Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders easily won presidential caucuses in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii on Saturday, Politico reports.

He won 73 percent of the vote in Washington, 82 percent in Alaska, and 70 percent in Hawaii.

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"We knew from day one that politically we were going to have a hard time in the Deep South," Sanders said. "But we knew things were going to improve when we headed west."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.