Obama blames Clinton attacks for losses

Barack Obama blamed fierce attacks by rival Hillary Clinton for his defeats in big Democratic primaries, and quickly made good on a promise to sharpen his criticism of her in what promised to be a drawn-out White House brawl.

Mrs Clinton declared Wednesday that her primary victories a day earlier in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, which resuscitated her campaign, had reordered the Democratic presidential race in her favour and given her the momentum to take the party’s presidential nomination.