--- title: West Virginia Primary Results: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump description: Real estate mogul Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are expected to win the West Virginia presidential primary Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/4324434/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-primaries-west-virginia/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-10T15:07:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T12:48:08.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Wins West Virginia, Nebraska Primaries og:description: Trump told voters not to bother even going to the polls og:url: https://time.com/4324434/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-primaries-west-virginia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7da01cd9b5a9f622/698892ac524fc079fcdf7ef8/trump-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1960 og:image:height: 1103 og:image:alt: trump-sanders og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Wins West Virginia, Nebraska Primaries twitter:description: Trump told voters not to bother even going to the polls twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7da01cd9b5a9f622/698892ac524fc079fcdf7ef8/trump-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Win West Virginia Primaries, Trump Takes Nebraska > Sponsored content. 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Brief is TIME's Washington newsletter, written by senior correspondent Philip Elliott. It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. It reaches 85,000 subscribers with a 37.0% open rate as of August 2026. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:48 PM UTCPublished: May 10, 2016 3:07 PM UTC  From left: Donald Trump on May 3, 2016 in New York City and Bernie Sanders on May 3, 2016 in Louisville, Ky. From left: Donald Trump on May 3, 2016 in New York City and Bernie Sanders on May 3, 2016 in Louisville, Ky.Spencer Platt, John Sommers II—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:48 PM UTCPublished: May 10, 2016 3:07 PM UTC Donald Trump has won the West Virginia and Nebraska Republican primaries according to the Associated Press, while Bernie Sanders won the West Virginia Democratic primary. Trump was expecting an easy win in West Virginia while Hillary Clinton faced a tough road to victory after comments that damaged her with the coal miners of the state. Trump [told West Virginia voters to stay home](http://time.com/4320484/donald-trump-west-virginia-primary-stay-home/?iid=sr-link1) Tuesday night, but since he’s the only Republican candidate left, that didn’t keep him from coasting to victory in the state. “Get ready, because you’re going to be working your asses off,” Trump crowed of his future presidency to the state’s miners at a rally last week. (Nebraska is also holding its Republican primary Tuesday; the Democrats held a caucus there in March.) Clinton had a tough road against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in West Virginia, after she said earlier this year that she’d put coal “[out of business](http://time.com/4316021/hillary-clinton-coal-out-of-business-apology/?iid=sr-link2).” The former Secretary of State has since apologized for the comment, saying it was “out of context,” but [a RealClearPolitics poll average](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wv/west%5Fvirginia%5Fdemocratic%5Fpresidential%5Fprimary-5425.html) showed her six points behind Sanders in the state (the average is only based on two surveys). It’s an especially dramatic slide for Clinton since she won the state by 41 points against then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008. “I know my chances are pretty difficult, to be honest,” Clinton said Monday in Williamson, W.Va., [the _Hill_ reports](http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/278736-west-virginia-is-no-longer-clinton-country). Still, the primary season is all but over. 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