After a month of early-state contests, the Democratic main is about to go nationwide: Voters in 14 states and one territory will weigh i
After a month of early-state contests, the Democratic main is about to go nationwide: Voters in 14 states and one territory will weigh in on the presidential race this Tuesday, March 3 — Super Tuesday.
Just over a third of all delegates to the Democratic Nationwide Conference in July are up for grabs, together with California’s 415-delegate haul. There are simply 5 candidates left within the race: former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, billionaire Mike Bloomberg, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
Along with California, a big swath of the South — Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia — will vote on Tuesday, as will Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Utah, Texas, and Vermont. The US territory of American Samoa may even caucus Tuesday.
The nationwide scale of Tremendous Tuesday signifies that ballot closings will probably be staggered by time zone throughout the nation. The earliest polls shut at 7 pm Jap — with the doable exception of a fast caucus in American Samoa — and the final, in California, shut at 11 pm Jap.
Nevertheless, it’s seemingly that we received’t see full outcomes from California (and possibly Texas) on the night time of the first.
For Sanders, Tremendous Tuesday is an opportunity to probably lock in an unassailable plurality of delegates with robust performances in California, Texas, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, his standing because the nationwide frontrunner for the Democratic nomination may very well be underneath menace following a robust efficiency by Biden in South Carolina on Saturday.
Moreover, a lot of the reasonable lane — particularly former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar — has exited the race and lent their help to Biden.
Tremendous Tuesday additionally affords a primary electoral check for Bloomberg: Whereas he’s appeared on two debate levels and in tons of of tens of millions of {dollars}’ value of advertisements since declaring his candidacy in November, Tuesday would be the first time his title seems on a poll within the Democratic main.
Warren, in the meantime, will go into Tuesday on the defensive: Sanders presently has a bonus of greater than 5 factors in the FiveThirtyEight polling average for Massachusetts, and dropping her house state may very well be a devastating blow to the Massachusetts senator’s marketing campaign.
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