(WBAP/KLIF) — Updated 10:25 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – Bernie Sanders has seized victory in Super Tuesday’s biggest prize, California, while a resurgent Joe Biden scored wins across the country with the backing of a diverse coalition. It came as the Democratic Party’s once-crowded presidential field transformed into a two-man contest. The two Democrats were battling for delegates as 14 states and one U.S. territory held a series of high-stakes presidential primary elections. Biden took Arkansas, Alabama, Minnesota, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia, while Sanders won California, Colorado, Utah and Vermont. The former vice president and the three-term senator took aim at each other from dueling victory speeches separated by 2,500 miles Tuesday night.
Updated 8:03 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – Joe Biden has notched his first major Super Tuesday victory, winning Virginia to start the most pivotal night of the Democratic presidential primary. Front-runner Bernie Sanders also grabbed a home-state win in Vermont. Voting was still occurring Tuesday in the two biggest prizes of the night, Texas and California. Virginia was a lift for Biden after Sanders and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg heavily contested it over the past week. A once-jumbled primary was becoming an increasingly well-defined battle between Sanders and Biden after several former rivals endorsed the former vice president on Monday. The billionaire Bloomberg is a wild card.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Many Democratic voters in Super Tuesday’s presidential primaries made up their minds just before casting a ballot – a sign of fluidity in a race recently upended by Joe Biden’s blowout in South Carolina. The share of late deciders ranged from about a quarter of voters in Texas to roughly half in Minnesota, according to AP VoteCast surveys of voters in several Super Tuesday contests. Moderate and conservative voters in each state were slightly more likely than their liberal counterparts to delay a decision to the last minute. The indecision shows voters grappling with their choices in a race that is changing quickly.
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