PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — On Tuesday, Presque Isle residents voted for former Vice President Joe Biden to get the Democratic nomination for president and to maintain the Maine State Legislature’s vaccine law.
Biden won 46 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 25 percent. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in third place with 14 percent.
Seventy percent of Presque Isle voters chose “No” on Question 1, meaning that they wanted to maintain a law crafted by the Maine State Legislature to remove religious and philosophical exemptions for students attending schools and colleges in Maine.
In 2016, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Presque Isle precinct of the Maine Democratic Presidential Caucus with about 58 percent of the vote to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 42 percent.
Donald Trump, who was running in the Maine Republican presidential primary unopposed, won the Presque Isle precinct as well.
