Super Tuesday Lesson: Biden's Back, Big League
Guy Benson
Posted: Mar 04, 2020 9:15 AM
The political world started to get an indication of just how good of a night it would be for Joe Biden just after 8pm ET. Virginia had been called instantly for him an hour earlier, with North Carolina projections following suit at the bottom of the hour; the Tar Heel State was at least supposed to be close. It wasn't. Then Massachusetts was declared too close to call -- not because Elizabeth Warren was in a tight battle to win her home state, but because Biden was locked in a close fight with Sanders. More dominoes started to fall. The South went solidly for the former Vice President, whose strength among black voters and suburbanites dwarfed Sanders' traditional bases of support. When Minnesota fell to Biden (Klobuchar's drop-out and endorsement was clearly decisive), Biden demonstrated that his appeal extended beyond states with heavily African-American primary electorates.
If Minnesota was a tremor, the first real earthquake of the night was Biden winning Massachusetts outright. The landscape shook again when he completed a comeback victory delegate-rich state of Texas. Just as importantly, even where Bernie was winning, Biden was hitting viability thresholds, thus holding down Bernie's delegate hauls. California landed solidly in Sanders' column, as expected, and it his winnings there will certainly help him stay in the thick of the hunt (although the exact margins and delegate count will likely take some time to sort out, given the state's interminable vote-counting process). But the story of the night was Joe Biden's resurgence. He has, in my estimation, reclaimed his national frontrunner status. Here's why:
Dave Wasserman
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Projection: Joe Biden will win the most delegates at stake today and exit Super Tuesday with the overall delegate lead.
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Josh Barro
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I think people are underrating what a disaster these results are for Sanders. He's holding up okay in states where lots of the vote was cast more than a few days ago. That's the past. Biden doesn't need momentum to improve from that position -- he's already improved.
Josh Barro
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Biden can come out of here and mop up the remaining Bloomberg supporters. He won't bleed a few points to Klobuchar or Buttigieg in the remaining states.
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