like you said not a lot of
Washingtonians necessarily used to that
so maybe in the future with other
primaries we will see an even higher
turnout but again right now statewide
we're seeing a very narrow race Bernie
Sanders in the lead by just a couple
hundred votes Joe Biden hanging in there
it's it's been a pretty I would say
that's not a great sign for Bernie
Sanders and he hasn't been really seeing
granny great signs today
Presley yeah this has kind of been
referred to March 10th it's like a mini
Super Tuesday six states voting in their
primaries tonight I understand our
producer telling us we have some results
to show you once again if you could pull
those up full screen right now so this
is the president's of primary for
Washington's statewide look at that now
Bernie Sanders now in the lead and these
are obviously you separated by about
1200 votes right now yeah this razor
thin line and that's it is very much
interesting because Bernie Sanders had
Washington State was a big stronghold
for him in 2016 and this year he's not
having as good of performance though he
is still in the lead right now and he is
gonna get quite a few delegates from the
state of Washington the question is will
be enough delegates to keep him in the
race the momentum right now for him
certainly slow yeah yeah 89 delegates up
for grabs total in Washington State 20
and Idaho the big prize kind of tonight
was Michigan Michigan was the big one
tonight 125 delegates up for grabs and
Joe Biden winning every single County in
the state of Michigan right now that
really seemed to kind of turn the tide
you can see there Joe Biden 5439 Joe
Biden kind of separated from the field
first during Super Tuesday we first saw
him gain momentum in the South Carolina
primary
he won Super Tuesday quite a few states
Bernie did win California which was huge
right
but in Super Tuesday Biden started to
separate and now here you can make a
case that Michigan is kind of the the
final blow to the Sanders campaign it
would be very difficult for Sanders to
come back but a huge win in Washington
could mean is kind of like last hanging
on point sure hey stick with us because
we have a question from a viewer right
now we want to go to right now
about kind of this primary process with
the ballots in Washington Casey a lot of
folks uncomfortable with declaring a
party on the outside of their ballot oh
yeah and the question there about why it
has to be on the outside of the envelope
and ironically enough the answer is to
protect your privacy now it might seem a
little weird to
have you know your party affiliation and
your signature on the outside of the
ballot for anyone I really just the
mailman to see right but the thing is
when they count the ballots they want to
have the actual ballot separate from any
indication of what your name is who you
are they don't want those two things to
be connected at all when they're
actually tabulating the ballots they
need them to be separate and so they
have to make sure that anything of the
signature anything of that could
identify you is on the envelope or
outside not attached to the ballot so
even though it seems like maybe that is
an invasion of your privacy the argument
for it is that it protects your privacy
yeah so we mentioned statewide right now
Sanders in the lead narrowly versus
Biden what about our local results okay
Spokane County elections office there
was a line out the door there earlier
tonight leading up to 8 o'clock tonight
yeah very very busy creme to stim Pham
has been there pretty much all evening
he's joining us now live with how
everything went and as they continued to
count those ballots Tim yeah you guys
down to the last minute someone walked
in here 30 seconds before the polls were
gonna close and he got his vote in but
yeah this place was bustling earlier and
it's much quieter now and I got to
really commend the Spokane County
Election office they move quick here
because as soon as the doors closed and
were locked within minutes they gave us
the results so we could bring it to you
so they are working very hard and they
say they'll be out of here by 9:30
tonight counting all the votes and then
by tomorrow morning obviously more votes
will come in but as you guys were just
talking about with the concern people
have with their ballots and choosing a
party and signing it this is a sample
ballot of the one that got rejected
essentially and it was actually the
parties that decided to have it on the
outside of the envelope so you know a
lot of people came in frustrated today
saying you know why are you guys making
us sign in declare our party well it was
actually both the Republican and
Democratic parties and the legislature
that approved that process to happen on
the outside of the envelope nonetheless
people who did not do one of those
things sign the oath or pick a party
they those ballots are rejected at least
