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.
I think so too. And if Michelle Obama would be the VP nominee, the mainstream media will go nuts thinking about it, and will be hammering on DJT non-stop.
It'll lock in Minnesota, make Michigan and Pennsylvania and probably Wisconsin even more in play, attract support among suburban women, set her up as heir apparent in four years, and placate independents more than some flaming progressive would. If he wins Joe's a one-term president at best. People will be looking at his veep choice very closely.
I think so too. And if Michelle Obama would be the VP nominee, the mainstream media will go nuts thinking about it, and will be hammering on DJT non-stop.
As VP, Kamala Harris could be given his Power of Attorney. She's an attorney. "Don't worry about Joe's dementia, he won't be allowed to do anything!"
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Not enough, not even close. The DNC establishment selected Biden. Hes the nominee. I dont think he was their first choice, but they settled on him after Harris and Warren imploded.
I would. Some are “Party before Country” types, for sure, but I would say the vast majority of Bernie Bros will sit it out.
Most of these idiots wear their politics on their sleeves and virtue signal online. Hard core progressives are worried about looking like hypocrites by voting establishment after they spent the last year assailing it. So it makes sense to me that they’d follow thru and do a write-in or go 3rd party or sit it out.
Meanwhile, it’s going to be very difficult to defend Biden in the coming months.... I’m sure Team Trump is licking its chops right now!
Sanders isn’t out yet, I’d like to see what states are left that he will win and the delegates. Biden may squeak thru but his problem is that he will be forced to speak at the debates with 3 fewer people and his mumbling will cause concern
DNC = CPUSA
They’re ALL communists.
Voter Fraud by DNC/CPUSA party is Trump’s ONLY opponent in 2020.
If Biden is nominated, Bernie bots stay home.
I wouldnt count on it.
I think that many of the Bernie Bot basement dwellers will stay home on election day. Bernie appeals to the young “free stuff” crowd. This group tends to skip voting anyway. Bernie excited them over the prospect of “student loan forgiveness”, which Biden hasn’t offered them (yet).
I have Bernie with more Delegates coming out of CA. Unless Biden completely runs the table, I don’t see him getting to 1993.
Well there’s some territories and about what 34 state primaries left? I know Bernie will win more than a few of them; I think he may take NY but not Pa. I think he’ll take Arizona and New Mexico and Washington and Oregon. He’ll take Alaska I think. Florida is gone for Bernie and the rest of the south. Yet Bernie openly courts Hispanics with ads in the spanish language so perhaps Louisiana and Missippi might not be so lost....it would be a test of Bernie’s Hispanic strength in La. and Miss. verses Biden’s blacks. Georgia, too will be interesting to watch in terms of Bernie’s Hispanics vs Biden’s blacks. Bernie is loved in the Ga. college towns.
It will be about 45 Bernie vs 55 Biden total votes(with Bernie having won some very key states in terms of their superdelegates) when it all shakes out; and when the super delegates start to weigh in, that’s when the trouble really starts. Bernie will stay in right to the bitter end and so will his supporters....it will be at least a VP slot or riots!
I don’t see Biden getting 1993 as well. Washington and Oregon are very Bernie friendly and so are NY and New Mexico. California Bernie lovers will go Bat-guano crazy id they think Bernie gets the shaft. They would settle for a vp slot at least.
Tulsi got a delegate? Then all is well.
I listened to some of Sanders’ speech last night. He said that the working family is tired of the upper 1% getting the rewards off the labor of the worker. No mention of how the working family is tired of illegal aliens receiving rewards off the labor of the common person? Sanders, like most Democrats, is delusional. Just look at Bloomberg’s ads with a “vote for Mike is a vote for women” or Abdul the community organizer. Building divisiveness: the Democrat party slogan.
I'm not confident that Bernie won't sell out again.
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