Updated 7:28 PM ET, Sat April 9, 2016
"News bulletin: We just won Wyoming," Sanders said as the room exploded into cheers.
Sanders
won 55.7% of the vote to Clinton's 44.3%, giving each candidate seven
delegates. That helps Clinton maintain her pledged delegate lead over
Sanders, 1,304 to 1,075.
A
Clinton campaign aide said their "secret sauce" in Wyoming was the
state's onerous vote-by-mail rules that required anyone voting by mail
to have voted as a Democrat in the 2014 midterms.
"This
is exactly the type of contest he needed to shut us out in," the aide
said. "Not only did he not do that, he only netted two delegates, if
that."
With 55% of remaining
delegates in New York, Pennsylvania and California, one senior aide said
"by the time we get to California, we will only need to meet threshold
to win. He can win 85% and we're fine."
Sanders is banking on 
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