for now because and we're told that 5%
of Washingtonians who participated in
this election did not follow the steps
properly and that's
just from what they've received so far
so you might be receiving a notification
that you might need to fix your ballot
otherwise your vote won't count so as
we've been telling you both parties
primaries are listed on the same ballot
in Washington this time around but you
could only pick one or the other to vote
in and you had to sign that statement on
the envelope promising you didn't vote
for both so again this is a new process
election officials are very aware of
that and that there's going to be a
learning curve so if your ballot is
rejected you'll get a second chance a
letter will be sent to you if you have
an incomplete ballot giving you one more
opportunity to correct the mistake
now there's also another question that
I've been seeing a lot on social media
and people wondering is what about the
candidates on the Democratic side that
have since dropped out what happens to
your vote if you chose one of them well
election officials tell me that these
ballots were printed actually two months
ago and it's up to the party to decide
what to do with those results there are
names on the ballot that have since
dropped out and it will be up to the
Democratic Party to decide what to do
with those votes but we will count every
vote as marked for each one of those
candidates and report that to the
Democratic Party so far thousands of
letters have been sent out to voters
letting them know that their ballot was
rejected so if you do receive one of
those letters you only have until March
19th to fix the mistake and then get it
back to your election office by the 19th
of this month because they certify the
results on March 20th so you'll want to
make sure you do that if you want your
vote counted interestingly right now
voter turnout in Spokane County is still
sitting around 40 percent or so about 39
percent which is actually very
comparable to the Westside right now
King County is sitting at 40 percent
although the Spokane Auditor tells me
that they anticipate that number to go
up closer to 50 percent here in Spokane
County for this primary election which
is a good turnout she tells me but for
now reporting live in Spokane County I'm
Tim Pham créme 2 news all right Tim
thank you very much we know that the
early returns have just come in starting
at 8 about 8:15 tonight not including
all of the ballots that were
in all of the post office boxes and in
all of the drop boxes located around the
county yeah just initial returns our
Casey Decker standing by right behind us
kind of an ins election Center tonight
with those initial returns from Spokane
County Casey yeah guys and right now you
mentioned initial return Spokane County
what we're seeing is that about a
hundred and seventeen thousand ballots
have been counted with about 10,000 more
to go so I wouldn't expect a whole lot
of change in the outcomes here then
again the outcomes are pretty narrow
let's go ahead and take a look at the
Spokane County results again as we
mentioned before Joe Biden currently
with a very very narrow victory just 228
votes not even a victory just a lead
right now 228 votes over Bernie Sanders
Mike Bloomberg also coming in with 15%
right now that's a pretty interesting
number right there considering he is no
longer in the race a lot of people
filling out their ballots before
candidates like Bloomberg Warren clos
Bashar Budaj edge started dropping out
and we're can see we can see here it's
enough that it arguably is changing the
outcome of these races in Spokane County
at least right now though Biden with a
very narrow lead about 10,000 votes
still left to count in Spokane County
and I want to actually show you one
County that I was just looking at that
really surprised me here this was
incredibly interesting to me Douglas
County right now Douglas County won by
Bernie Sanders in 2016 73 26 right now
Douglas County is being won by Michael
Bennett Michael Bennett is somebody who
dropped out of the race weeks ago and
all I said we just actually now gotten
new results this was the original
results Michael Bennett was winning he
had 20 votes now we've got an updated
results a little more normal we're
seeing Joe Biden right now with 34
Bernie Sanders of 29 and Michael
Bloomberg with 14 there so Spokane
County right now going to Biden Bernie
Sanders with just a couple hundred votes
behind and we'll take one more look now
at King County King County also
obviously a big decider in a lot of
these elections going to Bernie Sanders
in 2016 and we'll go ahead and take a
look at King County now hear how it's
looking in 2020 Bernie Sanders still
winning this time though not by a lot
and we saw Michael Bloomberg with 15% in
Spokane County in King County it's
different 15 percent winner
with Warren but she also dropped out of
