Fritz Sobonja received his “I Voted” sticker from Karen Blackburn. More than 40 percent of the registered county voters came to the polls on March 3 to take part in the Presidential primary vote. Staff photo/Brian Larsen
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders received 376 votes to lead all Democratic presidential candidates in the Cook County primary.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, who dropped out of the race for president one day before the Super Tuesday election, received 339 votes.
Former Vice President Joe Biden picked up 333 votes, Elizabeth Warren got 271, Mayor Pete Buttigeg, who also dropped out of the running this week, picked up 78 votes. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg received 126 votes.
Several candidates, or former candidates, also received votes. Tulsi Gabbard picked up 11, Tom Steyer, who also left the race, won 3, and three other former candidates, Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Marianne Williamson, each received one vote. John Delaney, also out of the race, picked up two votes.
While Sanders picked up more votes in Cook County, Biden won the state after Senator Klobuchar endorsed him and asked her campaign workers to go out and get the vote for Joe.
All told, 1,592 Cook County residents turned out to vote, or about 42 percent of the county’s registered voters, which numbers 3,746. Cook County Auditor/Treasurer Braidy Powers said that newly registered voters hadn’t been tallied up when he was contacted, so the counties voting percentage might drop to 41 or 40 percent.
This was the first time since 1992 that Minnesota held a presidential primary, rather than a party-run caucus.
On the Republican side, President Donald Trump received 370 votes, and there was one write-in vote for William Weld.
The results
As of March 2, 2020, 1,059 candidates have filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president. Despite the robust numbers to pick from, for now, there looks to be three people who will vie for the job, incumbent President Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden, whose campaign is off of life support after racking up more than a half dozen state wins in the Super Tuesday elections.
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