Sanders is in Vermont, Biden's making late stops in California, and Warren and Bloomberg are hitting some of the states that vote next. Follow along with our team of political reporters as they track all the news on Super Tuesday.
The rollicking, see-saw Democratic presidential primary has swung back and forth for two weeks — and Tuesday’s mega-primary day could be the most important one yet in the race to take on President Donald Trump.
Listing his three reasons for endorsing the former vice president, O'Rourke asserted that Biden could defeat President Donald Trump in a general election, charged that Biden was best-poised to accomplish Democrats' ambitious policy agenda, and suggested Biden's presence at the top of the ticket could help wrest control of the Texas state legislature from Republicans.
For a sitting senator to paint anyone as a creature of Washington requires a certain pluck. But the presidential primary is quickly narrowing. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — two of Biden’s endorsers — abandoned their campaigns earlier than Warren’s allies had expected. And after her own dispiriting finishes in the early nominating states, Warren is verging on being left behind.
Biden was running far behind Sanders in California in polling ahead of the South Carolina primary. And even with his victory in that state — and the sea of endorsements that followed from the likes of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — he is unlikely to catch him in California.But a relatively low rate of returns in vote-by-mail ballots in California suggested voters were waiting to make up their minds.
Bloomberg’s team wants to see him finish in one of the top spots in the total delegate count by night’s end, but they’ve made no commitments about staying in the 2020 race much beyond that that if Bloomberg isn’t a clear contender. Bloomberg on Monday night didn’t rule out endorsing Biden if it came down to it. He also sounded the alarm on Sanders, calling his policy proposals “crazy.”
Political observers across the spectrum believe Sanders is on track to win California, the biggest delegate prize of the day. His team hopes that and victories and strong finishes in other states will build a delegate lead that will make it difficult, if not impossible, for his rivals to catch up.
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