WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest news on the Democratic presidential primaries and Super Tuesday (all times are local):
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Joe Biden won the Democratic Party presidential primaries in Texas. The state had 228 delegates up for grabs, the second most coveted state of the night.
More than two million people had voted in the state prior to the opening of polling places for Super Tuesday. The state, with a clear republican tradition, is increasingly democrat due to demographic changes.
Biden held a rally in Dallas on Monday night, where he appeared with two of his new supporters, former rivals Amy Klobuchar and Beto OâRourke. Pete Buttigieg also backed the former vice president earlier in the night in Dallas.
Biden also won in the Massachusetts, Arkansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Virginia primaries. Bernie Sanders took California, Utah, Vermont and Colorado.
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Bernie Sanders wins the California Democratic Party presidential primary election. The state offers 415 delegates to the race, the highest total on the electoral map.
Sanders’ campaign has long seen the country’s most populous state as a key player in the race, so it has had a large number of volunteers organizing events across the state. Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries to Hillary Clinton and hoped to recover with what would be the crowning moment for the progressive movement in the state.
Sanders has also won in Utah, Vermont, and Colorado. Joe Biden has wins in Massachusetts, Arkansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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Joe Biden wins the Massachusetts Democratic Party presidential primary election, which offers 91 delegates to the race.
Massachusetts was seen as a mandatory win for local candidate, State Senator Elizabeth Warren, and electoral authorities predicted a huge turnout.
Nearly 230,000 voters took advantage of last week’s early voting, the first time the entity allows early voting in a presidential primary.
Biden has won Arkansas Minnesota, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Virginia. Bernie Sanders has wins in Utah, Vermont and Colorado.
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Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic Party presidential primary election in Utah, which offers 29 delegates to the race.
Sanders is hugely popular with leftist voters in the state.
Democratic primaries are open in Utah, so the electorate can vote regardless of party affiliation. Some within the Republican majority have not fully embraced President Donald Trump, and the moderates saw an opportunity to lure undecided voters by offering them what they describe as the best opportunity to unseat the president.
Sanders also has wins in Vermont and Colorado. Joe Biden has won in Arkansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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Joe Biden won the Democratic Party presidential primary election in Arkansas, a state that brings 31 delegates to the race.
The firmly Republican state has received great interest from Democratic pre-candidates who have filled the media with announcements and messages of support. Last year, the Arkansas Republican Legislature voted to move the state primaries in presidential election years from May to March.
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Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primaries in Minnesota.
The state contributes 75 delegates to the race.
The abrupt withdrawal of Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar from the presidential race gave Bernie Sanders a sudden opportunity to take over the state on Super Tuesday. However, Biden won after receiving Klobuchar’s endorsement.
Sanders easily won the Minnesota caucuses in 2016 and has a large and motivated progressive base in the state, offsetting Klobuchar’s alleged home advantage in a contest that was seen to be getting tighter before he left his campaign on Monday.
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Joe Biden won the Democratic Party presidential primary election in Tennessee, a state that brings 64 delegates to the race.
The deadly tornadoes recorded the previous night delayed the start of Super Tuesday in Nashville and another Tennessee county, prompting election officials to redirect the electorate from some voting centers to alternative locations.
In a state where Republicans hold all important public offices, including seven of the nine seats in Congress, Democratic voters have a history of being more moderate than those of other states.
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Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primaries in Oklahoma.
The state contributes 37 delegates to the race.
Bernie Sanders won the primary election in Oklahoma in 2016, against Hillary Clinton.
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Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Party presidential primary election in Colorado, a state that brings 67 delegates to the race.
It was Colorado’s first primary election in 20 years, and Sanders’ victory shows how much the Democratic Party can draw the independents, who remain the largest voting bloc in a state that has moved to the left in recent elections. .
Colorado held primaries from 1992 to 2000 and then stopped doing them to save money. In 2016, the electorate approved reinstating the primaries, after complaining about the caucus system with thousands of district meetings to begin electing presidential candidates.
In 2016, Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the state’s Democratic caucuses and has since maintained an enthusiastic base there.
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Joe Biden won the Alabama Democratic presidential primary.
The state contributes 52 delegates to the race.
Black voters dominate the Democratic state’s electorate, and Biden and Democratic pre-candidate Mike Bloomberg split support for the entity’s largest black political coalitions. The Alabama New South Coalition endorsed Biden, while the Alabama Democratic Conference supported Bloomberg.
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Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary election in North Carolina.
The state contributes 110 delegates to the race and is one of the states without a clear favorite ahead of the presidential elections in November.
Voting is ongoing in other parts of the nation, including California, the state with the largest number of delegates at stake.
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19:18
Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Party presidential primaries in Vermont.
Vermont brings 16 delegates to the race and is Sanders’ state of residence. In 2016, Sanders obtained more than 85% of the state’s votes during the Democratic primaries against Hillary Clinton.
Sanders leads an election rally at Essex Junction.
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Joe Biden wins the Democratic Party presidential primary election in Virginia.
His victory comes as polling stations begin to close in some other states during Super Tuesday. Voting is ongoing in other parts of the country, including California, which is the day’s biggest prize.
Virginia brings 99 delegates to the race. It has been considered as an indefinite state that increasingly leans more to the left.
The results of the Democratic primaries in Virginia, with its diverse electoral territory of rural, urban, and suburban voters, could be a key indicator of which Democrat will be chosen to face President Donald Trump in the November presidential election.