the race so again a lot of folks in this
case at least 60,000 nearly 60,000
people voting before these candidates
dropped out or even maybe deciding to
vote for them even after they had
dropped out and finally one more County
now that I want to look at and that's
Whitman County just to our south here
the area where Pullman is at Washington
state is at Whitman County went very
heavily to Bernie Sanders in 2016 you
see there are 79 percent Hillary Clinton
just 20 percent and this year it is
actually still one of Bernie Sanders
best counties so far now obviously only
a few thousand votes in this county
altogether so far Bernie Sanders 39 Joe
Biden only coming in was 17 and
Elizabeth Warren also with 17 so Bernie
Sanders still doing pretty well in
Whitman County this year even though
he's comparably struggling compared to
2016 in some of those other gears we'll
send it back to you mark and Whitney
see if we could bring you back up here
to the set to kind of join us real quick
I got a question for you because this
year as we pointed out Washington and
Idaho into a primary versus a caucus I
see kind of what you were saying does
that means turnout is probably higher
but I guess what the ballots went out
weeks ago at least in Washington so a
lot of these candidates are run are in
the race right now and that could have
an impact yeah absolutely it's one of
the things one of the possible downfalls
that we knew about going into this
switching to the primary and
specifically switching to the
vote-by-mail system right because in
Idaho if you're actually going to the
polls are probably not voting for
somebody who you just saw dropped out of
the race but if you get your ballot two
weeks ago and you're filling it out in
the kitchen table and you're saying I
like Elizabeth Warren a lot I don't care
what the polls say like right now I
that's my candidate you send that in and
then two days later she drops out and
you're like well what happens now yeah
and earlier today I think that the
Spokane County Elections Office they
were saying that it's up to the party to
decide how they will handle the
delegates that went to those candidates
who have now dropped out right and I
believe the way the Democratic Party
organizes this is at least in the
convention on the first ballot when all
the delegates make their first vote any
candidate who's won any Doug it's even
if they dropped out later those
delegates are still there so they still
go to warrant or budda judge or whoever
now after that if say Joe Biden has won
has a majority of the delegates then Joe
Biden's one he's the not
but if nobody has a majority the
delegates after that first round then
they vote again and when they vote again
all the delegates can basically just
vote for whoever they want whether they
were originally for Warren or Buddha
judge or binder whoever and so then it
becomes just basically a fight to win
over specific delegates if you're just
joining us we're live stream kind the
initial election results from Washington
part of Washington and Idaho primaries
tonight you're looking at the statewide
results so far senator Bernie Sanders
just narrowly against Jill Biden here
and Casey I also want to ask you about
obviously we're focusing on the
Democratic candidates versus President
Donald Trump who's obviously running on
the Republican ticket because Hebert
relie faces no competition yeah he
actually in the state of Washington he
literally faces no competition it was up
to the parties to decide how people are
going to be named on the ballot and the
Republican Party decided we have an
incumbent president we don't want
anybody challenging him in the state of
Washington Republican Party said if
you're voting in our primary you're
voting for Trump that's your only option
or I guess a write-in candidate okay so
six states holding their primaries
tonight kind of a mini Super Tuesday we
have results from well gosh almost all
six by Nelson waiting on the results
from Idaho in Washington yes so we know
that we have what Michigan of course was
the big prize of the night Missouri also
those states have already been called
North Dakota still they were waiting on
that one but we have Regina on who is
standing by live right now with some of
the results from those other states
Regina hey guys well you know polls did
close officially in all those six states
more than 300 delegates are at stake and
it's a winning night for former Vice
President Joe Biden especially in
Michigan where Bernie Sanders as you
recalled was looking for a repeat
victory Sanders won Michigan back in
2016 but it didn't go that way this time
Biden is a projected winner there many
Biden supporters say they voted for him
because he had a better chance or has a
better chance at winning president Trump
Biden is also the projected winner in
Missouri and Mississippi Biden just
spoke a few minutes ago thanking his
