Joe Biden wins Hawaii's Democratic presidential primary

Grace Panetta

May 23, 2020 11:23 PM

Former Vice President Joe Biden won Hawaii's Democratic presidential primary.

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2017, file photo Vice President Joe Biden listens during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, where President Barack Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Hawaii's Democratic Party held the primary almost entirely by mail over the course of several weeks due to concerns over the novel coronavirus.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders officially dropped out of the presidential primary on April 8, making Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Though Sanders will stay on the ballot in upcoming primaries and earn delegates from those contests for his representatives to have a seat on important Democratic National Convention committees, he formally endorsed Biden on April 13.

In the Democratic presidential primary, Hawaii allocates 29 pledged delegates to the Convention, with 15 allocated between the state's two congressional districts and nine allocated based on the statewide results.

Here's where Biden and Sanders currently stand in the delegate race, according to Decision Desk HQ and the University of Virginia Center for Politics:

Hawaii was initially slated to hold its primary, which is conducted by the state's Democratic Party, on April 4, but ended up holding the election almost entirely by mail over the course of several weeks due to concerns over the novel coronavirus.

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