Clinton wins Kentucky, Sanders takes Oregon
Hillary Clinton will squeeze out a cliffhanger victory over Bernie Sanders in Kentucky's Democratic primary Tuesday, CNN projects, a result that keeps her on track to win the nomination but also highlights deep divisions in the party.
Clinton won the state by half a percentage point with nearly all the votes counted. She declared victory after Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "based on what we are seeing coming in, ... Kentucky will remain in a win column for the Clintons."
The Kentucky secretary of state's office told CNN that with all precincts reporting, Clinton held a 1,923-vote lead over Sanders.
Sanders, meanwhile, will win the Oregon Democratic primary, according to a CNN projection. Speaking in Carson, California, he noted his strength in Kentucky, a state where Clinton soundly beat then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008 and celebrated that he would still win a sizable chunk of delegates.
"It appears tonight we're going to end up with about half of the delegates," he said. "This is in a sense the beginning of the final push to win California."
Despite calls for him to drop out, Sanders insisted he would stay in the race until "the last ballot is cast."
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