Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary by a substantial margin Sunday, NBC News projected. But Clinton’s newly defiant campaign against her own party leaders may have been blunted by low turnout in the island territory while her rival edged ever closer to the nomination.Puerto Rico, once a political asterisk in presidential contests, was seen as Clinton’s last best electoral chance as she tries to build a case that she has won more actual votes during the primary season than her rival, Sen.
Barack Obama.
Clinton’s campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, pushed that case strongly Sunday in an argument directed at unpledged party officials known as superdelegates.
“She continues to win these primaries. It’s extraordinary,” McAuliffe said in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “She keeps running it up, and I think it shows Hillary’s strength for the fall.”
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