Bernie Sanders’ supporters handed him a win in the Oregon primary on Tuesday, adding to his run of late victories over Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “This was not magic, this was hard work,” said Morgan Watters, Sanders’ Oregon field director. Related: Amid Western drought, Oregon county to vote on Nestlé bottling public waterClinton declares victory in KentuckyIn Kentucky, Clinton seemed to have clinched a narrow but morale-boosting victory. To win, he had to overcome the state’s closed primary, which allows only registered Democrats – not independents – to vote and heavily favored Clinton. From the start, it seemed Oregon was destined to be Bernie Sanders country.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2016 22:14 UTC