The Primaries: The Story So Far

As voters go to the polls in the next round of primaries today—most importantly, in Ohio and Florida—a brief recap: almost a year ago, on April 12, 2015, Hillary Clinton announced that she was seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination and became the immediate favorite. She remained unopposed for about two weeks, at which point the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that he, too, was a candidate. In August, Sanders and Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, who had announced in late May, suggested that the Democratic National Committee was, to use one of Sanders’s favorite words, “rigging” the contest by limiting the number of debates to six (with four to be held before the early primaries), and in that way helping the better-known Clinton lock in her front-runner status.

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