Trump, Sanders top county in 27 percent primary vote

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tallied wins in Whitman County’s count for the state’s presidential primary.

Trump, the lone remaining Republican candidate, took 69 percent of the vote as of the first ballot count, while previous opponents Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson, all of whom have suspended their campaigns, garnered 28 percent collectively and write-in candidates accounted for three percent of the vote.

Statewide, Trump took 76 percent of the vote. Cruz and Kasich both suspended their campaigns after ballots for the state primary had already been mailed, and Carson suspended his c...