and by and large, that has been the story on the democratic side for this whole presidential primary every state has seen lower democratic turnout compared to the last contested democratic primary, which was in 2008. and we saw that pattern emerge, right away in the primary season. i think we were the first national news outlet to point out that this was happening. we now know that it has continued throughout the primary season and into this week. we can now tell you in all five states that voted this week in tuesday, in all five of those states, turnout was down for democrats. and conversely, it was up for republicans, by a lot. in rhode island, when democratic turnout dropped 35%, republican turnout went up 320%. in connecticut, democratic turnout was down, republican turnout was up by 259%. in pennsylvania republican turnout was up 94%. in maryland, it was up 75%. in delaware, it was up 144%. and in all of those states, as republican turnout went up, democratic turnout went down. republicans have seen their turnout numbers go up in nearly every single state that has voted so far i

now, one of the major points of contention in the democratic primary, one of the main bones that boig has had to pick with hillary clinton, one of the key distinctions between these two democratic candidates is that bernie sanders would not accept major support from super pacs while hillary clinton has. priorities in action is the super pac for hillary clinton. when they were formed for this presidential effort, and they started raising money, its anticipate been reported that they didn't anticipate spending any money on the democratic primary at all. now bernie sanders ended up putting up a tougher than expected fight in priorities usa did end up spending millions of dlabz dollars on behalf of hillary clinton in the primary in order to fend off bernie sanders and try to get clinton the nomination. but what they were really designed for was the general election. we are about to see what that looks like because the associated press was first to report today that priorities usa action is planning to start the hillary clinton versus donald trump general election campaign with a bang and

there's only been three closed primaries for the democrats. a, florida, louisiana, bernie sanders. >> and nobody new york -- >> this is the biggest fight in new york since jerry brown lost to bill clinton in '92. >> of the 17 upcoming contests, nine are closed primaries, including four out of the five biggest by delegate count. >>down, it's interesting to watch the ark of this campaign, the contour of it, you know? so bernie has a run and eight last night, including democrats abroad. this reminds me of early campaigns, like ted kennedy against jimmy carter. or barack obama against hillary. you have this long period and you think one guy's going down. oh, all of a sudden, he starts winning. it's like a roller coaster ride. >> absolutely. >> so we're into a high coming for donald trump and hillary. they seem to be running parallel, by the way. >> they are. and in the case of clinton, she knows these rules. i think her team knew this was probably going to happen with sanders. that a lot of his supporters would not have signed up. she thinks intric

now to our coverage of decision 2016 starting with the hard-fought democratic primary for retiring senatorra mikulski's seat in the senate. democrat chris van hollen beat out rival donna edwards and eight other challengers last night. argoing to go forth from this evening and win the general election! and we're going to be part of a new democratic majority in the united states senate. >> maryland is on the verge of having an all male delegation. when will our voices be effective legitimate equal leaders in a big ten party? >> van hollen will take on kathy szeliga in the general election. >>> and the two key congressional elections in our area starting in the eight direction, jamie raskin will try to take the seat representative van hollen held since 2003. the race for the eighth congressional district was the most expensive house primary this election season. he will face dan cox in the general election. and anthony brown won the democratic primary in the fourth district. now with 99% of precincts reporting. he will be the winner of the republican nomination. >>> donald trump swept the rep

the associated press has winner of the democratic primary over prince george's humor state's attorney lynn ivy. 42% of the vote for brown and 35% for ivy. our allison barber is in largo. >> former lieutenant governor anthony brown gave a big rousing victory speech. he is here with me now and tell me how you feel about this win and did you think it was going to happen? how do you feel? >> i'm grateful and outstanding supporters and volunteers. i knew the report was there and division of how we can strengthen communities and for the 4th congressional district. i'm excited and grateful and i want to thank lynn ivy solid strong campaign. i know and i spoke that we will come together as democrats to make sure that the 4th congressional district is well represented and we are working as hard as we can and i'm working as hard as i can for families and small business owners of the 4th congressional district and i am grateful for the voters for giving me opportunity to go to the general election. >> and you talked about it in your speech but this is a solid blue district and don't want to take

