Oxford, England Few people will ever cast a vote for their younger brother in a presidential primary. Larry Sanders has done it twice.

“It’s a rare treat,” Bernie Sanders’ elder brother tells CNN after voting in Super Tuesday‘s Democrats Abroad primary, near his home in Oxford, England. “When I got to color in the box, I colored it in very heavily.”

“There’s a chance that he’ll win – which is just astonishing. Larry adds his low, gravelly tone of voice and unpredictable hand gestures matching those of his brother. There are 17 delegates up for grabs in the ongoing Democrats Abroad primary.

Millions of voters across the Atlantic also entered polling stations on Tuesday, sweeping Joe Biden to a series of stunning victories that forced Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren from the field and reshaped the contest into a two-horse race.

But the elder Sanders, who woke up at six in the morning to follow the night’s results live, is unwavering in his optimism for his brother.

“In my view, he is going to be the Democratic nominee. the 84-year-old says as the final ballots were counted, pride still shimmering from his voice. “An obscure politician from an obscure state is taking on all the elites in the Democratic Party -and at the moment, it’s a stand-off.”

on Tuesday with Larry, who is leading his own intensive campaign in his adoptive country to secure ex-pat support for the man he still calls “Bernard.”

It’s a small but affectionate contribution to the “political revolution” that the firebrand candidate has promised will carry him to the White House -and an interruption to the comparatively obscure life Larry leads in a leafy English suburb. read more

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