supporters and the Democratic runner-ups
for their support so many my incredibly
capable competitors have endorsed me
mayor Pete Buda judge amy klobuchar bet
O'Rourke Mike Bloomberg Cory Booker and
Komal Harris together together we're
bringing this party together that's what
we have to do tonight we are a step
closer to restoring decency dignity and
honor to the white house that's our
ultimate glory and Biden's campaign did
cancel an event in Tampa on Thursday
over coronavirus concerns he will
however deliver remarks on the corona
virus in his home state of Delaware now
speaking of corona virus CBS News exit
polls show a majority of Democratic
primary voters say Biden is the best
candidate to handle a major crisis like
coronavirus so for now let's take a look
at the most up-to-date results in the
four other states along with Idaho and
Washington here's Michigan again these
are not final numbers we're sitting at
54% for Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders
trailing at 38% again 125 delegates
there so the biggest prized state is
Michigan again let's move on to Missouri
with 68 delegates available 61% going to
Joe Biden there so a big over half of
the voters they're going for Biden now
let's turn to Mississippi with 36
delegates 81% going for a Biden there so
I mean he's clearly taking the lead in
Mississippi as we mentioned earlier now
let's turn the page to North Dakota
you'll see a little bit of a different
percentage here 14 delegates scared
North Dakota is the only state that's
leaning towards Bernie Sanders you'll
see that 37% 878 voters there so we'll
be sure to keep you updated tonight with
those finals numbers going throughout
the night it's still early in the
evening well I'm the newsroom Rodina on
crime 2 News Regina thank you very much
and Regina was talking there about
Michigan the biggest prize of the night
and shortly after Michigan was declared
for Joe Biden it was announced it was
reported New York Times reported that
Bernie Sanders was going to not speak
tonight that's a pretty big development
to me that that's signifies that you
know things were not going the way they
were hoping for or
they were planning for tonight and if
he's not speaking tonight that seems to
me that it's likely he's reassessing
things right now so we'll see what ends
up happening there but certainly not the
night that the Sanders campaign okay see
thank you very much you mentioned the
big prize Michigan Washington 89
delegates up for grabs the state of
Idaho 20 delegates up for grabs we
understand we have some initial returns
now from the state of Idaho we want to
go now to our Taylor wall there they are
right there so look at that Joe Biden on
the Democratic side 44% of the votes so
far 35% Bernie Sanders so the good night
continues for Joe Biden we have our
Taylor veto who is standing by he's been
in North Idaho pretty much all day as
voters who don't have a mail-in ballot
system but they do go to the directly to
the polls Idaho as you said mark 20
delegates up for grabs tonight Taylor
veto has been out covering those polling
locations he's live now outside of the
Kootenai County Elections Office Taylor
oh yeah guys and throughout the day slow
and steady was kind of the slogan used
by staff at polling locations in terms
of the amount of voters showing up and
casting their ballots today three
different potential ballots and really
within the last hour or so 45 minutes
about you know here at the county
elections office in Cortland we've
really seen lots of folks arrive here
and their work is now just starting to
begin as those results will be coming
down of course you've been mentioning
some of the early results a lot of that
likely from southern Idaho the time zone
they're making a difference it is
expected that President Trump won't have
a hard time winning Idaho's GOP primary
or the state in the November election
as for the Democratic ticket Idaho
Democrats chose Bernie Sanders over
Hillary Clinton in 2016 we of course now
will remain in tune we'll stay tuned to
see what happens next
also today Idaho voters had the option
of voting in the Constitution Party
primary if that happened to be their
party of choice it's worth mentioning
that some political analysts have noted
that Idaho last year was the country's
fastest growing state and with that this
election certainly has some new voters
in Idaho one polling place earlier today
told us that they had some new voters
registered today so something kind of
unique in regards to this state and all
the voters coming to this state now all
of this you could argue somewhat of the
calm before the storm before another
primary that will happen in May
that primary voters in Idaho will decide
on local and state races here in
Kootenai County specifically voters will
decide on candidates for county
commissioner and sheriff so that's
