Super Tuesday: Former Vice President Joe Biden performed well in the Southern states and surged to victories in Massachusetts and Minnesota. His rival Bernie Sanders, claimed a sizeable win in California.
A total of Fourteen states held primary elections in Super Tuesday contests, which include California and Texas, that award the most delegates.
The Super Tuesday came amid interesting developments in the Democratic Party, Joe Biden secured endorsements of Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Both dropped out of the contest just before the Super Tuesday.
This resulted in a boost for Biden, and he surged across the US. Though Bernie Sanders did not claim a quantitative victory in all the states, he won the biggest contest, that is California.
Bernie’s win gave him a much needed after Biden swept the Southern states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg and Senator Elizabeth Warren showed poor results in all the states.
Joe Biden also won the second biggest contest, the democratic primary in Texas. It came as a surprising victory as Bernie Sanders had hoped to win the state, which happens to have a large Latino population.
The two candidates, Bernie and Joe, emerged as forerunners in the race for the Presidential nomination on Tuesday.
Both presented different visions for the democratic party, Bernie Sanders, who is a socialist and progressive candidate in the race. Meanwhile, Biden, who has more of a moderate agenda.
Senator Elizabeth Warren stood third in her home town and failed to cross the 15% threshold in other states.
Bernie took an expected home win in Vermont and followed wining Colorado and Utah.
Though Biden’s victories in African American states also complemented his win in South Carolina and challenged Sanders, who went on Super Tuesday with a narrow lead.
The former NewYorker mayor Bloomberg appeared for the first time on ballet, did not see his investment in the campaign bear fruit.
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He has spent a considerable sum, won in the state of Samoa, which only has six delegates to offer but failed to receive any delegates in Virginia where he spent more than 18 million dollars.
He was also struggling to cross the 15% threshold required to net delegates in North Carolina.
Bloomberg said to his supporters
As the results come in here’s what is clear: no matter how many delegates we win tonight, we’ve done something no one else thought was possible,”
Super Tuesday is the most critical voting day in the democratic primary race. Millions of voters across the country come out of the vote for the candidate they want to see taking on Donald Trump in November.
Bernie dominated California with the support of Liberals and Latinos. But the contest changed in the last 72 hours, the rise of Biden due to the endorsements from his rivals.
Amy Klobuchar who dropped out of the race said
If we spend the next four months dividing our party and going at each other, we will spend the next four years watching Donald trump tearing apart this country”
This super Tuesday contest proved out to be a historic election, which party has not witnessed since 1952.
Bernie Sanders has benefitted from the weak opposition. While Bloomberg, Biden, and Warren compete for an overlapping share of the electorate.
Bloomberg lost more than any other candidate on Super Tuesday. Though his support has increased, the recent polls indicate that he lost ground after the highly criticized debate last month. He came under attack for his views on people of color and Women.
Republican primaries also took place on Tuesday, but Trump has no serious competition, the democratic primary was of importance.
