What Went Down In The Arizona, Florida And Illinois Primaries

We’ll see what happens in Arizona, I guess, Sarah, but I think the question now isn’t so much whether Sanders has a real shot to win but what is best for his movement. It would not seem like taking a bunch of 20-and 30-point losses would improve its credibility.

So if tonight proves to be a rout for Biden as we saw in Florida (ABC News still hasn’t made a projection in Illinois but the AP already called it for Biden), where does that leave Sanders? As Kaleigh mentioned earlier, Sanders needs to meet a certain threshold tonight to stay in the race, right? Because otherwise, won’t there be a lot of pressure for him to drop out? Or does he have other reasons to stay in?

Illinois is the only state voting today that has other races on the ballot, like Senate, House and state legislative offices. After today, 27 states will have held their presidential voting event (primary or caucus), but only seven will have held their primaries for down-ballot offices concurrently with their presidential primaries. Alabama, Arkansas, California, North Carolina and Texas did on Super Tuesday, Mississippi did on March 10 and then Illinois today. Ohio would have been on this list but it postponed its primary.