this was at a time when the democratic primary was paramount to election in alabama. for your congressional district in the first primary. if you received the nomination, then all nine names went on the ballot one month later. eight votes and they could drop one. mr. elliott survived in 1962. but in 1964, george wallace had become governor, and carl elliott was targeted because of stance.ressive a ballot was circulated all over the state. ," know it as the "blue ballot and it had a list of eight ended its, but not mr. elliott. the message was to drop carl elliott. so he was seated in that crazy 9-8 primary. he began practicing law after he was defeated. in 1956, he ran for governor in the democratic primary against governor wallace's wife. withs a campaign fraught race, as you may imagine. one of his lines that he would give over and over was they will tell you that i am u.s. government approved, but they are wrong. it is not stamped on my back. what is stamped is on my heart. and that is my country, right or wrong. was mrs. wallace appealing to all of the segregation

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somehow bill clinton survived it all and when he won the new york democratic primary on april 7th, 1992nation was basically his and you know what happened from there. that was 24 years ago and now the democratic race is back in the spotlight with a clinton trying to fight off a ferocious challenger. we'll be watching the new york race now just days away. ndrone? can't blame you. it's a drone you control with your brain, which controls your thumbs, which control this joystick. no, i'm actually over at the ge booth. we're creating the operating system for industry. it's called predix. it's gonna change the way the world works. ok, i'm telling my brain to tell the drone to get you a copy of my resume. umm, maybe keep your hands on the controller. look out!! ohhhhhhhhhh... you know what, i'm just gonna email it to you. yeah that's probably safer. ok, cool. >>psst. hey... where you going? we've got that thing! you know...diarrhea? abdominal pain? but we said we'd be there... woap, who makes the decisions ound here? it's me. don't think i'll make it. stomach again...send! if you're living wit

in some years you see republicans voting democratic primaries are democrats voting in republican primariestrouble. they are so focused on their own camps that there will not be a whole lot of that. i think if there is high turnout, sanders will win. is being given a z.n for his money by cru the only issue in wisconsin is -- new voter id law, whether students had to get a special form of id to vote, and some do not know that yet. john: thanks for joining us. always a pleasure. we you come back and take over hosting the show? a roadie selling grilled cheese out of the back of my car. it is american cheese. it melts better. john: up next, for the day, after these words from our sponsors. ♪ mark: john, who won the day? john: i would say john kasich won the day, and i will tell you why. roger stone said he was more likely to be the nominee than ted cruz. +++ uncontrollably into the truth. john: for story about hillary clinton's frustrations with bernie sanders. coming up, italy chang sits down to review the wisconsin primary. until then, we say sayonara. ♪ from a law firm say hsbc was one the m

democrats. this is a closed primary. only registered democrats could vote for the democratic candidates. only registered republicans can vote for the republican candidates. a lot of bernie sanders supporters out there and i'm sure you have spoken, brynn, with everyone. they feel left out. >> reporter: that's true. that shows the excitement around this particular election. you can't come in unless you're registered democrat or republican and, of course, you have to vote for your party but i will say when people do come and don't have either affiliation and don't know what to do, the nice people are handing them affidavits to the board of election. their vote is mattering. we're not sure if it's counted or sort of the process after that but certainly people are trying to figure that all out but it's important to still come out and vote. of course, wolf. >> brynn is our new cnn reporter. good to have you on our team. thanks very much. donald trump is counting on a big win today in his home state to change the conversation. his campaign knows that the path to 1237 delegates. that's the magic

it was a bad night in the democratic primary and it was an even worse night for her in the republicanbecause we're uniting the republican party. of the 17 candidates who started this race, a terrific, talented, dynamic field, five have now endorsed this campaign. [ cheers and applause ] >> rick perry and jeb bush and carly fiorina and wisconsin's own governor scott walker, lindsey graham. when you toss in senator mike lee and mark levin, we've got the full spectrum of the republican party coming together and uniting behind this campaign. in 1960 accepting the democratic party's nomination, john f. kennedy observed "i think the american people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. the times are too grave, the challenge too urgent and the stakes too high to commit the customary passions of political debate. we are not here to curse the darkness but to light the candle that can guide us to see through that darkness to a safe and sane future." as winston churchill said on taking office, "if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of lo

took a shot at sanders the goal is to make sure there say democrat in the white house next january. and the stateses are using a closed primary where only democrats can vote. is especially challenging for sanders. >> a bad night tonight, following the 16 point defeat in new york last year could prove devastating for his campaign. late today hillary clinton forged ahead in hammond, indiana campaigning there before the primary next week. she was at the munster steel company telling workers that the steel industry survival is one of her top priorities as president. i'm dann cuellar, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> the republican presidential candidates are all campaigning out of state today. donald trump will watch the primary election returns tonight in new york city. ted cruz and john kasich are already in indiana and you should remember the pennsylvania primary is different than most because most of the delegates are unbound. they can vote for whenever candidate they would like at is the cleveland convention. >> "action news" reporter walter perez is live at a polling place in ardmore, montgomery county. what about

