<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: none; color: inherit; padding: inherit; margin: inherit;" class=""><div id="article" role="article" style="border-bottom-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="page"><h1 class="title" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Georgia" class="">Media Unimpressed as Sanders Barely Gets Seventy Per Cent of Vote</font></h1><figure class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><figcaption itemprop="description" style="font-style: italic;" class=""><font face="Georgia" class=""><br class=""></font></figcaption></figure><font face="Georgia" class=""><a name="/2" data-total-words="0" class=""></a><a name="/1" data-total-words="0" class=""></a></font><p word_count="32" data-wc="32" class=""><font face="Georgia" class=""><b class="">NEW YORK</b> —Bernie Sanders failed to impress major media outlets over the weekend as he barely managed to win seventy per cent of the vote in three western primaries.</font></p><p word_count="29" data-wc="29" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">The major cable networks briefly mentioned Sanders’s vote tallies in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii but noted that he ran out of steam well shy of eighty per cent.</font></p><p word_count="15" data-wc="15" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">“There’s no point in sugarcoating it,” one analyst put it. “Rough night for Sanders.”</font></p><p word_count="25" data-wc="25" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">According to one cable executive, Sanders needs to “put up some big numbers fast” if he expects the networks to continue giving his campaign airtime.</font></p><p word_count="24" data-wc="24" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">“It’s going to be harder and harder to justify covering him while he’s stuck down in the seventy-per-cent range,” the executive said.</font></p><p word_count="29" data-wc="29" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">While Sanders campaign officials remain optimistic about the upcoming primary in Wisconsin, media outlets are calling it a “do or die” state after his sputtering finishes over the weekend.</font></p><p word_count="39" data-wc="39" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">“I think if he limps across the finish line with, say, seventy-five or seventy-nine per cent, it’s going to be time for him to reassess things,” one cable representative said. “That would have to be a wake-up call.”</font></p><p word_count="28" data-wc="28" class=""><font face="Georgia" class="">A spokesperson for CNN could not be reached for comment, as the network was busy preparing a ninety-minute special on the birth of Donald Trump’s new grandchild.</font></p><aside class=""></aside></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div role="article" style="border-bottom-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="page"><p word_count="28" data-wc="28" class=""><font face="Georgia" class=""><br class=""></font></p></div></div></div></body></html>