expected to be a certainly interesting
race and one that will get a lot of
local participation for now reporting
live outside the county elections office
Steeler brighto creme tee news thank you
we just put that graphic up there
briefly but you saw the results when
Republican side for the state of Idaho
obviously overwhelming for current
president Donald Trump yeah not a lot of
surprise there really no candidate was
actually running against Trump that's
like a look at him here's a little
longer look oh look at the Michigan
Democratic there we go there's GOP I
know yeah bill weld from Massachusetts
he decided to run technically he's not
really running a very vigorous campaign
really it's it's pretty rare to see
anyone challenge an incumbent president
so not very surprising there and like we
mentioned before in fact of the state of
Washington they said we're not even
gonna bother with that it's Trump or
bust yeah okay back to Washington
obviously the bulk of voters in King
County no surprise right now right we
showed you what we have seen so far in
Eastern Washington and North Idaho now
we want to head over to western wash
absolutely Natalie sway be is at our
sister station in Seattle she's at the
King County Elections Office right now
with more on how voting has gone over
there Natalie oh yeah here at King
County Elections headquarters they say
they've seen a record-breaking turnout
for a presidential primary now you can
see the doors here are closed they close
to 8 o'clock but we want to show you
some video from earlier earlier tonight
we saw people showing up some to
register and vote others were dropping
off their ballots and we were also in
another area of the building tonight
where they were processing the ballots
we saw workers wearing gloves a
requirement because of coronavirus
concerns and in this room ballots are
carefully checked one thing workers are
looking for voters must mark democrat or
republican on their ballot and so for so
far about 24,000 people have failed to
do that King County elections we'll be
contacting those people because if it is
not included on the ballot it is
considered invalid now one person voting
today is Ron Jones of Seattle he says
he's been encouraging people especially
young adults to get their ballot in I
just know that from
experience from the last election a lot
of young people that I talked to didn't
want a certain party member so they just
didn't vote which really made a big
difference so that meant that the other
party had an advantage for all these
people that aren't voting King County
elections tells me about half of the
ballots will be tallied tonight majority
of the ballots should be counted by
Friday reporting tonight live from
Renton I'll send it back to you all
right Natalie thank you very much she's
talking also about the change in this
year system from a caucus to a primary a
lot of voters struggling either not
understanding the importance of
declaring the primary on that envelope
or not wanting to do it right we heard
right there the Pro and the con of
hearing it this way right the Pro is you
get a higher turnout because you don't
have to get a babysitter and actually go
to a physical caucus the con is now you
have to figure out this whole new system
and the way that the state has decided
to do it is you have to declare a party
on the outside of the envelope a lot of
Washington voters who you know we don't
have to register for parties in
Washington because we have our top two
primary system for a normal election
we're not used to having to declare a
party and so a lot of people they're
independently minded they don't want to
do that and so they basically protest
vote or even mistake vote and he ends up
with tens of thousands of votes not
counting oh and on top of that the
ballots in Washington at least went out
several weeks ago where there are many
more candidates still in the race since
dropped out so a lot of that vote you've
got to imagine went to those candidates
who since dropped out yeah and actually
if we take a look again at the Spokane
County results we can see something
pretty interesting there where we see
Biden and Bernie doing what doing well
they're number one and two Biden at
number one in Bernie and number two but
if we take a look there you see Mike
Bloomberg at number three and he's got
15 percent sure and that if it was a
statewide number would be enough to meet
the threshold to get delegates now it
doesn't really work that way county by
county but it's still a pretty
impressive number and if any of that
amount went to either one of those
candidates it would pretty easily break
the tie because the tie there is not
very much it's just 228 votes in Spokane
County right now with 63 percent
reporting so yeah a lot of people like
you mentioned mark filling out their
ballot a little early and maybe paying
the price for it there we mentioned this
