US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the Michigan Democratic primary while frontrunner Hillary Clinton triumphed in Mississippi.
“This has been a fantastic night in Michigan,” Sanders said shortly before the race was called in his favor in Michigan, one of two states holding Democratic presidential nominating contests on Tuesday.
With about 97 percent of the precincts reported, Sanders had 50 percent of the vote to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s 48 percent in Michigan, where 130 delegates are at stake.
“What tonight means is that the Bernie Sanders campaign, the people’s revolution that we are talking about,” Sanders said, “is strong in every part of the country.”
Clinton earlier won Mississippi by a wide margin, continuing a brilliant run in southern America where she has so far attracted the large African American vote.
Speaking at an evening rally in Cleveland before the Michigan results were announced,…