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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An underrated moment from the California primary
Here's Bernie Sanders with Dick Van Dyke and Public Enemy for your viewing pleasure.
While all manner of Hollywood luminaries took to Instagram yesterday to encourage fellow Californians to cast their vote - from Laura Dern to Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Biel and Sarah Michelle Gellar - most declined to say who they were voting for.
Not so Kirsten Dunst.
'Biden and Sanders are in a cut-throat fight for the right to face Trump - the last thing the Democrats wanted'
For Indy Voices, here's Chris Stevenson on what this all means for the party.
Trump spins Super Tuesday results into anti-Bernie conspiracy
The president is at it again.
‘Complete failure’: Bloomberg humiliated after winning zero states despite spending $559m on campaign ads
Chris Baynes has this report on one of the costliest and most futile vanity projects in human history.
Bloomberg did win five of the six delegates available in American Samoa, however, the Pacific island chain home to some 56,000 voters. Tulsi Gabbard (remember her?) won the other.
Amy Klobuchar congratulates Joe Biden after endorsement delivers Minnesota
The senator's decision to drop out and back Biden no doubt proved key in delivering a Midwestern state Bernie Sanders thought he had a good chance of claiming.
The same is probably true in Texas where another former presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, came out in support of Joe on Monday night.
Here's Klobuchar's verdict on what has just transpired.
Sky News Super Tuesday coverage interrupted by Bernie supporter dancing wildly in US flag shirt
Here's Conrad Duncan on one of the most joyously silly moments of the night you might have missed.
Pure Brent.
Trump savages Jeff Sessions as ex-attorney general faces runoff to win back old Senate seat
In the last hour, the president has hit out at his first attorney general, whom he has never forgiven for recusing himself from handling the Russia investigation in 2017, after it transpired he will have to face a runoff to regain his old Senate seat having failed to win a majority in the Alabama Republican primary contest.
Sessions had won 32.6 per cent with more than half of the votes counted in the race. His closest rival was Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, who won 32.2 per cent.
The pair will likely face each other in a March run-off, the winner of which will go up against Democrat senator Doug Jones, who won a special election in 2017.
Here's Chris Riotta's report.
President says Elizabeth Warren 'selfish' to stay in 2020 race
Trump has also hit out at the Massachusetts senator for splitting the progressive vote.
"Will he ever speak to her again?" he says of Bernie, stirring the pot like gossiping smalltown neighbour.
Here's Sirena Bergman on Warren for Indy100.
US launches airstrike against Taliban hours after Trump claimed he had secured peace
After the giddy excitement of Super Tuesday, we're back to Nightmarish New Normal Wednesday as the US launches an airstrike against the Taliban in Afghanistan mere hours after the president talked to the terrorist organisation's leadership and claimed to have agreed a peace deal.
And there was Ivanka thinking hastily Googling a few choice lines of verse might have clinched it...
Danielle Zoellner has this breaking report.
Republican senator tells Trump to ‘let the professionals do the talking’ on coronavirus
Oh look, the president is being advised to listen to healthcare professionals about the coronavirus and try to be less ignorant by Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee senator who flirted with impeaching him before backing down in cowardly fashion just a month ago.
Here's Conrad Duncan's report.
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