OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – In the wake of her blowout win in the South Carolina primary, Hillary Clinton is looking to the future, while Bernie Sanders seems stuck in the past.
During stops in Tennessee and Arkansas on Sunday, Clinton shed nearly all references to her Democratic opponent, focusing her fire instead on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Sanders, meanwhile, remained resolute in his message, offering his standard economic-focused speech to a massive crowd in Oklahoma City and making no mention of his South Carolina loss.
“I’m going to need your help here in Oklahoma on Tuesday,” Sanders told over 6,000 cheering fans, after offering his trademark lines about breaking up big financial institutions and reforming the campaign finance system.
But Clinton clearly began to turn the page on Sunday. The morning after gleeful staffers celebrated her sweeping victory in South Carolina, Clinton intensified her focus on the race beyond the party conventions.
“There’s going to be a very, very significant difference between someone like me and what I want to get done for our country and any one of the Republican potential nominees. The stakes could not be higher,” Clinton told a small group gathered in Pine Bluffs, Arkansas Sunday night.