before but if you're just joining us
it's not a winner-take-all situation
either right no it meet up threshold and
then you get a certain amount of
Delegates
from mistake yeah it's proportional at
the state level and at the congressional
district level so at this point though
right now actually let's take one more
look if we can at the statewide results
sure right now I believe yet we're
seeing number one and two there if we
see the other ones I'm not sure if
anybody else is meeting the threshold
right now to even get any statewide
delegates I believe I'm gonna take a
look here at the Secretary of State
results and yeah I'm not seeing anyone
else reaching the fifteen percent
threshold Elizabeth Warren is the
closest at just over 12 percent so she
won't get any statewide delegates now if
she has a particular stronghold in one
of the congressional districts then
maybe she could but right now it looks
like from the Washington primary only
Biden and Bernie Sanders will be getting
any telegin the results are remarkable
when you consider about a month ago Joe
Biden came in fifth place in New
Hampshire
yeah just his campaign has kind of
resurrected itself obviously exactly it
shows how quickly these things change he
won in South Carolina by a huge margin
and that complete like you said
resurrected his campaign all around me
things can change also even just on one
primary night sure exactly I mean within
the span of a week we went from Bernie
winning Nevada by a lot and everyone was
saying oh wow Bernie's now the
front-runner and then Biden comes in and
just dominates in South Carolina the
moderates at the party the establishment
start to coalesce around Joe Biden he
gets all these endorsements other
candidates dropping out people saying we
want to back Biden because we don't want
Bernie Sanders to be the nominee so he's
got a lot of opposition from his own
party there and then going into Super
Tuesday that ends up mattering quite a
bit Biden wins Massachusetts in
Minnesota all these states that Bernie
Sanders was depending on and now Biden
comes into tonight with a big lead wins
Michigan and now you know he's catching
up with Bernie in Washington yeah here
we can see the full numbers but like you
were saying earlier mark 12% for Warren
11% for Bloomberg that's a lot of votes
that right now are not going to be
resulting in any delegates assign people
voting before those candidates ended up
dropping correct me if I'm Rob Casey
Elizabeth Warren has yet to endure
endorse either Biden or Sanders right
yeah and that's been a very conscious
controversial move from her because she
ran on a lot of the same policies as
Bernie Sanders did and now after
dropping out she hasn't endorsed Bernie
Sanders and so a lot of people are
questioning how much did she really care
about those policies how much is
this is a political maneuver how much of
this is any sort of personal animosity
she might have had over the course of
the campaign but that could have been a
big decision for a lot of people who
might have ended up switching to Bernie
but because she didn't endorse you know
they either stayed with Warren her might
have gone with Joe Biden we mentioned
voter turnout when it comes to primaries
versus caucuses voter turnout usually
higher with a primary when people are
mailing in their ballots in Spokane
County I think that last check we were
roughly forty percent voter turnout our
Tim Pham is live at the elections office
right now with an update on that too
well hey guys we are behind the scenes
here at the elections office it's in
Spokane County I'm joined with Vicki
Dalton this is a kind of not it's like a
organized chaos back here it was it
seems like you guys would do a really
good job they move quick you guys I'm
told you were gonna leave by 9:30
tonight well probably Vicki walk us
through the process what are we seeing
over here so what we're seeing are the
ballots coming in from the drop boxes so
each one of the bags is full of ballots
they're sorting them out Republican
Democrat and let's just call them
boo-boo ballots and once those are all
sorted out from each one of the drop
boxes we take them we weigh them to
estimate the number and then we're going
to lock them away for the night and we
will start working these first thing
tomorrow morning so you guys are
constantly getting more and more ballots
in different bags these are coming again
you said from those different white
containers and also the other drop-off
locations right yes so these are from
our roughly 25 different drop boxes and
then our voter service center out at
Center place so I have two people at
each one of the drop boxes and they lock
the box promptly at 8:00 and then they
empty the drop box and bring them in and
our bags are sealed and tagged and then
what about people who drop their ballot
off in the mail when do those start
rolling in so anything that was put into
