Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was projected to win the Massachusetts primary on Tuesday, according to MSNBC and ABC News.
The Democratic race was much tighter than the state’s Republican primary, in which Donald Trump was projected to be the victor shortly after polls closed. TPM’s PollTracker Average showed Clinton leading in the Bay State with 50 percent of votes and rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with 45 percent of the votes.
Early reports showed that 20,000 Democrats fled the state Democratic Party ahead of Super Tuesday, according to The Boston Herald. Un-enrolled voters in the Bay State could cast a vote for either party.
Clinton won the state in 2008 by a small margin before ultimately losing the nomination to then-Sen. Barack Obama. Sanders saw Massachusetts as a chance to get ahead and invested significant resources campaigning in the state, calling the primary a “ripe opportunity.”
Notably, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) did not endorse either candidate ahead of Super Tuesday. Warren’s aides told Politico that she was waiting for Clinton to win enough delegates and be the clear nominee.
