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May 18, 2016 The Skanner Page 3 News general election, his cam- paign announced that it had signed a joint fund- raising agreement with the Republican National Committee that will al- low it to raise cash for both his campaign and other Republican efforts. After months of discord within the GOP, Demo- crats displayed new signs that it could have trouble uniting around Clinton’s candidacy as Sanders plows through the end of the primary calendar in mid-June. Sanders will need to win about two-thirds of Before we will have the op- portunity to defeat Donald Trump, we’re going to have to defeat Secretary Clinton the remaining pledged delegates to end the pri- mary season in a tie but is not letting up. “Before we will have the opportunity to defeat Donald Trump, we’re going to have to defeat Secretary Clinton,” Sand- ers said Tuesday night to cheers in Carson, Cal- ifornia. Clinton ended the night with a commanding lead of 279 pledged delegates over Sanders and a dom- inant advantage among party officials and elect- ed leaders known as su- perdelegates. The outcomes in Ken- tucky and Oregon, where Sanders led by 9 percent- age points with roughly three-quarters of the vote counted, did not dramatically change the delegate count. The for- mer secretary of state re- mains on track to clinch the nomination on June 7 in the New Jersey pri- mary. But Tuesday’s elections followed a divisive week- end state party conven- tion in Nevada in which supporters of Sanders Voters structure, remain depen- dent on big-money cam- paign contributions and be a party with limited participation and limited energy.” Sanders pointed to polls that show him in a stronger head-to-head matchup against Trump than Clinton. With his win in Ore- gon, the billionaire busi- nessman now has 1,160 delegates, putting him within 77 delegates of clinching the Republican nomination. Trump had 67 percent of the vote in Oregon with about a quarter of the vote left to be count- ed. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Ka- sich both got about 16 percent of the vote. For Democrats, Clinton and Sanders will each pick up at least 25 dele- gates in Kentucky with five delegates remaining to be allocated pending final vote tallies. In Oregon, Sanders will receive at least 28 dele- gates and Clinton will get at least 24 of the 61 dele- gates at stake. In this Friday, May 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Eugene, Ore. Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in Oregon, adding another state to the presumptive GOP nominee’s tally of victories. Results In this Tuesday, May 10, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally in Salem, Ore. Sanders won the Democratic presidential primary in Oregon on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. cont’d from pg 1 Bob Niemeyer 33,987 - 10 percent Bob Forthan 4,041 - 1 percent GOVERNOR IND 931 of 1,000 precincts - 93 percent Cliff Thomason 9,165 - 59 percent Patrick Barney 6,383 - 41 percent U.S. SENATE DEM - PRIMARY 930 of 1,000 precincts - 93 percent Ron Wyden (i) 459,658 - 84 percent Kevin Stine 70,081 - 13 percent Paul Weaver 18,730 - 3 percent U.S. SENATE GOP Sharon Meieran - 21,141 Eric Zimmerman - 11,113 Mel Rader - 5,407 Brian Wilson - 4,363 Marisha Childs - 4,872 Ken Stokes - 1,241 Wes Soderback - 1,042 percent No Republican or Independent candidates filed STATE SEN, 22ND DIST DEM Lew Frederick 20,583 - 98.92 percent No Republican or Independent Party candidates filed MULTNOMAH CO COMM DIST #4 Lori Stegmann - 12,167 Stanley Dirks - 3,544 Amanda Schroeder - 10,173 STATE REP, 27TH DIST DEM Sheri Malstrom 6,211 - 88.29 percent Darin Campbell 793 - 11.27 percent No Republican or Independent candidates filed CITY OF PORTLAND MAYOR 909 of 1,000 precincts - 91 percent Mark Callahan 115,589 - 39 percent STATE REP, 43RD DIST DEM Sam Carpenter 97,570 - 33 percent Winner not declared at press time Faye Stewart 53,618 - 18 percent Tawna Sanchez 7,382 - 48.65 Dan Laschober 31,993 - 11 percent percent Roberta Phillip-Robbins 7,398 - U.S. SEN IND 48.75 percent 922 of 1,000 precincts - 92 percent Robert E Andrews Jr 341 - 2.25 Steven Reynolds 9,790 - 69 percent percent No Republican or Independent Marvin Sandnes 4,370 - 31 candidates filed percent STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 51ST DIST DEM SECRETARY OF STATE DEM Ted