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. >>> it is a done deal -- bernie sanders is back on the democratic primary ballot in d.c. news4 was first to report that sanders was in jeopardy of not being on that ballot because of a clerical error. as mark segraves tells us fixing that issue didn't happen without some debate. mark? >> like most things here at the d.c. council, wendy, yes, that's right there are two ways for presidential candidates to get on the democratic primary ballot. they can do it the old fashioned way and collect petitionings signatures or they can pay the party a check, $2500. clinton did both, sanders opted just to payhe party filed their paperwork late, according to the board of elections, sanders risked missing the democratic primary here. >> all those in favor say aye? >> with that vote, senator bernie sanders setback on the d.c. primary ballot. >> i think this is about voter access to all of the presidential candidates. >> sanders campaign followed all the rules and paid the $2500 fee to appear on the ballot. but the d.c. democratic state party did not file the paperwork on behalf of the ca

a new poll out shows chris van holland holds a double digit lead over donna edwards in the democratic primaryme poll shows hillary clinton with a commanding 25 point lead over bernie sanders in the maryland democratic primary with 57 to 32%. we asked the candidates leading in the polls to come to wusa 9 to discuss the issues important to you. tonight republican chris will be on set with us at 7:00. if you have a question to ask, send it to us via wusa 9 facebook and twitter pages. >>> president barack obama wrapped up a trip to saudi arabia today. he met with leaders from six persian gulf nations. the white house said they agreed to various security initiatives all designed defeat isis and counter irans actions. >> even withed nuclear deal we recognize collectively that we continue to have serious concerns about iranian behavior. >> president obama met with king solomon to address suspicion about u.s. intention behind the deal. the president said the deal could not have happened without support from arab allies and that it makes the area safer. >>> a deadly collapse in rio ahead of the super

chris, lauren, back to you. >> talking politics, bernie sanders won the democratic primary finishing ahead of him hill in wisconsin. >> for the republican senator ted cruz is the winner pulling out ahead of done add trump. cruz hoping to slow down the frontrunner's momentum. he got what he wished for, now all eyes are on new york where vote letters hit the polls there april 19th. >> bernie sanders coming off his primary win of which is con isn't is coming later today. >> so is his rival, hillary clinton, two going head-to-head in fill toy win over voters. dave kinchen now live at the sheraton in center city, the location every clinton's event today we understand, dave? >> that's right, later this morning, hillary clinton will be here, one of the two candidates of course trying to bring the presidential nomination contest on the democratic side, eventually to a close, and bring the campaigns through the city of brotherly love. today hillary clinton will address the pennsylvania afl-cio convention at 11:15 this morning here at the sheraton hotel in center city. secretary clinic toast's

house. >> tonight was a bad night for hillary clinton. [ cheers ] >> it was a bad night in the democratic primaryit was an even worse night for her in the republican primary. [ cheers and applause ] we are winning because we're uniting the republican party. >> reporter: the cruz campaign claims the latest victory will propel him to win future state contests and cause trump to fall short of the candidates needed to win the nomination before the july republican convention. it's a convention where cruz hopes to become the party nominee to take on democratic front runner, hillary clinton. but the path to her party's presidential nomination has also become more complicated. bernie sanders was the winner of the democratic contest in the midwestern state. >> with our victory tonight in wisconsin, we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries. [ cheers and applause ] >> and we have won almost all of them with overwhelming landslide numbers. [ cheers and applause ] >> sanders says his grassroots support will propel him to win bigger, up coming contests. but the maths favor clinton.

