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Hillary Clinton

yallerdawg

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4. Clinton sweeps in Virgin Islands, moves closer to nomination

Reply to Her Sister (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 5, 2016, 12:06 PM

Jun 2016

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton scored a sweeping win in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, picking up all seven pledged delegates at stake as she inched tantalizingly close to the Democratic nomination.

She is now just 60 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to advance to the November general election.

The party said Clinton won 84.2 percent of the vote, while Bernie Sanders earned 12.2 percent. Under Democratic National Committee rules, a candidate must win at least 15 percent of the vote to be eligible to receive delegates.

It was almost as big a margin as Barack Obama had in 2008, when he beat Clinton by 90 percent to 8 percent.

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