Wheeler - 88,971 Jules Bailey - 26,225 Sarah Iannarone - 17,481 CITY OF PORTLAND COMM, POS 1 Amanda Fritz - 99,792 Lanita Duke - 12,924 Ann Sanderson - 15,136 Tabitha Ivan - 4,821 Sara Long - 3,606 David Morrison - 6,011 CITY OF PORTLAND COMM, POS 4 Steve Novick - 60,465 Stuart Emmons - 20,296 Chloe Eudaly - 19,676 Fred Stewart - 11,631 914 of 1,000 precincts - 91 percent Brad Avakian 187,213 - 39 percent Val Hoyle 162,847 - 34 percent Richard Devlin 126,806 - 27 percent Janelle S Bynum 3,628 - 68.84 percent Randy Shannon 1,572 - 29.83 percent Write-in Votes 70 - 1.33 percent SECRETARY OF STATE GOP - PRIMARY Lori Chavez-DeRemer 2,943 96.94 Yes - 139,096 / No - 58,354 percent 912 of 1,000 precincts - 91 percent Dennis Richardson 256,597 - 78 percent Sid Leiken 70,318 - 22 percent STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 51ST DIST GOP MEASURE 26-173 CITY OF PORTLAND GAS TAX Yes -87,717 / No - 81,711 MEASURE 26-174 OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY LEVY MEASURE 26-171 CORBETT SCHOOL BOND MEASURE METRO COUNCILOR, 5TH DIST Sam Chase 37,483 Colby Clipston 10,968 No - 914 / Yes – 762 STATE SEN, 21ST DIST DEM METRO COUNCILOR, 6TH DIST Kathleen Taylor 23,195 - 88.84 percent John Sweeney 2,765 - 10.59 Bob Stacey - 42,646 Compiled from Oregon Secretary of State, Multnomah County Elections Office and Associated Press reports. MULTNOMAH CO COMM DIST #1 cont’d from pg 1 ise of single-payer health care that she volunteered for a candidate for the first time in her life. “I’ve never been political ever in my life, never ever. I’ve never cared, I’ve never been engaged,” Kinyon said, but she wanted to rally for Sanders. “I’ve made phone calls for him and I can- vassed and I went to his rallies. I wish I would have done more, but I have two little kids.” Similarly, the 26-year-old writer and musician Fields Puckett IV said that he switched his party affiliation to Demo- cratic and voted for the first time in any election. Puckett felt like his voice was important in this election. “I didn’t participate in the political process before,” he said. “I was for Obama, but I thought they had it taken care of, and I didn’t think it was radical enough to really need me. But I feel like he really needed us.” Not everyone was most concerned with the democratic presidential elec- tion. Transportation planner Sumi Ma- “ One respondent answered the question of why he voted with the deadpan re- tort, “I always vote.” Coworkers Jeromy Maligie and Cam- I’ve made phone calls for him and I canvassed and I went to his rallies. I wish I would have done more, but I have two little kids lik said she voted to support the 10-cent gas tax to fund road repairs. “I think it’s a user-based fee and it makes sense. We have a lot of deferred maintenance and deferred transporta- tion needs and I would like to see those addressed,” Malik said. She also wanted to vote to support city commissioner Steve Novick because she believes he has been doing a good job. Many people talked about the impor- tance of voting to be civically engaged. eron Knight from the 3D Visualization company, Spaceview, Inc., both said that voting was an integral part of citizen- ship. Maligie said that it was important to vote in all elections. Knight said vot- ing was meaningful to him because he immigrated here from Canada. He also said this election was a chance to vote against crooked politics. “I am very anti-corruption, so I am trying to make a voice against corrup- tion,” Knight said. PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY “ were accused of tossing chairs and making death threats against the Neva- da party chairwoman at the event in Las Vegas. Supporters argued that party leadership had rigged the results of the convention in favor of Clinton. Later, in California, Sanders said the par- ty could “do the right thing and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and so- cial change.” He said the other option would be to “maintain its status quo DANIELLE PETERSON/STATESMAN-JOURNAL VIA AP, FILE cont’d from pg 1 AP PHOTO/TED S. WARREN, FILE Primary Bernie Sanders supporters gather at the Democratic candidate’s Oregon headquarters in Northeast Portland Tuesday evening as primary results were announced. Sanders won the Democratic primary in Oregon, but still lags behind Hillary Clinton in the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination.
