A resurgent Joe Biden swept at least nine states on Super Tuesday in a stunning comeback that transformed the Democratic nomination race into a two-man contest against Bernie Sanders.
The former vice-president won the key state of Texas — the second-biggest prize of the night — along with Massachusetts in the northeast, Minnesota in the upper midwest, Oklahoma, and Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas across the south.
Fourteen states, including the two most populous, were holding primary elections on Super Tuesday as part of the race to determine who will face President Donald Trump in the November presidential election.
Trump is largely uncontested in Republican primaries. Wednesday morning’s results are likely to narrow the Democratic race significantly, although the eventual winner may not be chosen for several more weeks — or even months.
There were 1,344 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday out of a total of almost 4,000.
With votes still being counted at 9am CET, the Associated Press projected 438 for Biden, 369 delegates to Sanders, 45 to Warren, 39 to Bloomberg and one for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
“People are talking about a revolution. We started a movement,” Biden said in Los Angeles, mocking one of Sanders’ signature campaign lines.
Sanders swiped back. “You cannot beat Trump with the same-old, same-old kind of politics,” he declared, ticking down a list of past policy differences with Biden on welfare, trade and military force. ““This will become a contrast in ideas.”
Stunning Comeback For Biden
Biden turned his campaign around in the South Carolina primary over the weekend.
He had underperformed in several early states including Iowa and New Hampshire that have historically been important indicators of who the frontrunner candidates are.
But many observers said his campaign was effectively saved by his success in South Carolina, after which several candidates dropped out of the race.
“South Carolina was clearly enough because several of the other candidates have dropped out as a result because if they couldn’t beat Biden in that state then you could pretty much write off states with larger concentrations of black voters,” said Andre M Perry, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.
Biden ended up winning Minnesota, the state where former candidate Amy Klobuchar is a senator. Klobuchar endorsed the former vice president after dropping out of the race.
“We won Minnesota because of Amy Klobuchar, and we’re doing well in Texas because of Beto O’Rourke,” said Biden while speaking to supporters in Los Angeles.
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