Super Tuesday: Bloomberg endorses Biden in bid 'to defeat Trump' as Sanders launches fresh attack on frontrunner
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to mock Michael Bloomberg after he dropped out of the Democratic 2020 race and to sow division among progressive candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren following the party’s Super Tuesday primaries, accusing the latter of splitting the vote and damaging her friend and rival’s chances in key regions.
Former US vice president Joe Biden was the big winner as 14 states went to the polls yesterday, completing the comeback he began at last weekend’s South Carolina primary by claiming at least nine key states including Texas, with Maine also projected to be confirmed in his favour.
Sanders did take home the top prize, the delegate-rich state of California, but otherwise secured only three others, an outcome that saw the moderate wing of the party come together emphatically to back Biden.
In the fallout of those contests, Mr Bloomberg held a rally in New York City where he announced he was endorsing Mr Biden.
Mr Sanders, meanwhile, opened fresh lines of attack on Mr Biden as the two gear up for a two-man race going forward.
And, Ms Warren's team suggested she is considering her path forward — with many believing that means she plans on dropping out of the race imminently.
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New poll: Sanders boosted by favourable California forecast as Biden set to take Texas
Here's the latest polling on today's race, which sees Bernie and Joe splitting the two most crucial states between them.
According to those Data Progress numbers below, things are looking good for the old veep: North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma are all set to fall to him too.
Another interesting survey here on how the coronavirus might impact Tuesday's turnout.
Michael Bloomberg is the real unknown when it comes to Super Tuesday
For Indy Premium, Chris Stevenson says the billionnaire former New York City mayor is today's biggest mystery factor.
Those latest numbers not looking good for the candidate.
Beto O'Rourke endorses Biden despite saying he was ‘a return to the past’ just nine months ago
The man who almost robbed Ted Cruz of the Texas Senate in 2018 and who has since become a passionate anti-firearms activist is being accused of hypocrisy over his Diamond Joe endorsement.
Rory Sullivan is here to explain.
What Bernie Sanders’ hometown makes of his chances
Clark Mindock has been to Burlington, Vermont, to see what the locals have to say about their senator's appeal to the nation at large.
“He’s a good tipper, he’s always in a hurry, he’s always busy,” says bartender David Beams.
Dead over a $20 fee, charged $50,000 after losing a child: The horror health stories bringing Americans to Bernie Sanders
This is great from Lucy Gray on why, for many Americans scarred by personal tragedy, healthcare reform is the only issue that matters this year and there's only man whose vision is radical enough to realise real change.
'The appeal of Joe Biden finally makes sense to me after seeing him up close'
Also for Voices, Andrew Buncombe says the secret to understanding the former Obama veep's appeal is seeing him live. Like The Fall.
'I used to be a Bernie delegate here in Alabama - but then I switched'
For Indy Voices, southerner Larisa Thomason says her experience of switching her allegiance five times and donating to six different candidates over the course of the primary season is far from atypical and means that anything could happen today.
Professor who predicted last nine elections says Democrats could face first brokered convention in nearly 70 years
The man who predicted the past nine elections says that the United States may well be staring down its first brokered convention in nearly 70 years.
It’s a prospect that has stirred considerable consternation among Democratic Party officials and voters, many of whom have said their primary concern is beating Donald Trump in November - even as an enthusiastic debate over the future of democratic politics has raged on the campaign trail.
“I think the most likely outcomes are Sanders wins or nobody wins, and for the first time in over 50 years we actually have a convention nominating the candidate,” Allan Lichtman, a political science professor at American University who has predicted elections dating back to 1984, told The Independent.
Why Democrats living abroad have more power on Super Tuesday than anyone else
Here's Louis Staples for Indy100 on the important role expatraites will play in today's proceedings.
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