further if he can get big victories in new york, in pennsylvania, and in california, the final democratic primarytate. so again, bernie sanders has now won 7 of the last 8 democratic contests. it gives him some psychological momentum, exposes perhaps some weaknesses in hillary clinton's candidacy and makes it more difficult for her to get to the imagine number she needs to get to the nomination before the convention. so good nights for the challengers. bernie sanders in the democratic race and ted cruz among the republicans. >> it really is beginning to look like he could stop her. >> he could. he's got to win again, 57, 43, 56, 44, in places like new york and pennsylvania. >> tough? >> but again, a lot of people would have suggested that kind of split we are seeing in wisconsin tonight would have been impossible just three weeks ago when bernie sanders was down like 20 points. he closed a 20 point deficit in three weeks will probably end up weishar winning by 5 to 7. >> augurs some optimism. people say what about wyoming? there is a wyoming caucus he will win 80 to 20. that's two weeks to wait u

democrats. this was the most expensive house primary in this election season.in 2003. >> and former lieutenant governor anthony brown wins the democratic primary in the fourth congressional district. donna edwards held that seat back in 2008. >>> more decision 2016 coverage in just a minute. first, some breaking news again with weather and traffic on the 1s as we approach 4:31. >>> so right now southbound rockville pike is closed at cedar lane. only one northbound lane getting by. sorry, had to push somebody out of the way here to get on camera. you can only turn right from cedar lane onto rockville pike in either direction this morning. we have to have fun here this

werner grabbed 52% of the vote in the democratic primary. and in the seventh district, it's too close to call with jonathan goff >>> a baltimore judge ordered several polling places to stay open because they did not open on time. on top of that, a fire at the courthouse during a hearing to extend the hours set the decision back later. if you are running out the door, don't forget the nbc washington app can be a great resource when on the go. you'll find all yesterday's primary results and nbc news analysis on our political page. >>> 4:33 now. today former virginia governor bob mcdonanell will try to clea his name and stay out of prison. this is in his corruption conviction. mcdonnell and his wife were convicted of doing favors for a virginia businessman for exchange of gifts and loans. mcdonnell's attorneys say the bribery law is arguments are set for ddlet of center hill street in wheaton randolph road. the victim was taken to the hospital in serious condition. >>> and a man who authorities say fled a robbery scene and jumped over a fence n

the democratic primary is a three-person race between former lieutenant governor, anthony brown. state's attorney glen ivy. and state delegate, josephine pena melnick. >>> and businessman david thrown put more than $12 million of his own money into today's democratic primary. thrown is in a crowded field. >>> we could see a record turnout for today's maryland local polling places report a steady flow of voters. we only know of one polling place that had an issue that was rocking horse road center in rockville. 15 to 20 voters were turned away after two ballot-scanning machines malfunctioned. >> when i went to have my ballot scanned, they said, the person in front of me, her ballot jammed. and the scanner was out of service. apparently, there was a second scanner. but that was also out of service. so even their backup plans didn't work. >> election officials tell us that after 10 minutes of anxiety, is that problem was fixed. they say half the voters who were turned away promised to come back to cast ballots later in the day. we can only hope that no race is decided by the few vot

some of the hottest act on the democratic side us senate race in pennsylvania the democratic primary shows katie mcginty with party backing. joe sestak hopes that crash that party and we'll zoo fit happens. the polls certainly suggest it's a possibility. in pennsylvania's second congressional district, that's the good chunk of philadelphia, the em balanced incumbent is chaka fattah, of course, hip deep in federal corruption probe. he faces several challengers chief among the long-time state rep dwight evans, and for pence attorney general on the democratic primary side, things have gotten pretty nasty between josh shapiro montgomery county commissioner facing off against the long-time dick district attorney stephen is a balance pal la. john morganelli also in that race that could be three way contest things have gotten nasty in that race with some of the local democrats choosing up sides. lucy as you mentioned polls open till 8:00 o'clock tonight here at the old first reform church near fourth and race. it's been a steady stream of voters. gotten little more steady since work let out

since the beginning of the democratic primary, hillary clinton has raised millions of dollars not justor her own campaign but also for the democratic party and for state democratic parties. she's been trying to not build up only her own effort but the democratic party's strength overall. national democratic party and more than 30 state parties. that's hillary clinton. bernie sanders, on the other side, he has raised a bunch of money for his campaign. 20 million in 16 alone for his own campaign. before today he had not raised money for the democratic party. not through this primary process. today sanders picked three do nations that is new today. these are exciting days in politics. today was exciting in politics. tomorrow night looks like it these are exciting days in politics. today was exciting in politics. tomorrow night looks like it will be more exciting in politics. we'll be right back. stay with us. >>> i want to show you something that's been happening tonight in new york city and continues to be happening right now. take a look at this. this is bernie sanders rally in new york

