Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential election: Exit poll

Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images(KIEV, Ukraine) — Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian with no political experience who plays the president on TV, has won Ukraine’s presidential election in a landslide, according to a national exit poll. The poll showed Zelenskiy receiving 73 percent of the vote, sweeping away Ukraine’s incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, who conceded defeat on Sunday. …

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