WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on Tuesday’s primary elections in Kentucky and Oregon (all times local):
6 p.m.
Polls are closed across most of Kentucky, where Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton faces rival Bernie Sanders in the state’s presidential primary. They’re open for another hour in about a third of the state.
It’s the first of two primary elections on Tuesday for Democrats, who also are voting in Oregon.
The former secretary of state entered Tuesday’s primaries with a lead of nearly 300 pledged delegates over Sanders. She also has a wide lead among party officials and elected leaders known as superdelegates.
Clinton is on track to clinch the Democratic nomination in early June, but is trying to avoid a streak of losses in the final stretch of the primary campaign.
Sanders is coming off recent primary wins in Indiana and West Virginia.
Republicans were also voting Tuesday in Oregon, with presumptive nominee Donald Trump expected to win easily.
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Donald Trump has picked up nine delegates in Guam. He now needs fewer than 100 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination for president.
The U.S. territory held its territorial convention in March. The delegates are unbound, which means they are free to support the candidate of their choice. In a statement, the Guam Republican Party said all nine delegates pledged to support Trump on Tuesday.
Trump has 1,143 delegates heading into the Oregon primary on Tuesday. He needs 1,237 to clinch the nomination.
There are 28 delegates at stake in Oregon’s Republican primary.