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It follows landslide victories in Alaska and Washington for a clean sweep of results in Saturday's votes
Bernie Sanders won contests in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii on Saturday AP
Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic caucuses in Hawaii, adding to US presidential nomination victories in Washington and Alaska declared on Saturday night.
US media described the margin of victory in Hawaii, current president Barack Obama's home state, as emphatic.
It means the Vermont senator has taken three wins out of three in the states holding votes for their nominations on Saturday, in a major psychological boost to his supporters as he seeks to keep up the pressure on rival Hillary Clinton.
But analysts said the victories had made only a small dent in the significant lead enjoyed by Ms Clinton in terms of numbers of delegates.
After Mr Sanders' two early wins in Washington and Alaska on Saturday, Ms Clinton held a delegate lead of 1,234 to 956, according to an Associated Press analysis, an advantage that expands to 1,703-985 once the superdelegates are included. It takes 2,383 delegates to win.
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The Hawaii result nonetheless adds to the landslide wins for Mr Sanders in Washington, where he was leading on 71 per cent in a CNN count late on Saturday, and Alaska, where he had an even greater 80 per cent.
Grinning as he addressed supporters, in Madison, Wisconsin, Mr Sanders said: "I knew that we were going to have a hard time in the Deep South, where people are more conservative. But we knew things were going to improve as we headed West."
Mr Sanders insists there is still a "path to victory" for his campaign. But he needs to win more than 57 per cent of the remaining delegates from primaries and caucuses to have a majority of those delegates by June's end, again according to an AP count.
Washington was the biggest prize at stake on Saturday, with 101 delegates to offer compared to Hawaii's 25 and Alaska's 16, and both candidates had focussed their campaigning there.
Prior to the results coming out, Ms Clinton told supporters in Everett: “We are on the path to the nomination, and I want Washington to be part of how we get there.”
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| Bernie Sanders | |
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Official Senate portrait of Sanders, 2007
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| United States Senator from Vermont | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2007 Serving with Patrick Leahy | |
| Preceded by | Jim Jeffords |
| Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs | |
| In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Patty Murray |
| Succeeded by | Johnny Isakson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large district | |
| In office January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Plympton Smith |
| Succeeded by | Peter Welch |
| Mayor of Burlington, Vermont | |
| In office April 6, 1981 – April 4, 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Gordon Paquette |
| Succeeded by | Peter Clavelle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Bernard Sanders September 8, 1941 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Political party | Liberty Union (Before 1979) Independent (1979–2015) Democratic (2015–present)† |
| Spouse(s) | Deborah Shiling (1964–1966) Jane O’Meara (1988–present) |
| Domestic partner | Susan Mott (1969)[1] |
| Children | 1; 3 step-children |
| Residence | Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College (1959–60) University of Chicago(1960–64) |
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| Website | Senate website Campaign website |
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and the junior United States senator from Vermont. He is acandidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. A member of the Democratic Party since 2015,[2]Sanders had been the longest-servingindependent in U.S. congressional history, though his caucusing with the Democrats entitled him to committee assignments and at times gave Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority memberon the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously served for two years as chair of theSenate Veterans' Affairs Committee.
Sanders was born and raised inBrooklyn, New York City, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student he was an active civil rights protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. After settling in Vermont in 1968, Sanders ran unsuccessful third-party campaigns for governor and U.S. senator in the early to mid-1970s. As an independent, he was elected mayor of Burlington—Vermont's most populous city—in 1981, where he was reelected three times. In 1990 he was elected to represent Vermont's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1991 Sanders co-founded theCongressional Progressive Caucus. He served as a congressman for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012, he wasreelected with 71% of the popular vote.
Sanders rose to national prominence following his 2010 filibuster against the proposed extension of the Bush tax cuts. He favors policies similar to those of social democratic parties inEurope, particularly those instituted bythe Nordic countries, and has built a reputation as a leading progressivevoice on issues such as campaign finance reform, corporate welfare,global warming, income inequality,LGBT rights, parental leave, anduniversal healthcare. Sanders has long been critical of U.S. foreign policy and was an early and outspoken opponent of the Iraq War. He is also outspoken on civil liberties and civil rights, particularly criticizing racial discrimination in the criminal justice system as well as advocating forprivacy rights against mass surveillance policies such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the NSA surveillance programs.
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