Biden claims 9 Super Tuesday victories, including Texas

The Associated Press ^ | March 4, 2020 | By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster just days earlier. But his rival, Bernie Sanders, seized the biggest prize with a win in California that ensured he — and his embrace of democratic socialism — would drive the Democrats’ nomination fight for the foreseeable future.

The former vice president showed strength in the Northeast with a victory in Massachusetts. He won delegate-rich Texas in the Southwest, Minnesota in the upper Midwest and finished on top across the South in Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas — in addition to Oklahoma.

Sanders opened the night as the undisputed Democratic front-runner and was in a position to claim an insurmountable delegate lead. And while he scored the night’s biggest delegate-prize in California, he scored just three other decisive victories, winning his home state of Vermont, along with Utah and Colorado.

The other two high-profile candidates still in the shrinking Democratic field, New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, were teetering on the edge of viability. Warren finished in an embarrassing third place in her home state, and Bloomberg planned to reassess his candidacy on Wednesday after spending more than a half billion dollars to score a single victory — in American Samoa.

With votes still being counted across the country, The Associated Press has allocated 438 to Biden, 369 delegates to Sanders, 45 to Warren, 39 to Bloomberg and one for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. The numbers are expected to shift dramatically throughout the night as new states, none bigger than California, report their numbers and as some candidates hover around the 15% vote threshold they must hit to earn delegates.

[zeestephen]

I was going to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Washington state primary.

I did not really want to do that because it switches my Party affiliation to Democrat.

Relieved.

Now I can vote for Bill Weld - wait - I mean President Trump.

[dearolddad]

This can't be! ALLthe polls said Bernie by a bnch!

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

With the MSM talking up Biden for the next weeks Bernie is DONE, I frankly do nor believe the election yesterday was not messed with by the DNC elites I don’t believe for one damn minute that Joe raised himself up out of the ash heap of his horrible campaign without major help from insiders!! I don’t believe for a minute that the primary was an honest one NO WAY!! Our side needs to WAKE UP because the Dems will do anything to win and they did just that yesterday!!

[LeonardFMason]

Exactly right. Biden has gotten a FREE pass.

Every effort should be made now to not allow Biden or his lackeys in the media to describe him as a moderate Democrat. He is, and always has been, a far left politician.

[TheConservator]

Bernie screwed the pooch by praising Fidel.

It made it apparent to all the wavering dim primary voters that he was too far to the left to be electable.

Biden, however, is far too gone with Alzheimers or its equivalent to be electable. I predict he does not last until November, even if he gets nominated.

[rbg81]

It looks like the Deep State/DNC pulled out all the stops.

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I think part of it is Sanders finally started getting the scrutiny he deserved. Also, a lot of Dems sobered up and decided it would be a bad idea for Crazy Bernie to go against Trump in Nov.

That being said, Quid-Pro-Joe won because he is probably the least crazy of the bunch. Even so, he is a very weak and flawed candidate. I look forward to Trump wiping the floor with him in the debates.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

You’re right. Biden won the debate by showing the world what a pushover Paul Ryan was.

[rbg81]

Biden, however, is far too gone with Alzheimers or its equivalent to be electable. I predict he does not last until November, even if he gets nominated.

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It would not surprise me in the least if Biden has an incident or accident after getting the nomination. Then Hillary or Michelle will have to step in.

[laconic]

I remember that debate; I don’t like a thing about Biden but he beat the living tar out of Paul Ryan. The only debate I’ve seen that was more lopsided was when Reagan scored Carter in 1980. Called him “boy”, interrupted and Ryan did not counter punch in the slightest. It was almost as though he threw the debate. Ryan sure lived up to his image from that debate as House Speaker, didn’t he? A real Bush “Republican”.

[HighSierra5]

Let’s hope that Joek has a permanent brain fart. I can’t believe that a party can pin their hope on a candidate that obviously has dementia. But I’ve been wrong many times before.

