Still
Posted on 03/03/2020 8:39:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has captured the biggest prize of the Super Tuesday primaries with a first-place finish in California, the Associated Press projects.
Sanders’ west coast win comes as a big relief to the New England senator who lost a majority of the Super Tuesday contest states to former Vice President Joe Biden, who swept the southern primaries with big wins in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Biden has also been declared the winner in Minnesota and Massachusetts, two states where Biden had no presence, while Sanders has only been projected to win Utah, Colorado, and his own home state of Vermont in addition to California.
Biden’s extraordinary wins follow a game-changing 72 hours where Biden, who went into South Carolina as a faltering candidate triumphantly emerged with a re-energized campaign after a 28-point blow out joined by a series of high-profile endorsements from former 2020 rivals and prominent Democrats. On the eve of Super Tuesday, Biden landed support from Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Texas Congressman Robert Francis O’Rourke. Biden also won endorsements from former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.
While Sanders may have captured California in a win of redemption from a poor performance on Tuesday, the size of Sanders’ victory hinges on whether the other candidates will meet the threshold to land delegates to split the 415 delegate spoils in the west coast contest.
No state in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is a winner-take-all contest this year, but candidates must hit 15 percent support statewide to win at-large delegates of 15 percent in congressional districts to score district delegates.
To avoid a contested convention in Milwaukee, the winning candidate must garner 1,991 of the 3,979 delegates in play. More than a third of the total delegates in the race will be decided in the 16 states and territories that voted on Super Tuesday.
bernie got ROCKED!!!
he virtually TIED in TX.
the only reason he’s winning CA is they’re nuts AND bloomie has about 16 percent of the vote.
he is BernT toast
Almost every state I look at..he lost by 15 to 20 or more percent!
he’s over guys.
He is NOT Trump.
He can’t go against the entire dem machine.
Not even remotely.
biden will be the nominee
Go Bernie! Defeat Joe Biden!
It’s going to be Biden/Hillary. That’s my prediction.
Hey, it’s a guess.
So Bernie will take center stage at the next debate...
and Biden will be on one side as an ugly sister er wife no sister...
:)
These freakin’ RATS are absolutely INSANE!!
Results would simply indicate that no first round nominee at the convention and this turns into a brokered episode. Lousy numbers for Bloomberg? It makes it a lesser chance that he’ll be the brokered ‘winner’. It’s strictly Bernie or Joe now.
“Bill and I are deeply saddened to hear of Joe Biden’s stroke.”
Another example showing they can only cheat so much - there’s a limit which can be overcome.
He’s too stubborn to drop out. He’ll stay in.
Most likely, Sanders will not become the Democrat nominee. The power brokers in the Democratic party would rather loose than let Marxists take over. He can cause a contested convention. Even if Biden wins on the first ballot, that still hurts.
If Biden is nominated, Bernie bots stay home. Biden will never match the massive crowds at Trump's rallies.
Two Bad Apples in a virtually empty barrel.
One apple is obviously rotten and wormy.
The other apple is all dried up and quickly falling apart.
“If Biden is nominated, Bernie bots stay home.”
I wouldn’t count on it.
So who leads in the national delegate count now?
We won't know from watching network TV.
The conspiracy theory of the Rat establishment stealing the nomination from Burny should be spread around to make the Burny Bros burn Milwaukee down.
My primary is next Tuesday. I’ll vote for Sanders now that he is #2. Operation Chaos, baby!
go for it!! Any additional delegate wins for Bernie from now on makes this process slower, harder and more bitter.
Texas is the most important because it is winner take all. Who would have thought Puto O’Rouke could drag Biden over the finish line? Bernie won California but no big deal because it is proportional.
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