Hillary Clinton on Tuesday eked out a narrow win in the Kentucky Democratic primary over her stubborn foe Bernie Sanders who kept his White House hopes alive with a crucial victory in Oregon even as she set her sights on an epic clash with Republican Donald Trump in the November polls.
Clinton, 68, squeezed out a cliffhanger victory over Sanders in Kentucky, where the Secretary of State’s office said she led by 1,923 votes with all precincts reporting. The win keeps the former secretary of state on track to win the party’s nomination for the presidential polls but also highlights deep divisions in the party.
Clinton this time won Kentucky by half a percentage point in a State she won by 35 percentage points over Barack Obama in their 2008 primary clash and where her family has deep political roots going back decades.
Sanders easily won the Oregon primary, and declared at a raucous rally in California that despite pressure from the Clinton campaign to abandon his quest for the nomination, he would stay in the race “until the last ballot is cast.”
The Vermont Senator bagged 53 per cent of votes to Hillary’s 47 per cent.
After his morale-boosting win in Oregon, Sanders told thousands of his supporters in California that he is not giving up even though he has a steep hill to climb. However, despite the series of defeats in the Democratic primaries over the past few weeks, Clinton still appears to be on her way to clinch the nomination of the Democratic party for the November 8 general elections.