Local, state Democrats back Sanders in primary

Eighty-five ballots were cast in the Town of Whiting, March 3, 2020, for the hotly contested Democratic Presidential Primary. The majority - forty-six votes (fifty-four percent) - went to Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is making his second run for President. Former Vice President Joseph Biden was supported by eighteen local votes (twenty-one percent).

Results are posted on the Vermont Secretary of State website.

Votes were also received by candidates Michael R. Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren, as well as Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang, who had previously ended their campaigns.

The local percentage figures for the top two finishers were a close match for the statewide tallies. More than fifty percent of the 157,649 Vermont votes cast supported Sanders, while just under twenty-two percent backed Biden.

Statewide, Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator in the neighboring state of Massachusetts, received twelve and a half percent, and Bloomberg received about nine percent.

Vermont voted along with thirteen other states and American Samoa in the "Super Tuesday" primary that, at this moment, appears to have given the Biden the lead in Democratic convention delegates over former frontrunner Sanders.

Town, state Republicans stand with President Trump

On the Republican side, no real challenger has emerged to take the nomination from incumbent President Donald Trump. Nearly eighty-seven percent of the 39,049 Vermonters casting ballots in the Republican Presidential Primary supported Trump. About ten percent backed former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. Less than one percent voted for Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente.

The Town of Whiting had twenty-seven ballots cast in the Republican primary, with twenty-two (eighty-one percent) backing Trump, four (about fifteen percent) supporting Weld and one vote a write-in.