Sanders upsets Clinton in Indiana Democratic primary; Trump wins GOP contest
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders won Indiana's Democratic primary Tuesday night, scoring a late victory over front-runner Hillary Clinton.
But it's a win that won't change the reality of the Democratic race.
The Vermont senator is far behind the former secretary of state in the delegate count. He won't win by a large enough margin Tuesday to keep Clinton from collecting at least some delegates.
Clinton entered the night with 91 percent of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party.
Donald Trump on Tuesday won the Republican presidential primary in Indiana, continuing his surge toward clinching the GOP nomination.
The win for Trump was a blow to Ted Cruz, who dropped out of the race after the results became known. The chairman of the Republican National Committee later declared Trump to be the "presumptive nominee" of the GOP.
Trump is only about 200 delegates shy of the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination.
Among his supporters Tuesday was Roger Willett, a 51-year-old Republican who says he has been a Trump supporter since the businessman's campaign began.
Willett works as a driver escorting oversize truck loads and complained that the economy in rural western Indiana offers few prospects, particularly for people just getting out of school. He says he's tired of voting for career politicians and called Trump "a working man, for us."
Donald Trump will collect at least 45 delegates for his victory in Indiana, putting him on a solid path to clinch the nomination and avoid a contested convention.
There are still 12 delegates left to be allocated.
Trump needs to win just 43 percent of the remaining delegates to capture the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7.
He has won a majority of the delegates allocated so far.
Trump's rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, have been mathematically eliminated from reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination before the convention. Their only hope is to block Trump and force a contested convention in which no one arrives with a majority of the delegates.
The AP delegate count:
Trump: 1,041.
Cruz: 565.
Kasich: 152.
The economy was weighing heavily on the minds of Indiana voters as they cast ballots in their state's primary election.
More than 9 in 10 Republican primary voters and more than 8 in 10 Democratic primary voters are either very or somewhat worried about the economy, according to early results from exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research.
Asked about some specific economic issues, two-thirds of Democratic primary voters say Wall Street mostly hurts the economy. And they're evenly divided over whether trade with other countries mostly helps or hurts the American economy.