Sanders Reacts To Vermont Win: Super Tuesday Not ‘Winner-Take-All’ Event

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., raises his fist in the air during a campaign rally at Milton High School in Milton, Mass., Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) promised supporters he would keep on fighting after securing a sweeping primary win in his home state, reminding voters that Super Tuesday is not “winner-take-all.”

“At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain,” Sanders told a raucous crowd in Essex Junction, Vermont. “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.”

The Vermont senator sounded a call for unity, saying Americans of all backgrounds must come together in this election to prove “that our government belongs to all of us.”

Sanders also called out the Republican frontrunner by name, insisting that the country can’t allow the “Donald Trumps of the world to divide us.”

As of 8:00 p.m. ET, the GOP primary race in Vermont was a dead heat between Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R).

The early timing of Sanders’ speech, which came well before polls closed in several other primary states, suggested he did not expect a big finish in those other Super Tuesday contests. His opponent Hillary Clinton already secured victories in Virginia and Georgia, and was projected to beat Sanders in several other Southern states on Tuesday night.

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