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Joe Biden is predicted to win Florida and Illinois primaries – page 1

In the United States, three other states have their area codes in the Presidential election campaign completed, and the former US Vice President Joe Biden again emerges as the winner.

According to the first forecasts, Biden has settled in the important state Florida clearly against the left-wing rival Bernie Sanders by. This was reported by the television channels ABC, Fox News and CNN in agreement. Biden was estimated to be around 40 points
before Sanders. With this, the 77-year-old consolidated his favorite role in the US election campaign as a democratic challenger against the incumbent president Donald Trump. Before the Florida vote, Biden had previously won primaries in 16 other states.

Elections were also held in Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday. In all three states, Biden had led the way in surveys and Biden in Illinois also sees initial forecasts as winners. Should he win in all three countries, the pressure on Sanders to step out of the race should increase.

Ohio primaries were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic

After counting 72
Percent of the counties in Florida would have 39 delegates on Biden
account for Sanders 11, the research institute reported
Edison Research. A total of 219 delegate votes are cast in
Florida awarded 155 in Illinois. Further results are in
expected from Arizona at night.

The primaries pave the way for the Democratic nomination convention in the summer, at which the party’s presidential candidate is ultimately chosen. In Florida, Illinois and Arizona, there are 441 delegate votes for this party convention – this corresponds to around 11 percent of all regular party delegates. 219 delegate votes are given in Florida alone, 155 in Illinois, 67 in Arizona.

Actually, voting should also take place in Ohio on Tuesday. However, due to the spread of the corona virus, the health authority had briefly ordered to keep the polling stations closed. In one TV duel earlier this week Both Biden and Sanders took the opportunity to criticize the US government’s response to the corona virus pandemic.

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