Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, left, and Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, right. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images; Joshua Lott/Getty Images)
While Hillary Clinton won the Guam Democratic Caucus on Saturday, her net 1 delegate haul was swamped by Bernie Sanders being awarded 49 more delegates in Washington state. According to a district-level breakdown of the state’s primary results, Sen. Sanders netted 22 more delegates than Mrs. Clinton out of the 101 delegates awarded.
Mrs. Clinton, the party frontrunner, picked up 18 of the remaining district-level delegates. With the 9 delegates she won on Election Day, her total haul increased to 27. Still, even though the newly awarded delegates won’t give Sen. Sanders an edge needing to win 66% of the remaining pledged delegates, he remains a thorn in her side as the other side of the aisle wraps up their nomination process.
Donald Trump, who is expected to sweep almost all of the remaining states, became the presumptive nominee following his win in Indiana, a strange twist of events that the vast majority of the experts expected to be the case for Mrs. Clinton.
Clinton entered Saturday with 1,683 pledged delegates, to 1,362 for Sanders, according to the PPD delegate tracker. Now, the total of pledged delegates has Mrs. Clinton leading Sen. Sanders 1705 to 1415. With superdelegates, she leads 2228 to 1454.
Meanwhile, in Guam, Mrs. Clinton won nearly 60% of the vote in Guam, though she was only awarded 4 delegates to 3 for Sen. Sanders. The Western Pacific island has just seven pledged delegates, thus both Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Sanders only reserved five-figure ad buys.
Sen. Sanders went into the Guam Caucus with the momentum, having won the Indiana Democratic Primary earlier this week. He is likely to score another victory this Tuesday in the West Virginia Democratic Primary, where he has a lead in recent polling and the PPD average.
