Hillary Clinton, in a close statewide primary win over Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, ran up large pluralities across Bridgeport, according to unofficial Democratic primary results winning the city 7,278 to 3,756. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump also carried Bridgeport.
A sampling of unofficial Democratic precinct results from Registrar’s Office:
Trump won Bridgeport with 694 votes, John Kasich had 251 and Ted Cruz 215, according to unofficial GOP returns.
Clinton and Trump made weekend visits to Bridgeport.
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Black Rock 385 Clinton, 46 for Sanders??? That does not sound right!
Thanks, Len. But why do I not see 132?
The results for state and national races are compiled by State House district. For the 132nd municipal district that would be the 129th. Look for your school under the 129 SH results.
Thanks.
Bridgeport delivered! Congratulations to Hillary. Very excited. Time to unify the party! I am certain moving forward, Sanders knows he has a small window of opportunity to remain relevant. This is not to diminish the passion of the Sanders supporters, many are personal friends. Hillary had to take a back seat to Obama, endorsed him and became Secretary of State. Who even remembers Ross Perot? I wonder what the next few days will bring.
Not used to seeing Black Rock School turnout bested by other districts. Could it be the dense Republican registration? What happened, BRS?
Black Rock School number does not seem right. Double-checking that number.
Thank goodness Bernie Sanders is staying in the race. Congratulations to Hillary Clinton for her four out of five victory. Hillary is being dragged to the left, a place she was not going. Her plans were for Bernie to drop out so she could move back to the middle and a little to the right like her husband did. Bernie will stay until the end and help move the Democratic Party to the left. Thanks because that’s where they need to be.
Well said, Ron.
John and Ron,
You are absolutely correct. But I do not believe Bernie is long for this election cycle.
Bernie has accomplished a great deal with his run but in order to remain relevant at the convention, he will need to concede and push for meaningful platform statements and issues.
Hillary has endorsed a $15 minimum wage but will want a decade or more to phase it in.
Hillary’s idea of affordable college education is allowing people in debt over their heads with college loans to refinance their debt. Wow. That’s a relief.
And I am sure if left to her own pragmatic progressive ways we will learned more about what a pragmatic progressive really means.
Bob, Hillary Clinton is not exciting voters to come out to vote. Hillary needs to find a way to bring Bernie under the tent and allow Bernie to have a large role with the Party’s platform. If Hillary attacks Bernie she will lose out on a lot of his supporters who are new and younger voters that Hillary will need, but also for the down part of the ticket. These new voters plus when Obama joins in on helping Hillary then a lot of change will happen all over and create a new base of voters for years to come. Bernie will back off once Hillary does her sit-down with Bernie. The things Obama was talking about doing but was always blocked by Republicans can work when Hillary and Bernie work things out.
Hillary cannot beat Donald Trump–ridiculous but true. She is losing momentum and sapping the Democratic party of enthusiasm and hope, while Trump is gaining momentum and converts. She has no answer in regard to the international trade and deregulation questions, as well as myriad other questions. WHY WON’T SHE RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS OF HER WALL STREET SPEECHES?! WHAT COULD SHE POSSIBLY HAVE TO LOSE IF SHE IS SINCERE ABOUT “REINING IN WALL STREET” and made no promises contrary to that in the speeches?
She accuses Bernie Sanders of diagnosing problems but not offering concrete solutions (which is untrue), while all she does is pontificate about Trump’s bluster and BS while talking around Sanders’ concrete policy initiative plans. (For instance she says, in her own blustery, falsetto fashion “… We will move toward health care for all Americans …” while ignoring the Sanders unequivocal mandate for a single-payer, universal, healthcare system, such as the one in neighboring Canada or any of a large number of developed countries around the world. And in terms of diagnosing problems, she doesn’t do much of that. She says little about distressed cities or what she would do to revitalize them. If she raised the issue of distressed cities in the US–and there are so many of them–she would have to explain the job exodus and decline of American manufacturing she helped to accelerate. (She talks of bringing expanding advanced manufacturing in the US, but she includes no specifics of how she would accomplish that in terms of targeted industries/technologies, nor any plan to partner with industry in all aspects of developing such industries, such as in providing government training programs with free tuition for qualified participants. (We are losing the global competitiveness war because our government only partners with industry to help them offshore industries/jobs, a la NAFTA and SEATO, and fails to literally partner in development of domestic innovation and production, as is done in China, Japan, Germany, Singapore, Korea, et al.)
Sanders talks about real incentives for student achievement and professional development via free tuition for qualified students at PUBLIC colleges and universities (not a new or revolutionary idea, and common practice in the countries beating our pants off in the global economic competition, which even pay for their students to study abroad/in the US at private and public universities), and, as Bob Walsh pointed out, all Hillary talks about is helping students to refinance their debt.
Truly, Hillary has nothing exciting to offer in this election cycle. She is absolutely lame and lackluster. She is just the “dull” Republican in the 2016 election cycle. But she is also dangerous in that she could become Commander-in-Chief, a position for which she has a demonstrated lack of acumen. Think Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, BENGHAZI. (She couldn’t even manage to respond to the on-going attack on our ambassador and embassy staff over a period of hours ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 911! Five Americans, including our Ambassador, died because of her bad policy decisions and her inability to foresee and deal with a military crisis.) Hillary has a demonstrated incompetence for the position of Commander-and-Chief, among other positions. (She botched her healthcare initiative and sent healthcare 50 years in the wrong direction in the process.)
Hillary will be a disastrous candidate for the Democratic party. The Democratic party needs big change, and it isn’t Hillary, “the face of the status quo.” The Democratic Party will lose this election if they try to compete for real Democrat and independent votes with the Republicrat Candidate, Hillary. (And she can’t be trusted. The tabling of the TPP in order to get her elected will be suspended, and the TPP will move forward if she is elected. And people will believe Trump when he says he will veto that bill.)
Democratic Party, beware of Candidate Hillary. She will assure the election of Donald “Let’s make a (sleazy) deal” Trump.
Bernie Sanders: please stay in the race, even as an independent, and provide a real alternative to the two nightmare candidates. (Hillary would lose to the “game-show guy” anyway.)
Who are the Bridgeport voters supporting Trump? Must be the same bunch of yahoos who think opening a casino is a great idea.