Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump prevailed in West Virginia’s primaries on Tuesday, proving that voters are still “feeling the Bern” and embracing Trump’s blunt and unorthodox campaign strategy.
Sanders won the majority vote in the Democratic primary by more than 15 percent against opponent Hillary Clinton, who won over West Virginia’s Democrats in the 2008 primaries.
Clinton’s loss is not a surprise to many. Reporter Tal Kopan of CNN Politics reports that Sanders’s win can be attributed the working class.
Kopan said, “He fared strongly among the many voters concerned with the economy and won big margins in coal industry households.”
Donald Trump won over West Virginia’s Republican population by a landslide, with 77 percent of the votes, reports the The New York Times—Unsurprising, as he’s the only Republican candidate left in the race.
In Nebraska, the primary results were almost identical. Sanders scored a win there back in March, when the Democratic primary was held. And on Tuesday, Trump easily won all the delegates, the Times reports. Sanders’s triumphs over Hillary in a few key states serve as a reminder that he does not plan on dropping out of the race anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the candidates’ competitive and, at times, catty campaign strategies against one another tend to put them in a bad light. Fortune reported that Trump poked and prodded more at former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal, showing how he’s playing dirty to make Clinton look bad, while reminding voters about a part of Clinton’s past in the White House.
As July gets closer, bringing the Democratic National Convention to Philadelphia, the question of who will be competing against Trump in the presidential election needs to be answered.
Now, it is up to voters to decide if they want that answer to Clinton or Sanders.