Biden's win in Illinois adds to an earlier win in Florida as he tries to seal the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Illinois allocates 155 pledged delegates, the second biggest haul of the states voting on Tuesday. Biden will take at least 61 delegates, while Sanders will win at least 37, according to NBC.
Illinois pledged to go ahead with its primary despite Ohio, another state set to hold a primary on Tuesday, delaying in-person voting. Illinois said it had taken precautions including working to sanitize polling places and encouraging voters to cast early and mail-in ballots. In a statement Monday afternoon, Illinois Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich said the state had seen 504,000 early votes cast and 294,000 mail ballots sent to voters, up from 400,000 and 160,000, respectively, in 2016.
In explaining why Illinois moved forward with the election, he said "there is no date in the foreseeable future when we can expect greater safety with any certainty."Voters in Illinois have concerns about economic damage as the coronavirus pandemic rages, according to a primary poll conducted by news networks before Election Day. They did not take regular in-person exit polls because of coronavirus outbreak fears.
Roughly 82% of voters in Illinois are either "very" or "somewhat" worried about the direction of the economy in the next year, according to the survey.It is unclear when Biden can finish his push to likely clinch the Democratic nomination, or if the Democratic National Committee will even hold its July convention as planned. A handful of states have already delayed their primaries.
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