Super Tuesday Results 2020: Live Updates
We’re a long way from the Sanders-dominant Super Tuesday that was expected last week. With Joe Biden soaring
in polls following his win in South Carolina and moderate candidates
Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar rallying behind him, the former
vice-president has the momentum (and Establishment support) on his side
that he’s been missing for months. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is
still the polling front-runner — though his lead dipped by almost ten points in less than a week, he maintains a significant edge in
California, the state with the greatest haul of delegates. Meanwhile,
the candidacies of Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg could depend
on reaching the 15 percent minimum for delegates. We’re tracking the
results as they come in, as well as providing commentary and analysis,
via live updates below.
Biden is projected to win in at least nine states, and Sanders to win four
As
of 3:00 a.m., Biden is projected to win Virginia, North Carolina,
Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Texas,
and possibly Maine while Sanders is projected to take Colorado, Utah, Vermont, and California. Biden currently leads Sanders in the total delegate count by 56, though there are a lot of votes left to be counted before the final distribution will be clear. Biden is expected to pull in the most delegates from Super Tuesday states regardless. The popular vote count
as of around 1:00 a.m. shook out to 3.8 million votes for Joe Biden,
2.9 million votes for Bernie Sanders, 1.5 million votes for Michael
Bloomberg, and 1.4 million votes for Elizabeth Warren.
Biden is projected to win Texas
Dave
Wasserman, an editor at Cook Political Report and contributor to NBC
News, called Texas for Biden while voters were still in line. Around the
time of the call, 30 percent of precincts were reporting, and Sanders had a 2.4-point lead. Just after midnight, Biden passed Sanders with 47 percent of precincts reporting. By 1:45 a.m., Decision Desk HQ and NBC News also called the state for the former vice-president.
It’s close in Maine
Sanders won the state in 2016, though he hasn’t been polling phenomenally there. His signature policy proposal is, however: According to exit polls, 72 percent of voters tonight said they supported Medicare for All. Around 1:15 a.m., the first projection came in calling the state for Biden, though at 2:36 a.m., the Bangor Daily News announced they would not be calling the race tonight.
Also
on the ballot tonight in Maine, voters upheld a recent state law
eliminating philosophical and religious exemptions for mandated
childhood vaccines.
There are reports of massive voting delays in Texas
Voters have reportedly waited for up to five-and-a-half hours to cast their ballots at some sites in Texas. As New York’s Zak Cheney Rice notes, the state is a “voting-rights nightmare,” with some 750 polling sites closed across Texas since 2012.
Bloomberg is reportedly considering dropping out
According to Politico, the billionaire may suspend his campaign as early as Wednesday, following Biden’s commanding performance:
Mike Bloomberg is weighing dropping out as early as Wednesday after losing a string of Super Tuesday states where he invested a fortune in advertising, according to several people familiar with his plans.
While the multi-billionaire former New York City mayor was on track to win delegates, he was roundly beaten by Joe Biden, on whose collapse Bloomberg had been counting.
A Bloomberg spokesperson insisted that no decisions had been made after he left his party in the Palm Beach, Florida convention center late Tuesday.
There’s been a sea change in the 2020 prediction markets
Sanders is projected to win in California
The Associated Press called
the state for Sanders just a minute after polls closed. Voters are
still in line, however, and the percentage of a Sanders win could
change.
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