Joe Biden made a major comeback in the Democratic nomination race for Super Tuesday and appears to be leading the pack ahead of Bernie Sanders, according to results still provisional on Wednesday morning March 4.
Vice President of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, Joe Biden leads in nine states out of the fourteen who voted Tuesday to choose the Democratic candidate who will face Donald Trump next November. But Vermont senator Bernie Sanders resisted and seemed to be taking it to California, by far the most important state of the day.
Illustration of this comeback, Joe Biden, after a neck and neck full of suspense, snatched from Bernie Sanders the State of Texas, a large pool of delegates. He is now on the rise in primaries for which "Bernie" was favored two weeks ago.
"Super-Tuesday" therefore balances the race for the Democratic nomination between the two men and excludes the other candidates from the competition: Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren are very far behind.
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Joe Biden's "good evening"
From Maine to California, millions of Americans have gone to the polls to help nominate Donald Trump's opponent – who will run for a second four-year term on November 3. Tuesday's primaries will distribute more than a third of the delegates (out of a total of 3,979) who will nominate their candidate at the Democratic convention in July.
Joe Biden, 77, outpaced his great rival, Bernie Sanders, 78, in nine states: Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Sanders won in Colorados, Utah and Vermont, where he was elected senator. Maine seems to lead Joe Biden, and California Bernie Sanders, but the results of these two states are not yet certain.
In an address to Essex Junction, Vermont, Bernie Sanders reiterated, true to his fighting style, his certainty of achieving final victory. "I tell you with absolute confidence: we are going to win the Democratic primaries and we are going to beat the most dangerous president in the history of this country", he launched in front of an enthusiastic crowd, multiplying the spades towards his rival without ever naming him.
"It's a good evening!, welcomed Joe Biden early in the evening. And it looks like it will get even better! It’s not called Super Tuesday for nothing. " "Just a few days ago, the media and commentators had declared the death of this candidacy. Well I’m here to say: we’re alive ”, he added under the cries and applause of his supporters in California.
Bloomberg and Warren very late
The big loser of the evening is the billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who started very late in the race but hoped, thanks to his immense personal fortune, to thwart the forecasts.
Far behind his opponents, he particularly obtained mediocre results in Virginia, an emblematic state in which he had invested heavily. "I need your help and I need your votes", he said from Palm Beach, Florida, amid mounting speculation that he will soon withdraw from the race.
The other cruel setback is that suffered by progressive senator Elizabeth Warren, who had a terrible night, even losing in his Massachusetts fiefdom. If she has not yet announced her withdrawal, her dream of becoming the first president of the United States seems to have definitively gone.
An alliance against Sanders is emerging
After a catastrophic start, Joe Biden thus managed an exceptional recovery by winning largely on Saturday South Carolina and his African-American vote considered essential for any pretender Democrat. In the process, he garnered the support of three ex-candidates on Monday: the young Pete Buttigieg, revelation of the primaries, the senator Amy Klobuchar, popular in the Midwest, and the Texan Beto O’Rourke.
Joe Biden, an old road man in American politics, introduces himself as the man of the "Guaranteed results" in front of "The promise of revolution" of his great rival who claims to be "Socialist".
The candidates who have withdrawn in favor of the former vice-president hope to allow him to block "Bernie". " It's not a secret ", "There is a big effort to stop Bernie Sanders", repeats the latter, promising to "Fight" the Democratic establishment, scared of its far-left ideas.
Raising the example of Hillary Clinton in 2016, her team warns of another defeat if Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate. "The establishment wanted a moderate candidate then, they got it. And you know what we got? Donald Trump », the senator's advisor Jeff Weaver launched on MSNBC on Tuesday.
