Maine election brief: Biden, Sanders in deadlock, vaccine proposal defeated
Despite winning the Maine Democratic Party’s caucus vote by a sizable margin in 2016, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders found himself in almost a dead heat early Wednesday with former Vice President Joe Biden for Maine's 24 electors.
Biden was edging Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, by 1,865 votes at 11:23 a.m., with 91% of Maine’s Democratic primary ballots counted. Biden had 63,730 votes, or 33.9% of those cast, while Sanders’ total was 61,865, or 32.9%.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was trailing distantly, with 16% of the vote, and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg had 12%.
On Wednesday morning, Bloomberg said he was dropping out of the Democratic race and endorsing Biden, after failing to secure many delegates on Super Tuesday.
President Donald Trump was uncontested in Maine’s Republican presidential primary.
In other voting results, a citizen referendum that would have restored certain exemptions from Maine’s school vaccination requirements was soundly defeated.
With 76% of votes counted early Wednesday morning, voters had cast 214,110 ballots rejecting the referendum, and 74,255 in support.
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