Super Tuesday didn’t dent Bernie Sanders’ confidence that he can beat Hillary Clinton and eventually the Republicans.
“I read in the Washington Post that all of the pundits are expecting Clinton to win the nomination. Well that probably means we’re going to win by a landslide,” Sanders boasted at an afternoon rally in Portland, Maine.
Even though the Vermont senator only won four of eleven Super Tuesday contests, he called the day “extraordinary” as he reflected on the progress his campaign has made thus far.
“We were up against the candidate supported by the entire political establishment, someone who had been anointed by the pundits,” he said of Hillary Clinton. “Well guess what? It doesn’t look like she’s so inevitable now.”
Sanders argued that his wins in Colorado, Oklahoma, Vermont and Minnesota yesterday position him to succeed in the general election. On Super Tuesday he also announced that this campaign raised over $42 million during February, $12 million more than the Clinton’s haul.
In his speech, Sanders said that unlike Clinton he hasn’t spent “half my life begging billionaires for campaign contributions” and also urged her to be more forthright about her associations with Wall Street banks.
“We urge Secretary Clinton to share that extraordinary speech,” Sanders said. “Tell us what you said behind closed doors to Goldman Sachs.”
The democratic socialist candidate hopes to do well in Maine after winning New Hampshire and his home state of Vermont by landslides, although he narrowly lost New Hampshire.
“Well on the Democratic side and on the Republican side as well there is one candidate who takes money from the big banks, the fossil fuel industry and perhaps ‘weirdo billionaires,” Sanders said. “And that candidate is not me.”
