Bernie Sanders takes Michigan in upset

Senator from Vermont won a huge upset in the state of Michigan on Tuesday night, adding momentum to his once wavering campaign. Before the primary, not a single public poll had Sanders leading in Michigan, with some having Hillary Clinton leading by up to 20%.

Sanders called an impromptu press conference while votes were still being counted to thank voters, who he said had “repudiated the polls” and “repudiated the pundits.”
“We started this campaign 10 months ago, we were 60 or 70 points down in the polls,” Sanders said. “But we’ve seen in poll after poll and state after state, we’ve created the kind of momentum that we need to win. This has been a fantastic night in Michigan.”

In this photo taken May 20, 2015, Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., poses for a portrait before an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. For Democrats who had hoped to lure Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren into a presidential campaign, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders might be the next best thing. Sanders, who is opening his official presidential campaign Tuesday in Burlington, Vermont, aims to ignite a grassroots fire among left-leaning Democrats wary of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is laying out an agenda in step with the party's progressive wing and compatible with Warren's platform _ reining in Wall Street banks, tackling college debt and creating a government-financed infrastructure jobs program. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Out of the last six contests, Sanders has won four of them against Clinton, and any possibility that he might drop out before the Democratic convention has been dispelled.