A Call to the Heart

Despite trailing behind Hillary Clinton in polls, Sanders once again proved his appeal to disaffected midwest voters by pulling off his 18th victory of 2016 Bernie Sanders threw a last-minute hurdle in front of Hillary Clinton’s march toward the Democratic party nomination on Tuesday by clinching a surprise victory in the Indiana primary. Despite trailing by an average of seven points in opinion polls and losing a string of bigger, more diverse states on the east coast, Sanders once again proved his appeal to disaffected midwest voters by pulling off his 18th victory of 2016, according to Associated Press projections. [Read more].

• Dan Roberts and Ben Jacob, Bernie Sanders pulls off shock victory over Hillary Clinton in Indiana, The Guardian, May 4, 2016

Bernie Sanders celebrates his first electoral victory as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981. Photo: Rob Swanson.