Correction: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard projected to win at least 1 of American Samoa's 6 delegates, Bloomberg projected to win at least 4 delegates
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won the caucuses in American Samoa - his first win of the night - according to CNN and ABC.
“It feels good and we’re feeling optimistic,” Biden said in Los Angeles after the Virginia win. “I think we’re going to do well in other states as well.”Heading into Super Tuesday, Sanders had led in the earliest states. Sanders narrowly lost Iowa, which had 41 delegates, narrowly won New Hampshire, which had 24 delegates, and decisively won Nevada, which had 36 delegates.
Independent voters who cast ballots in Virginia's election on Super Tuesday split their vote between former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Recent polling had indicated Biden had an edge over his competitors, but Bloomberg poured thousands of dollars into campaigning there.
Then a large wave of states come in at 8 p.m.: Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts and Oklahoma. Tennessee had planned to close at 8 p.m. but some voting locations will stay open longer because of the deadly storms that hit the state early Tuesday. In a potentially bad sign for him, about half the Democratic primary voters in Texas and Tennessee said it’s unfair that candidates can spend unlimited amounts of their own money on their campaigns, according to early results from the NBC News Exit poll.
“I thought Amy had a better chance of beating Trump,” he said Tuesday after casting his ballot. “But I like Elizabeth’s policies.” The ruling came at the request of four of the top Democratic presidential campaigns, along with the Tennessee Democratic Party. The groups filed suit in a Nashville court on Tuesday to extend poll times amid heavy tornado damage throughout the city. A voting-rights group had also urged Tennessee to extend Tuesday’s primary voting in areas damaged by tornadoes.and shredded at least 140 buildings amid violent storms ranging from Texas to North Carolina.
“It’d be a shame if we beat Trump only to put someone in who does not do great things,” Robinson said. Jackie Camerlinck, 53, is a teacher and said she supports Sanders because “I think we need more than just another Obama.” Trump said it looks to him that Joe Biden"has come up a little bit," and repeated his claim that Democrats are somehow conspiring to deny the presidential nomination to Bernie Sanders.
Trump also tweeted out some Super Tuesday thoughts in the early morning, though most of those comments dealt with a third potential opponent: Michael Bloomberg.
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