the mail today will get to us either
tomorrow or Thursday okay and then these
boats are sealed away and then when do
you anticipate to get the next boat
count I guess would be tomorrow morning
or sometime this week we will do another
vote count and release it between five
and six o'clock tomorrow okay great
Vicki Dalton from the Spokane Elections
Office thinks so much thanks for your
hard work and thanks for putting in the
late hours anytime in great staff all
right guys we'll send it back to you all
right Tim fam'ly the Spokane County
Elections Office
thank you very much obviously votes
still being tabulated we do though have
a look at at least initial returns
statewide and also county by county yeah
let's take a look at the statewide
numbers if we can pull those up for all
of Washington right now again you can
see a very close race still Bernie
Sanders and Joe Biden only separated by
about two thousand votes both
technically with 33 percent and you can
see Elizabeth Warren now actually with a
hundred and twenty six thousand
in votes or 12% yeah it is certainly a
close one let's go back now to our
political reporter Casey Decker standing
by on his election center right behind
me here with kind of a breakdown in some
more county by county results Casey yeah
one of the interesting things mark is
that across the state right now there
really isn't one candidate who's
sweeping the counties even regionally
it's not like the east side is surviving
in the west side it's of Bernie let's go
ahead and take a look county by county
here on the east side right now Spokane
County you can see in 2016
went for Bernie right now it is going
for Biden now just by 228 votes with 63
percent reporting but still going for
Biden but what's interesting if we take
a look around the east side of the state
we can go on down to Whitman County
right now Whitman County also dominant
performance for Bernie Sanders in 2016
and we'll just give it a second here to
load the results for Whitman County and
right now you can see Bernie Sanders
still winning there so Spokane County
for Biden Whitman County for Bernie and
you might also be interested to know
that a lot of the Northeast counties
even in the northeast part of the state
of Washington right now not going
necessarily one way or the other
let's go and take a look at pend oreille
County I'll pull pend oreille County up
and like the rest of the state of
Washington in 2016 it went for Bernie
we'll go ahead and take a look at how
pend oreille County is looking with just
about 50 percent of the vote in right
now pend oreille County going to Joe
Biden like Spokane County is but one
more look now at Stevens County we'll
take a look at Stephens County went to
Bernie like every other one eighty
percent actually in 2016 with forty
percent reporting in 2020 Bernie Sanders
leading in Stephens County so we're
really not seeing a lot of even
localized trends right now we've got
Spokane County going for Biden we got
pend oreille County going for Biden we
got Whitman County going for Bernie and
we've got Stevens County going for
birdie same thing on the west side I was
looking at this earlier right now King
County is being won by Bernie Sanders
but it's neighboring counties Peirce and
Snohomish those are both going to Joe
Biden so really not a lot of trends as
we go region by region other than you'll
see a lot of the times here you know
these more rural counties they have just
less votes so little things tend to sway
them and also some different levels of
reporting we have higher levels maybe in
Spokane County with 63% compared to the
lower 24 30 percent since some of the
more room we've been mentioning this
throughout the night it's not a
winner-take-all such a way
so you know it looks at least right now
off the trend continue to stay wide
Biden will take some of the delegates
and Bernie Sanders will take some of the
delegates which overall is kind of a
loss it seems for senator Sanders at
this point that's exactly right because
if this had been at the very beginning
of the race right that would have been
an interesting thing where everyone like
all right these are the two frontrunners
Biden and Sanders both coming with
delegates either one of them has a path
to the victory right but right now
towards the end of the race Bernie
Sanders needed a huge win in Washington
to really stay viable 89 delegates in
play he basically needed to win almost
all of those really to make up for his
losses in Michigan Minnesota
Massachusetts exceed 7 report percent
reporting statewide senator Sanders is
up about by about two thousand votes at
this point yeah and and you know looks
good for him he's winning she's winning
state of Washington but it's really
probably not buy enough to really give
him much of a clear path to the
nomination at this point and again you
mentioned that tonight earlier in the
