WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential primary in Nebraska, but it’s a victory for the Democratic front-runner that won’t get her any closer to clinching her party’s nomination.
That’s because Nebraska allocated all 25 of its delegates to this summer’s Democratic National Convention in a caucus held on March 5 that was won by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
He took home 15 delegates from that caucus, while Clinton won 10.
Earlier Tuesday, Sanders won the Democratic primary in West Virginia.
But even with that win, he’s far behind Clinton in the all-important delegate count.
When including the party officials known as superdelegates who can back any candidate, Clinton has 2,238 delegates – or 94 percent of the 2,383 needed to win. Sanders has 1,468.