vote in the democratic primary, april 26th.inty: i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message. >>> i'm danny pommells. when a day for the villanova wildcats. hours after binning of the best college basketball games of all time, they returned home in style. here's john clark. >> thousands of villanova fans lined up here awaiting the team returning home first national champions for villanova in 31 years. >> let's go, cats! whoo! >> they got a hero's welcome arriving back in philly and then a police escort all the way back to campus, people were pulling over on the sides of the road and taking pictures of them. it was wild. >> great feeling. just looking outside. seeing a lot of nova fans, people pulling over, beeping their horn. and everything, it's unbelievable feeling. >> when i saw them shut down 95, you know what that means in philly at 6:00. people are not happy about this. >> kind of crazy people were pulling over on the side of the road and getting out to take photos of the bus just driving by and it's pretty surreal. >> h

vote in the democratic primary, april 26th. mcginty: i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message. >>> the motive behind a murder of a former pro football player remains a mystery. investigators are trying to figure out why the saints defensive end was gunned down on the streets in new orleans over the weekend. there is a possible link between the victim and the suspect. >> reporter: a community saddened by the form he were new orleans' saints player will smith continue to play tribute calling his death a loss to the city. >>> we're a community a family. will smith made us feel about after katrina. >> reporter: smith helped the saints win their only super bowl in 2010. on saturday, the 34-year-old was shot a and killed. >>> i heard pop pop pop. >> reporter: cardell hails killed smith in a -- cardell hayes killed smith in a road rage incident. what started as an argument ended with hayes opening fire killing smith and injuring his wife. >>> we do not know that they knew one another. >> reporter: but they appear to share an odd c

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>> because if you're a democrat, you can't vote republican. >> reporter: it's a closed primary? es. >> so what are they saying? >> they're saying we want to vote for trump, and we say, you can't, you're a democrat. they say, we're not voting for anyone. so they put in a void ballot. >> reporter: that's really interesting here in new york, especially if donald trump wants to walk out of here with the entire slate of delegates, versus 70, 80, in the 60 range, and it could be critical to his success or failure, or i guess limited success as you were saying earlier, here in new york tonight. >> well, it's a big reminder that these are closed primaries on both sides. tougher for sanders, tougher for trump, if you look at previous patterns. jacob -- tony in queens, thanks so much. let's go to western new york and buffalo, with tony dokoupil. upstate, we expect trump to do well, but we also expect sanders, that this could be where he does -- where he's able to win some congressional districts in either western new york or upstate new york. what are you seeing. >> reporter: that's right.

not surprising, she lost the democratic primary in wisconsin. ted cruz won the republican primary in wisconsin and his number is lower than hers. his excitement number is the lowest. only 13% in a state he won! he won! so these people are optimistic but -- >> that state is probably still upset that their governor, who actually was running for president, isn't on the ballot. it really does go to show that you have all of these people who have kind of rallied behind ted cruz extremely reluctantly because there were a lot of other candidates that perhaps they preferred but cruz and john kasich are the only ones left standing who are not trump. >> we saw how difficult it would be for donald trump to be assure of the nomination on that first ballot. what about bernie sanders? he had a big win tonight. how difficult of a challenge would he have to get the democratic nomination? we're going to assess that right after this. we danced in a german dance group. i wore lederhosen.man. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn't finding

for the april 26th democratic primary, president obama supports katie mcginty. katie: i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message, because it's your turn to get ahead. >>> i could have driven there in the four hours i'm waiting here. >> that's a mother's anger boiling over at new york's laguardia airport. the newly discovered cell phone video shows the woman unleashing the fury. it's all over a 12-hour flight delay that ruined the family's vacation last month. they were trying to fly from laguardia to miami but their jet was diverted here to philadelphia because of high winds. police were called in to calm things down. >>> no screaming but a woman stranded in the arizona wilderness for nine days found a creative way to get the attention of rescuers. 72-year-old ann rogers gathered twigs and branches to spell help there for passing helicopters. rogers car ran out of gas on an indian reservation on march 31st. thanks to her sign she was rescued on saturday. she's expected to be okay. >>> fighting the cycle of addiction. today nbc 10 brought awareness to the drug

