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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has won the Democratic primary in California, the "Super Tuesday" state with the largest number of delegates to July's Democratic National Convention (DNC), NBC News projected on Thursday.
With 88 percent of the vote in, Sanders leads with 34.3 percent of the vote, while former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in second place with 27.6 percent.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are in third and fourth places, respectively, with 13.3 percent and 12.9 percent. Both of them have dropped out of the race.
California has 415 delegates at stake. Currently, Sanders picked up 202 delegates from the state to Biden's 148, according to NBC News.
Despite winning the biggest prize of Super Tuesday's Democratic primaries, which occurred nearly two weeks ago, Sanders only grabbed three other states out of 14 votings on that day, trailing behind Biden.
Overall, Biden is leading the two-man race with 848 delegates compared to Sanders with 695, according to NBC News.
To win the Democratic nomination to challenge sitting President Donald Trump, a candidate must receive support from a majority of all the 3,979 pledged delegates on the first ballot of the DNC, which election officials said must be at least 1,991 delegates.
Biden and Sanders will have a face-off in Washington D.C. on Sunday for a Democratic presidential primary debate.
U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is still in the Democratic primary race but is trailing well behind Biden and Sanders. She is not qualified for the Sunday debate.
(CGTN)
