SENATE PRIMARY
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who identifies as a Democratic-socialist, won Vermont’s Democratic Senate primary by a landslide Tuesday evening. Sanders's margin of victory was so high that he won more than twice as many votes as all Republican primary candidates combined.
With 99 percent of Vermont precincts reporting, Sanders took 94.4 percent of all Democratic votes, with his opponent, Folasade Adeluola, receiving just 5.6 percent. The 2016 presidential hopeful garnered 63,474 votes compared to the 24,755 votes that all Republican candidates running for Senate won in their primary combined.
Sanders, however, will decline the Democratic nomination and instead run as an independent in the general election as he has done in his previous campaigns for Senate.
The Vermont Democratic Party is fine with this practice, spokesman Christopher Di Mezzo said in an email to the Huffington Post. “The Vermont Democratic Party has a strong, productive and close relationship with Senator Sanders,” he wrote. “We are proud of his role as a leader in the US Senate Democratic Caucus, and as a powerful voice for Democratic values, issues and candidates.”
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https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-vermont-primary-votes-republicans-1074201