Sen. Bernie Sanders is projected to win the Democratic caucuses in ME, according to The Associated Press.
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Preliminary results show Sanders with 64 percent and Clinton 36 percent of the vote.
“The numbers are overwhelming”, said local Representative Jenniffer Gonzalez, chairwoman of Puerto Rico’s Republican Party.
In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Sanders said his campaign was happy about the states he won on “Super Saturday”.
Now, front-runner Donald Trump says he’s ready for a two-man showdown. Trump and Cruz are now significantly outpacing Marco Rubio in the delegate count, further shrinking the Florida senator’s already narrow path to the nomination.
When it comes to his home state of Ohio, Kasich finds himself in a position similar to the one Rubio is desperately trying to dig himself out of.
Marco Rubio is set to win the latest contest in the battle to be the Republican presidential candidate, a day after being urged to quit the race. Contested convention? The Republican establishment has blanched at Trump’s calls to build a wall on the border with Mexico, round up and deport 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally and temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the United States.
That stop wasn’t just about Puerto Rico. Republican hopefuls need the votes of 1,237 delegates to get the nod for the presidential race proper. He voted for Rubio.
The votes will be used to select a slate of delegates to the state convention, where national delegates will be elected. As expected, Mrs Clinton won the southern state comfortably, meaning she has at least 1,117 delegates to Mr Sanders’ 477, including “superdelegates”, members of Congress, governors and party officials, who can support the candidate of their choice.
In contrast, Rubio finished a distant third in Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana and was the only Republican not to claim a delegate in ME because he fell short of the 10% threshold required to qualify.
On Saturday, Clinton won in Louisiana, the biggest prize of the night, but Sanders won in Kansas and Nebraska.
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Maine Democrats held 533 caucuses at approximately 400 locations across the state, and 30 delegates are at stake.
