Former Vice President Joe Biden has taken a big step closer to the Democratic nomination by winning Michigan's primary election.
, as well as Idaho, NBC News projects. Sanders will carry the North Dakota caucus, NBC projects.
As the night's results trickled in and his projected delegate lead over Sanders ticked higher, Biden suggested he had knocked Sanders out of contention and urged the party to unify to beat President Donald Trump in November. Biden led polls of Michigan heading into the day. Sanders, looking for a spark for his campaign, hoped to duplicate 2016, when surveys showed him trailing Hillary Clinton by a wide margin before he narrowly won the state., and not only because it awards 125 pledged delegates, the most of the six states voting on Tuesday. Biden won at least 65 delegates compared to Sanders' 45, according to an NBC tally. With 93% of the vote in Wednesday morning, Biden had 52.
Winning the critical general election state was seen as helping Sanders slow Biden's roll toward the nomination. Biden's bid for the White House was revived when a handful of presidential rivals and a slew of Democratic officials began backing him before and after his victory in the South Carolina primary 10 days ago., along with another state favorable to Sanders in Washington, was expected to all but crush the senator's hopes of winning the Democratic presidential nomination.
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