evening his on his campaign mentioned
that he will not be speaking tonight
kind of another indication you think
that he's recognizing that he has is
losing his momentum usually you don't
cancel speeches for a good reason
there's usually not you're not canceling
a speech because you're super excited to
announce a new policy
you're usually cancelling speeches
because something went wrong something
went unexpected and you have to reassess
something obviously that speculation
maybe he does come out tomorrow and say
I'm announcing a vice presidential pick
in the last-ditch effort to try to win
this thing but after all these you know
under performances that we've seen from
his campaign it doesn't look good for
them okay so that's the look at the
Washington results so far we want to
turn our attention now to the state of
Idaho or Taylor bino standing by live in
I think in Coeur d'Alene tonight with
some of the initial returns from Idaho
Taylor yeah guys actually don't have
those numbers in front of me right now I
think you guys might actually know more
than I do in that regard but I can't say
we've been here outside the Kootenai
County Elections Office for about the
last hour or so and really at the
earlier part of that we saw a lot of
people start coming in we saw the
parking lot fill up and I've seen you
know within the last half hour or so
some people bringing in water bottles
cases of water into the Elections Office
there so we can only imagine they are
pretty busy counting ballots there
as you mentioned earlier 20 delegates 20
Democratic delegates up for grabs across
Idaho all the work now really starting
most of the results likely that we've
been seeing at this point though
probably coming from southern Idaho
since you know polls were closing at
8:00 and they were an hour ahead due to
the timezone there that's forgive me as
I look for my place here voters here had
three different ballots to choose from
there was the Republican one the
democratic one and of course the
constitution party it was a third party
with six candidates on their primary
ballot those candidates ranged from a
family medicine doctor to a financial
adviser a local leader with the
Constitution Party of Idaho says that
the party is interested in going back to
focusing on the Constitution and moving
away from political strife it slogan is
being part of integrity liberty and
prosperity again that's just another
party that was presenting some
candidates before voters today as we've
been mentioning all this evening of
course President Donald Trump expected
to not have any problems winning the
Republican nomination or winning the
state come November in 2016 though
voters chose Bernie Sanders over Hillary
Clinton of course we will continue to
stay posted tonight as we learn more for
now reporting live outside the County
Elections Office
Taylor veto Graham T News thank you very
much
primary night in Washington and Idaho as
well as four other states so six states
total tonight kind of a mini Super
Tuesday if you will and boy looks like
Joe Biden continues his momentum tonight
technically a victory so far for Bernie
Sanders in the state of Washington but
as we said just a moment ago the big
takeaway here is not big enough of a
victory most likely for his campaign to
remain viable you're seeing there 33%
from Bernie Sanders 33% for Joe Biden
it's a very very close race the state of
Washington is very split and also state
of Washington again because of the
mail-in ballots voting for a lot of some
candidates who dropped out of the race
we I'm Elizabeth Warren with 12 percent
Michael Bloomberg with 11 percent Pete
Giudice is 6 percent he dropped out
several weeks ago so lots of people
going towards candidates who aren't even
let's take a look if we can guys pull up
the results for Spokane County
specifically right now if we can take a
look at those they're on their way I
understand but I think if I'm not
mistaken that senator Biden is up right
now or rather former Vice President
Biden
Yeah right now yeah Biden's up in
Spokane County again just barely 228
votes it's really interesting to see how
statewide regionally countywide locally
there doesn't really seem to be any sort
of trend across these other than voters
are split right right okay well if
you're just joining us we are covering
the initial returns for the state of
Washington and Idaho and the
presidential primary we're talking
mostly about the Democrats tonight
because really there's no competition
for President Donald train in this race
yeah he's the incumbent no Republicans
are running a serious campaign against
him so he's going to win the state of
Washington he's gonna win the state of
Idaho right now Joe Biden is leading in
the state of Idaho Bernie Sanders is
leading the state of Washington but will
it be enough to keep his campaign alive
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