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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2020 5:23:00 GMT
Winner: Joe Biden By a little after 9 pm, the former vice president had wrapped up three states — Missouri, Mississippi, and Michigan. Of those, Michigan is the really important one: not only a significant delegate haul, but a bitter symbolic defeat for Sanders, whose surprise win there in 2016 showed the strength of his insurgent campaign against Hillary Clinton. It’s hard to overstate how much of a blow this defeat is to the Sanders campaign. He isn’t mathematically eliminated yet, but it’s difficult to imagine any kind of serious comeback at this stage in the race. At this point, the Biden campaign has to be looking forward to the general election. It’s dubious to generalize from primary demographics to general election results, but to the extent that we can, things look promising for Biden. His Michigan win seems to have been powered, in part, by an extremely strong showing among suburban voters — a demographic that, along with black voters, helped Biden win big in Super Tuesday last week as well. It so happens that these suburban voters pulling the lever for moderates is what handed Democrats the House in the midterm elections. “This is what happened in 2018,” the Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey wrote earlier on Tuesday. “A deluge of voters — including many in the suburbs — filed into churches and community centers across the country to vote for a moderate candidate in an act they viewed as a repudiation of the president.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2020 18:37:26 GMT
Who’s leading in the Democratic primaries? Total pledged delegates
Joe Biden 860 Bernie Sanders 710
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are the only major candidates to remain in the Democratic primary race after an initially crowded field gradually winnowed down. Elizabeth Warren was the last major candidate to drop out after a disappointing result on Super Tuesday.
The primaries and caucuses are a series of contests, in all 50 US states plus Washington DC and US territories, by which the party selects its presidential nominee. In these votes, the goal for the Democratic candidates is to amass popular support that translates to a number of pledged delegates.
To secure the nomination, a candidate needs the support of 1,991 pledged delegates. If no candidate has reached this number by the party’s national convention in Milwaukee in July, it is known as a contested or brokered convention. The nominee is then chosen in a more complex voting system that also involves unpledged delegates – known as ‘superdelegates’ – who can vote their conscience.
The nominee will eventually face Trump in the general election on 3 November.
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2020 2:04:58 GMT
Watch Vice President Biden speak as results come in on primary night.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to win the Democratic nod in Florida as President Donald Trump is projected to win in Florida for the GOP.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will win the Illinois and Florida Democratic primaries, CNN projects, victories that will allow him to substantially expand his delegate lead over Vermon Sen. Bernie Sanders as they vie for the Democratic nomination.
Florida, Illinois and Arizona were the three states where voters headed to the polls Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. Tuesday's promaries come at a time when state and local officials are clearly conflicted about the ethics of asking Americans to leave their homes as many are anxious and self-isolating in an effort to slow the spread of novel coronavirus.
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Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2020 5:05:37 GMT
Wisconsin's in-person primary election is on for Tuesday, but several last-minute orders and court rulings have thrown chaos into the process, hours before polls are scheduled to open. On Monday, the state Supreme Court overruled the governor's order to postpone Tuesday's election and ordered it to proceed apace. There could be further court challenges, as the hours dwindle before polls are scheduled to open. Citing public health concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a last-minute executive order earlier Monday to reschedule the statewide election to June 9. "Frankly, there's no good answer to this problem—I wish it were easy. I have been asking everyone to do their part to help keep our families, our neighbors, and our communities safe, and I had hoped that the Legislature would do its part—just as the rest of us are—to help keep people healthy and safe," said Evers in a statement Monday. Separately, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order Monday evening saying that absentee ballots need to be submitted in-person or postmarked by April 7 to be counted. The order overturns a lower court order that had allowed absentee voting to be extended for six days because of coronavirus concerns. Localities around the state were scrambling to prepare for in-person voting with DIY safety equipment. Last week, the state said in a legal filing it had asked the National Guard to offer up Guard members to replace some of the 7,000 poll workers who said they would no longer turn up. Evers, a Democrat, had resisted changing the date of the primary because many local offices on the ballot have terms that start in April. State law also says only the state legislature can change the date of the election. Under the executive order, officials whose terms are set to expire this month will state in office until the new election. The governor's move came after the GOP-dominated state legislature refused to change the date or shift the election to all mail-in ballots. Evers called an emergency session of the legislature over the weekend but GOP leaders gavelled the session in and out without taking any action.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2020 19:52:08 GMT
Former President Barack Obama played an active, albeit private, role in the Democratic presidential primary that effectively ended on Wednesday when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race.
Obama and Sanders spoke multiple times in the last few weeks as the Vermont senator determined the future of his campaign, a source familiar with the conversation tells CNN. Sanders' decision to get out on Wednesday paves the way for Joe Biden, who served as Obama's vice president for eight years, to become the Democratic nominee.
Obama's eventual endorsement of Biden and fulsome entry into the campaign, whenever it occurs, will signal a new phase in Democrats' efforts to defeat President Donald Trump. But the former president backing his one-time running mate is all but a forgone conclusion at this point.
Obama's endorsement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 was highly choreographed, even though it happened in June, more than a month before Sanders officially backed the eventual Democratic nominee.
Although Obama remained relatively mum throughout the primary, only speaking out a handful of times before voters began casting ballots in 2020, the former president was closely monitoring the debate and had regular conversations with candidates before, during and after their respective bids.
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