[Liz]

Nobody has attacked Biden in months because they thought he was dead.

Gee, aint modern medicine grand? A dead man can be revived and run for president.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I just wonder how many days in advance will Biden get the questions.

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Does not matter. Biden can not remember from the time his staff tells him which city and state he is in before he goes to the podium and he forgets it all.

Biden will withdraw just before the convention due to health reasons.

[rbg81]

The big question is: Will the Bernie True-Believers back a “moderate” like Joe?

Right now Joe is running to the Left. However, after July, he will try to go back to the Center. Even so, I do think Joe is relatively moderate. He may be senile, but he is still not as crazy as much of the rest of his Party.

[Erik Latranyi]

This is the DNC shadow leaders ensuring Bernie does not replace them all in a takeover of the party.

Much of Bernie’s campaign is not just about defeating Trump, but about ending the corporate cronyism of the DNC.

They cannot afford to let him take over the party, so Biden is their man. If Biden should defeat Trump, he will be easily controlled.

I predicted Biden would not be the nominee....it looks like I was wrong.

[Erik Latranyi]

The Bernie Bros are going crazy. All the polls told them they were going to have a huge night and that Biden would come in second most places, at best.

Instead, Biden ran the table strongly (I wonder who tabulated the votes) and Bernie was denied.

Bernie supporters will not support Biden strongly. They will be told to support Biden to defeat Trump, but they are not happy.

[mad_as_he$$]

Analysis on Fox this am says the Bernie supporters under 30 years old did not turn out yesterday. I find that very interesting.

[Erik Latranyi]

Bloomberg is a massive flame-out.

He spent half a billion for nothing except to become a joke in the eyes of both political sides.

[nathanbedford]

My comment yesterday that Joe Biden was a "dead Man walking" seems belied by the results across the nation.

Did the rank-and-file Democrats vote for Joe Biden or did they vote against Bernie Sanders? My guess, and it is only that, is they voted largely against Bernie Sanders for mixed reasons.

Fear is a great motivator in elections and I believe the Democrat rank-and-file voted out of fear of what Bernie would produce in the election and what he might even do to the country if he somehow got elected. Of course, there must've been some general belief that Biden was more likely to beat Trump, or more probably, a belief that Sanders was less likely to beat Trump.

I believe there was fear that Bernie would crash the economy, of fear entertained by a sliver of Democrats, probably of older generations, who looked at his spending agenda and recognized a potential national disaster. This generational cohort probably also feared for the down ballot wipeout if Bernie headed the ticket.

I say this because a Bernie Sanders election will be a nationalized election about his revolution, his Marxism, his profligacy. Such a nationalized election will really hurt down ballot Democrat candidates.

Sober Democrats probably understand that Biden is personally and extremely weak candidate, not fit for the job, if not a dead man walking at least a walking gaffe on the hoof, but one who will lose gracefully and one who will not destroy the party in doing so.

As to which one I would like to see as a Democrat candidate, I prefer sleepy Joe who will defeat himself. Bernie will stand up against Trump better in a debate, he makes few gaffes, he has a rabid base who will turn out his vote, but who will stay home when they are deprived the nomination.

Bernie's great liability, of course, is his radicalism which Trump can probably credibly portray as a threat to the nation. Bernie's platform undeniably appeals to a stratum of our society but Trump does not argue issues, he personalizes his opponents Alinsky-style.

Trump will have and has had no difficulty whatsoever personalizing and destroying senile Joe Biden. Apart from hard-core Democrats who would vote for Satan before Trump, Biden has no charisma and no enthusiastic base. His whole campaign will be sabotaged or at least stumbling to election day unsupported by Bernie's rabid base.

The downside of a Biden presidency is less risky than the downside of a Sanders presidency. Trump should win either way.

[mad_as_he$$]

This show is a long way from over. It is only in the third act of at least 10 ten acts more to go.

[WWG1WWA]

I was watching Fox News. They said that the Bernie kids did not show up in numbers.