02:43USA: Sanders celebrates victory in Vermont primary
Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders celebrated his victory in the Vermont primary at a rally in Essex Junction, Tuesday.
"It does say something and means so much to me that the people who know me best, the people who knew me before I was elected, knew me as mayor, knew me as congressman, and know me as senator have voted so strongly to put us in the White House. Thank you so much," Sanders told his supporters.
"Tonight you're gonna see a lot of election results come in and let me remind you of what the media often forgets about: This is not a general election, it's not winner-takes-all. If you get 52 percent, you get 48 percent, you roughly end up with the same amount of delegates in a state. By the end of tonight we are going to win many hundreds of delegates," he added.
Discussing the rest of his campaign, Sanders said: "At the end of tonight 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain. And let me assure you, that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace, to every one of those states."
On Tuesday, Democratic voters in 11 states chose their preferred candidate for their party's nomination in the 2016 US presidential election in what is known as 'Super Tuesday.' Sanders has already picked up key victories in Vermont and Oklahoma, while his rival Hillary Clinton has been declared the victor in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, as well as American Samoa. Voting is still ongoing in Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
02:43Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders celebrated his victory in the Vermont primary at a rally in Essex Junction, Tuesday.
"It does say something and means so much to me that the people who know me best, the people who knew me before I was elected, knew me as mayor, knew me as congressman, and know me as senator have voted so strongly to put us in the White House. Thank you so much," Sanders told his supporters.
"Tonight you're gonna see a lot of election results come in and let me remind you of what the media often forgets about: This is not a general election, it's not winner-takes-all. If you get 52 percent, you get 48 percent, you roughly end up with the same amount of delegates in a state. By the end of tonight we are going to win many hundreds of delegates," he added.
Discussing the rest of his campaign, Sanders said: "At the end of tonight 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain. And let me assure you, that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace, to every one of those states."
On Tuesday, Democratic voters in 11 states chose their preferred candidate for their party's nomination in the 2016 US presidential election in what is known as 'Super Tuesday.' Sanders has already picked up key victories in Vermont and Oklahoma, while his rival Hillary Clinton has been declared the victor in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, as well as American Samoa. Voting is still ongoing in Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota.