--- title: Bernie Sanders Not Dropping Out Over Hillary Clinton's Lead description: Bernie Sanders isn't going anywhere, despite Hillary Clinton's prohibitive delegate lead, and Tuesday night offers a hint why canonical: https://time.com/4272964/bernie-sanders-not-dropping-out-hillary-clinton/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-26T14:47:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:14:38.510Z article:section: Politics og:title: Why Bernie Sanders Isn't Dropping Out og:description: Sanders is hoping Saturday's voting contests will be a boost og:url: https://time.com/4272964/bernie-sanders-not-dropping-out-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2cec1e66e01747e/69888ca33c1639130f45c98e/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Miami og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Bernie Sanders Isn't Dropping Out twitter:description: Sanders is hoping Saturday's voting contests will be a boost twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2cec1e66e01747e/69888ca33c1639130f45c98e/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Bernie Sanders Isn't Dropping Out by [Alex Seitz-Wald/NBC](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Alex Seitz-Wald/NBC Mar 26, 2016 2:47 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shake hands on stage before the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate on March 9 in Miami, Fla. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shake hands on stage before the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate on March 9 in Miami, Fla.Joe Raedle/Getty Images by [Alex Seitz-Wald/NBC](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Alex Seitz-Wald/NBC Mar 26, 2016 2:47 PM UTC Bernie Sanders isn’t going anywhere, despite Hillary Clinton’s prohibitive delegate lead, and Tuesday night offers a hint why. But the underdog’s path forward carries risks as well as challenges. Even though Sanders [came up short in Arizona](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-wins-overshadowed-arizona-loss), where his campaign invested most heavily, the Vermont senator ended up netting 17 delegates over Clinton Tuesday, thanks to lopsided wins in the Idaho and Utah caucuses. He ended up taking away a tidy 57 percent of the pledged delegates up for grabs that day. And as it happens, 58 is the percentage of outstanding pledged delegates Sanders needs to win from now on in order… [Read the rest of the story at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-bernie-sanders-isn-t-dropping-out-despite-hillary-s-n545646). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4272964/bernie-sanders-not-dropping-out-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4272964/bernie-sanders-not-dropping-out-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"Why Bernie Sanders Isn't Dropping Out","datePublished":"2016-03-26T14:47:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:14:38.510Z","description":"Sanders is hoping Saturday's voting contests will be a boost","url":"https://time.com/4272964/bernie-sanders-not-dropping-out-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2cec1e66e01747e/69888ca33c1639130f45c98e/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Seitz-Wald/NBC"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2cec1e66e01747e/69888ca33c1639130f45c98e/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Miami","caption":"Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Miami","creditText":"Joe Raedle/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4272964/bernie-sanders-not-dropping-out-hillary-clinton/","name":"Why Bernie Sanders Isn't Dropping Out"}}]}] ```