That’s A Wrap!
Well, it’ll still be days or weeks before we have the full vote total in California, and it’s still too close to call in Maine, but with Texas now in the win column for Biden, this evening’s top-line takeaway is even clearer: Biden mounted a comeback and won Super Tuesday.
In total, Biden won nine of the 15 primary contests at stake tonight, pulling off a number of upset victories, including a win in Minnesota (we’d projected Sanders would win there), a win in Massachusetts (Sanders again), and a win in Texas (that was more of a toss-up going into tonight), but basically Biden cleaned up across the board. He performed well in states where he wasn’t even really competing, and he proved he’s more than a regional candidate.
Sanders, on the other hand, did not have a great evening. He won just three states outright (Colorado, Utah and Vermont) and underperformed expectations. So far, he does seem on track to win delegate-rich California, though we won’t know the exact margin for a while yet.
Once all the Super Tuesday results are fully counted, 38 percent of delegates will have been awarded in the primary race, but this nomination fight is far from over, and there’s a real question about where it will go from here.
To relive the liveblog in all its chronological glory, scroll back through, but if that’s too much work, here are some headlines from the live blog crew:
- Nate: Biden Is The Favorite For The Nomination, Just Like We Said in January (Hopefully You Slept Through February?)
- Geoffrey: Super Tuesday Was A Big Effing Deal For Joe Biden
- Clare: Biden His Time No More: Joe's Super Tuesday Landslide (mine is a New York Post headline)
- Nathaniel: Biden’s Momentum Continues With A Coalition-Expanding Super Tuesday Win
- Kaleigh: Biden Surge Continues Through Super Tuesday, With Sanders On His Tail
- Micah: Biden Pulls Off Historic Turnaround -- He And Sanders Battle For Nomination
- Meena: Democrats Winnowed The Field -- To Biden And Sanders
Watch our reaction podcast here:
https://youtu.be/B2BeGiIbByc