Bernie Sanders won the Indiana Democratic primary, a victory that will boost his campaign's morale but do little to cut deeply into Clinton's lead of nearly 300 pledged delegates. With 93% of the vote counted, Sanders had won 42 pledged delegates in Indiana and Hilary Clinton will win 36. Seven superdelegates in the state have already declared for Clinton.
But Sanders vowed to fight on, even though he admitted that the path he had was a "narrow" one and relied on convincing Democratic superdelegates -- party officials and lawmakers -- to back him and not Clinton.
"The Clinton campaign, a lot of the media, had decided the campaign was over," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview.
"Apparently, the people of Indiana did not quite agree with that," Sanders said.
Sanders said he had "a shot" to win upcoming primaries in West Virginia, Oregon and Kentucky and argued his new momentum means that even if Clinton's victory is now seen by many Democrats as inevitable, she is hardly enjoying the triumphant march to the finish line that she hoped for. Sanders also challenged Clinton, who would prefer to be turning her attention to Trump, to agree to a debate in California before the state's delegate-rich primary on June 7.
But the main focus of Tuesday night was the Republican race -- and a remarkable change of mood from Trump's camp after a day in which he and Cruz had swapped some of their most vehement attacks of the campaign.
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