Bernie Sanders won the Utah caucuses on Tuesday, trouncing Hillary Clinton in another predominantly white, Midwestern caucus state.
Although polling in the state was scarce, the few polls available showed Sanders steadily gaining an edge on Clinton.
Over the past week, Sanders has held numerous campaign events in Utah, even drawing over 14,000 supporters to a rally in Salt Lake City last Friday. He also gave a major foreign policy speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. in lieu of an AIPAC speech, in Utah on Monday.
In an attempt to capture the majority of the state’s 38 delegates, the Sanders campaign spent $234,000 on ads in Utah. By comparison, Clinton spent very little time in the state and spent no money on ads in Utah.
Leading up to the caucuses the former secretary of state received a boost from endorsements by the state’s highest ranking democrats- Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams.
The win ends a recent losing streak for Sanders against Clinton in the primaries.
