Barry Grossman, who is based on the Indonesian island of Bali, told Press TV on Wednesday that Sanders remains very well poised to turn the tables on Clinton and go on to defeat Trump in a general election, despite the overwhelming mainstream media bias against him. 

US voters casted their ballots across 11 states in a day-long contest known as Super Tuesday, when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to pick the Republican and Democratic White House nominees.

Democrat Clinton and Republican Trump both scored major victories on Super Tuesday. 

Trump emerged as the winner of Republican contests in Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Massachusetts, Vermont and Tennessee, while Clinton triumphed in Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts and Virginia, according to US media projections.

Sanders won in Vermont, Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Colorado.

“Looking at all of this objectively, it seems fair to say that where it matters - that is, in those states which carried Obama to victory in 2008 and 2012 - Clinton and Sanders are for all intents and purposes running neck and neck in the primaries conducted so far, and Clinton’s early overall lead comes from support in traditionally conservative, Republican dominated states," Grossman said.

“With 2,302 delegates still available in states carried by Obama in 2008, 20012, or both, and only 624 in States carried by Republicans in both of those elections, it is fair to say that despite the overwhelming pro-Clinton bias demonstrated by most mainstream media reports, Bernie Sanders has barely started to find his stride and still has plenty of room in traditionally more liberal states to make up the early gap achieved by Clinton in conservative states with a very strong Republican bias,” he stated.

“Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, whose early lead comes primarily from support for her in strong Republican constituencies, is running out of conservative states with which to drive home her early lead,” the analyst added.

“If national opinion polls are any guide, the majority of Americans prefer a Sanders presidency to a Clinton presidency and that reality is something which cannot be easily ignored as the primaries move to states which are far more amenable to a progressive message than those which have already voted,” he noted.

“If Bernie Sanders can keep his supporters motivated and stay in the race long enough, he has every chance of turning the tables on Clinton with a strong showing in states like California, Washington, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and  even Florida.  In any case, the race for the Democrat nomination is far from over, despite the strong bias in favour of Clinton shown by both the party apparatus and the media,” the commentator said.

US public endorse Trump's rhetoric 

Grossman said “on the GOP side, Tuesday's primaries were a public affirmation of Trump's refusal to denounce the Klu Klux Klan. The GOP race has descended in to being even more of a clown show than it usually is, with Donald Trump continuing to enjoy the overwhelming support of America’s racist and reactionary under belly in those primaries contested so far.” 

“With the party hierarchy now openly trying to engineer a grass roots revolt against the reactionary political movement awakened by Trump’s divisive and provocative rhetoric, the party itself looks to be getting ready to implode and move into its own period in the wilderness the way the conservative parties in both Canada and the UK did some years ago,” he pointed out.   

“Of course the Republican Party only has itself to blame for Trump's domination of the primaries since it both underestimated the inclinations of those Americans who comprise its own grass roots support base and failed to field a single credible candidate to oppose him,” he observed. 

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