UPDATE: Bernie Sanders Wins the Idaho Democratic Caucus

UPDATED: 11:46 PT

After losing the Arizona primary, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won big in the state of Idaho.

Sanders won with 70 percent of the votes to Hillary Clinton's 21.1 percent. With the win, Sanders adds 17 delegates to his count. Clinton won five, but she is still leading in both the number of pleged delegates and super delegates.

UPDATED: 10:23 PT

Sen. Bernie Sanders is holding a big lead against Hillery Clinton at the Boise, ID caucus site, the biggest caucus in the state, after the initial vote. Sanders is leading at 80 percent to Clinton's 19 percent. Idaho caucus is a two-vote caucus.

A second vote is currently underway.

UPDATED: 8:47 PT

Long lines at the Idaho caucuses. Bernie Sanders is asking supporters to stay in line to vote.

UPDATED: 7:49 PT

Idaho caucus is too early to call.

UPDATED: 7:15 PT

Idaho Democrats delayed caucusing because of long lines.

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ORIGINAL STORY

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders hoped to cut into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lead Tuesday night in the Idaho caucuses.

Up for grabs in Idaho are the state's 27 delegates.

Caucus doors open Tuesday at 6 p.m. MT/5 p.m. PT and close at 7 p.m. MT/6 p.m. PT, according to the Idaho Democratic Party. Click here for more information.

• Check back with Patch as soon as polls close for live Idaho Democratic caucus results.

Sanders spoke to a crowd of about 7,000 people Monday on the campus of Boise State in a last effort to make his case to voters.

“Please do not accept the status quo as something that has to go on forever,” he told the crowd, according to Idaho Statesman. “We can make change. If we have a vision of where we want to this country to go. If we do not allow Donald Trump and the others to divide us up.”

State polling has been sparse. The latest, according to RealClearPolitics, was conducted in mid-February by Idaho Politics Weekly and showed Sanders essentially in a statistical tie with Clinton.

Sanders led Clinton 47 to 45 percent, but the poll had a 4-percent margin of error.

Heading in to Tuesday, Clinton held a pledged delegate lead of 1,147 to 830. Her 467 superdelegates, compared to Sanders' 26, give her a massive advantage in the Democratic race.

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