SALT LAKE CITY – Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic presidential caucuses in Utah and Idaho, though he remains hundreds of delegates behind Hillary Clinton.
The Vermont senator campaigned hard in Utah over the past week. He appeared twice at rallies that drew thousands of people, many of them young voters.
Clinton didn’t make any public campaign appearances in Utah ahead of the caucus, instead sending her daughter to speak last week on her behalf.
Sanders told Utah voters at a rally Monday in Salt Lake City that they were compassionate people who should embrace his “political revolution.” He vowed to raise the minimum wage, provide equal pay to women and alleviate student debt. He decried an economy that favors the wealthy and a flawed criminal justice system.
Utah voters flooded presidential caucuses in unprecedented numbers Tuesday – creating long delays for voters and leading some Democratic sites to run out of ballots and send caucus workers scurrying for paper to print more.