With over 93 percent reporting, Sen. Bernie Sanders is winning the Indiana Democratic primary election.
Sanders currently has over half of the vote and 43 delegates while Hillary Clinton trails by almost six percent, with 37 delegates.
Students for Bernie Sanders at IU President Caleb Bauer was sitting at home writing a final paper when the results came in. Bauer said the margin exceeded his expectations.
But he expected the win.
“It really vitalizes the movement,” Bauer said.
Before Sanders’ campaign volunteers showed up in Indiana, Bauer said, supporters were canvassing, making calls and registering voters.
“The ground game is what wins elections,” Bauer said. “Bernie has shown that.”
Last week, Bauer welcomed Sanders’ visit at the IU Auditorium with a speech about the candidate’s “Not Me Us” political revolution.
Tonight, the Indiana primary results prove the revolution is not dead, Bauer said, adding he hopes voters in California will support Sanders in their primary.
“Democrats throw around the concept of incremental change a lot,” Bauer said, adding that the Sanders movement is about revolutionary change. “We don’t believe in that concept.”
Bauer said members of the campus-based Sanders campaign group will travel to the Democratic National Convention this summer to protest the DNC’s “blatant favoritism” of the Clinton campaign.
