Super Tuesday: Biden ahead with wins in eight states.
Former vice president confirms favoritism in southern states, while Bernie Sanders is expected to lead in California, the state with the most delegates
Former US Vice President Joe Biden won the Democratic primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Minnesotta, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia on Tuesday , while Bernie Sanders won in Vermont. , where he is a senator, and also in Colorado and Utah, according to media projections after the polls closed.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won in American Samoa, a small territory in the Pacific. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator, does not appear in the lead in any state. Apparently, the two should review their candidacies soon due to the low number of votes.
Democratic voters from fourteen states speak out in what is known as Super Tuesday to elect the candidate who will challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November elections.
After the polls closed, media projections gave Biden victory in the Virginia primary, a state that brings 99 delegates to the Democratic convention, which in July will elect the party’s presidential candidate. North Carolina, with a relatively large black population, grants 110 delegates to the convention.
Alabama, with 52 delegates, gave an easy victory in 2016 to Hillary Clinton, finally confirmed as a Democratic presidential candidate.
Meanwhile, Sanders, who tries to maintain the lead after winning in New Hampshire and Nevada and ending up almost tied in Iowa, won in Vermont, where he is a senator, adding sixteen delegates, always according to press projections. Don't use plagiarised sources.Get your custom essay just from $11/page
On “Super Tuesday” fourteen states vote – in addition to the unincorporated territory of American Samoa and Democrats residing abroad – to elect 1,357 delegates to the July Democratic convention, a third of the total.
At least 1,991 delegates are required to obtain the party’s presidential candidacy.
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After a major South Carolina primary victory on Saturday, Barack Obama’s former vice president on Monday received the support of three former pre-candidates: Senator Amy Klobuchar, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke and former Mayor Pete Buttigeg.
O’Rourke had abandoned the dispute in November, but Klobuchar announced his withdrawal on Monday and Buttigeg last Sunday.
The departure of the moderates further reduced the number of candidates for the Democratic White House candidacy, and paved the way through the center for Biden, who according to polls has a good chance of beating Donald Trump in November.
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The new support for the former vice president strengthened a center postulant to defeat Sanders, on the left, who had so far led the dispute over the nomination, something that worried the party establishment.