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Bernie Sanders Wins In Indiana, Says Race Is Not Over

INDIANAPOLIS (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Bernie Sanders scored another victory in Indiana Tuesday night, and said his campaign is not over.

Sanders had 53 percent of the vote compared with 47 percent for Hillary Clinton late in the count.

He told The Associated Press that he has won a "great upset victory" in Indiana over Clinton and he expects "more victories in the weeks to come."

"The Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They're wrong," Sanders said in a statement after his Indiana victory. "Maybe it's over for the insiders and the party establishment, but the voters in Indiana had a different idea. The campaign wasn't over for them. It isn't over for the voters in West Virginia. It isn't over for Democrats in Oregon, New Jersey and Kentucky. It isn't over for voters in California and all the other states with contests still to come."

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He said he has an "uphill climb" to the nomination but he's "in this campaign to win and we are going to fight until the last vote is cast."

He said he hoped to take on Donald Trump, who has been called the presumptive Republican nominee after Ted Cruz lost to him in Indiana, and withdrew from the race on the GOP side on Tuesday.

"There is nothing I would like more than to take on and defeat Donald Trump, someone who must never become president of this country," Sanders said.

Sanders also said he wants to debate Clinton in California.

Sanders acknowledged previously that it would be a big challenge to amass enough delegates to catch up with front-runner Clinton.

Sanders spoke in Louisville, Kentucky, Tuesday night before he was announced as the winner, touting his proposals on health care, free college tuition, student loan relief and a national minimum wage of $15.

He went on to differentiate himself from Clinton by saying he had not raised money through big donors or super PACs.

"We have shown the world that we can run a winning national campaign without being dependent on powerful and special interests," Sanders said.

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Sanders said he was winning the vote of people age 45 and under. He said that fact shows that his campaign is fighting for the ideas that are important to the future of the country "and the future of the Democratic Party.''

Sanders traveled the state and spent about $1.5 million in advertising in Indiana against Clinton. The former secretary of state did not air TV ads and did not campaign extensively in Indiana.

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