he decided to run in democratic primary which is rigged towards the establish the. 0s democratic party became more democratic in that primaries have lot more power than they did before the '70s. but they don't want to give up all the party to the people or power to the people. still have these party establishments who get to vote for whoever they want no matter how the voters vote in their districts or in their state. they are going to hold it. >> david axelrod played down any sense of contention between the two candidates. lot of people spent time how tough the battle is, push and pull between bernie sanders and certainly seems irritated. in my conversation with him what is your sense wherever the democratic race is now how much -- damage could be created between now and convention? >> a lot. in terms of the superdelegates it cuts both ways. there are so many superdelegates it's basically very possible that bernie sanders can present hillary clinton from getting absolute majority, the magic number, without any superdelegates. at which point he said that his campaign

meanwhile, most democratic primary voters yesterday said that both sanders and clinton are honest and trustworthy. 81% for sander, 60% for clinton. >>> in a continuing pattern in the gop contest this year, gred's republican -- yesterday's republican primary set a record for turnout besting the 2008 record by nearly 200,000 votes. however, the democrats appear to have fallen short of beating their record and hillary clinton has received fewer votes than she did that year. but clinton's vote total doubled donald trump's yesterday and they finished 200,000 votes behind bernie sanders which might cast doubt he can win in the general election. democrats have a two to one advantage over the republicans. >>> meanwhile t sanders campaign is crying foul after widespread complaints about faulty voting machines to inadequate staffing to purged voter rolls. they released a statement that read, from long lines and dramatic understaffing to long time voters being forced to cast provisional ballots and thousands of registered new yorkers being dropped from the rolls, what's happening today is a disg

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he was talking about the democratic primary. what is your feeling on that?u know, one can argue -- there are people who say why does iowa go first? why does new hampshire go first? i think that having so many southern states go first it distorts reality as well. >> larry: yeah. here's the way i like to -- let me explain it in cards. let's imagine these cards are the voters. right? now, bernie, you're doing well. you win the primary vote, and you've got like it looks like 10 delegates, right? that's what it looks like right? >> yeah. larry: then that democratic primary comes in and bam that's what it feels like. [ laughter ] right? [ cheers and applause ] exactly. >> but larry, one of the points that i do want to make. >> larry: yeah. we have taken on the whole establishment in state after state we're running against the senators, and the governors and members the congress. but what's happening is ordinary people are standing up and they're saying, you know what? maybe it's a little bit too late for establishment politics. we have to take on big money interes

democratic primary even to the democratic primary in 2008.rimary. >> this is what i don't get is that who gets to be on the nomination for the democratic nomination -- the nomination of the democratic party? you don't have to be a democrat. that's the lesson. you don't. he makes -- he has never even said he was one. >> donald trump is barely even a republican. >> at least he is registered as one. >> that's true. >> and at least he says/m that he has quote evolved. i mean, bernie sanders, the senator says -- he doesn't want to be one. >> that's his appeal, i think. >> his appeal to what? >> people are sick of politicians that check the boxes. >> i get that but you would think then he would run as an independent. instead, the democratic party embraced him. that's the problem. and now they have created a problem for their lead candidate. >> they also under estimated him, right? no one thought that bernie sanders was going to be the force that he is. >> no one thought senator barack obama in 2008. maybe the democrat peak party. maybe the clinton

representative chris van hollen won a tight race in the democratic primary for the u-s senate, beatingepresentative donna edwards. van hollen is attempting to fill the seat vacated by retiring senator barbara mikulski. and in maryland's 8th congressional district-- state senator jamie raskin beat out 8 other challengers to win the democratic primary. among them-- were fomer news anchor kathleen matthews and businessman davin trone, who personally spent 12 million do anyone has ever spent on a self-funded house campaign. we'll have more highlights, and reaction from the candidates as they approach the general election, coming up. in the day ahead. maryland health officials will hold a panel on the zika virus at the universities at shady grove. the speakers will discuss the history, transmission, and prevention methods associated with the virus that doctors say causes birth defects in humans. university of maryland, college park professors are expected to take part. the event begins this afternoon at 5 o'clock. it's xx and we're just getting started. fiery talk in victory speeches during

all the others are closed primaries meaning only democrats can cast a ballot for clinton or sanders, and here in rhode island, where there is a greater proportion of unaffiliated or independent voters, more than half, this state allows on primary day for a voter to decide to affiliate in order to vote in one primary or the other. so there's an opportunity here for bernie sanders, who tends to draw more from the independent voters. that's been a good base for him. so hillary clinton doesn't want to leave this territory unsort of matched by being here in person and you described it as you introduced our segment as an organizing event. that's one of the terms of art used in politics. there are rallies, get out the vote, and these are organizing. she will later this afternoon try to get people who will help to get others to go to the polls, get the word out, and because she tends to draw smaller crowds comparatively to bernie sanders, she can make it a bit more of an event where she's trying to engage the community to help her cause. in addition to hitting all the points i'm sure she will

here it comes. >> it is much less diverse than most of the states we compete in, in democratic primaries. it's got a lower population of african-americans, a very small population of latinos. we've gun done very well in building a diverse coalition, which is why we have won far more primary elections than senator sanders has, and combiled a bigger delegate lead by a lot. the key is to compete hard, try to win the state. either way the state comes out, it's close enough there isn't going to be a big shift in the 230 or plus pledged delegate advantage that hillary clinton has right now. >> well, a win here in wisconsin would extend sanders victories to 6 out of the last 7 contests and propel him to new york's primary on april 19th in the top of this game. msnbc correspondent kasie hunt is covering bernie sanders right now, and there is a rally in milwaukee right now. patrick healy is a "new york times" correspondent covering the campaign as well, and here with me in milwaukee is u.s. congresswoman gwen moore. she's from this area of milwaukee and she's supporting hillary clinton. >> kasie,

vote in the democratic primary, april 26th. mcginty: i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message. >>> welcome back, checking more sports, first time winner at the masters in august cuss that, first repeat champion since tiger woods in 2002. but spieth's quadruple bogey the par 12th home that did him in. he hits his ball in the water second, finished second. the willet, the second english man to bring home the green jacket. >> talking major shake up in the front office. the team announced brian co-angelo as the new president of basketball operations, replacing sam hinkie, who resigned last week. co-angelo's father jerry quit as team chairman, will serve as advisors to josh harris. the sixers lost to the bucks last night, have ten wings on the season. this dough have a chance to win number 11 tomorrow night in toronto. >> sixers honored hafer town native crawford before last night's game. officiating more than 2500 regular season games. he's now retired, but you know, crawford worked more nnba finals game than any current offici

primary. if you're not a registered democrat, not a registered republican, you can't vote. ith independent independents who can't vote. >> he won many independents and he has lost to closed primaries on the democratic side. one thing to keep in mind that's kind of astounding, for you to be able to vote in the democratic primary here in new york, you would have had to change your party registration from independent to republican to democrat by october 9 of last year. that's six months ago. you think of everything that's changed between october 9 and now, bernie sanders has a lot of supporters who probably wish they could vote for him in the state but didn't change their party registration in time. >> it's fascinating to see how it really is different in each state, not just in terms of a close primary but in terms of when you need to make that decision. how is the campaign planning to reach out? we heard kasie hunt saying she's checking in with people at the rally to see if they had actually registered to vote. some had, but how are they handling that outreach with only a mon

not sure 2016 is the year that you want to be the establishment candidate, even within the democratic primary>> because of what's happening higher up the ticket, of course. >> the public is upset. >> right. >> that's why bernie sanders has done so well in so many states and in pennsylvania. while he probably won't win pennsylvania, he'll be north of 40% in the state because that's how people are feeling. and in the senate race, john fetterman -- this guy is really interesting. i'd read an article this week by john baer in which fetterman is quoted as saying, "if 30 years ago we had fought a war on addiction versus a war on drugs, where would we be today?" i thought that was really insightful, because he's attacking the demand for drugs... >> right. >> ...not the issue of supply. >> right. and it certainly people's viewpoints have changed on addiction and drugs, it would seem. >> some of his web ads are really thought-provoking and great. he doesn't have the money to get them across the state, but they're on the web and i encourage people to look at them. they're very, very thought provoking.

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