Former vice president Joe biden prevailed in four of the six states that held Democratic primary elections on Tuesday, striking a blow to the presidential aspirations of the senator Bernie Sanders in the so-called ‘Great Tuesday’ or mini-Super Tuesday.
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Biden took the big prize of the day to prevail in Michigan, a state that provides 125 delegates and in which Sanders had surprisingly defeated his then rival Hillary Clinton in 2016. The defeat in Michigan is a major blow that decreases Sanders’ chances of victory.
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While in 2016 the triumph in this state revitalized its campaign against the former secretary of state, the defeat on Tuesday could mean the beginning of the end of its presidential aspirations.
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Biden’s categorical victory in the four states once again highlighted his strength between the working class and African-Americans, vital groups to obtain the Democratic nomination.
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Michigan will be the scene of a closed dispute in the November presidential elections, as the president Donald Trump will seek to repeat the surprise victory he won in 2016 over Clinton by just 10,704 votes.
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Biden also won the Democratic primary in Idaho, according to projections from the Associated Press. In that state 20 delegates are distributed.
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North Dakota, with 14 delegates; and Washington, with 89, still counted the votes early Wednesday.
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According to a preliminary count from the AP agency, this Great Tuesday has given Biden at least 153 new delegates: 53 in Michigan, 40 in Missouri, 29 in Mississippi, five in North Dakota, 17 in Washington and nine in Idaho. Sanders would have obtained 89: 35 in Michigan, 23 in Missouri, two in Mississippi, seven in Idaho, five in North Dakota and 17 in Washington.
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The importance of the black vote
Referring to his run-over, Biden said Tuesday night from the Philadelphia Constitutional Center: “To all those who have been torn down, given by losers, by laggards: This is your campaign. Just a week ago, many experts declared this dead candidacy. Now we are completely alive. “
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“Together we are joining this party, today we are getting closer to restoring honor and decency in the White House,” he said in a message that sounded like that of someone who already believes that his final victory for the Democratic nomination is assured. “Everything that the United States has done in the United States is in check (…) Winning means uniting the country, not dividing it.”
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On Tuesday, Biden also won easily in Mississippi and Missouri. In those states and in Michigan, he gained a great advantage between men and women, and between black and white voters, according to the AP agency.
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The African-American vote has given Biden the victory in several states like South Carolina, the first victory for Biden who won there on February 29 after a mediocre performance in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
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Having accompanied the president Barack Obama For eight years in the White House he seems to have played in favor of Biden among African-American voters against Sanders. According to AP, Biden got about 75% of the black vote in Mississippi and Missouri, which provide 36 and 68 delegates, respectively.
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The senator for Vermont is now even further behind in the race to become the candidate of the Democratic Party to the November elections, but he had not given signs Tuesday that he will abandon his campaign.
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Sanders complained over the weekend that the elite of the party turned against him and in favor of Biden, after several former presidential aspirants publicly announced their support for the vice president.
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Instead, the senator made no public statement on Tuesday night, at a time when many within the party begin to ask him to give up his presidential aspirations.
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Businessman Andrew Yang, who aspired until February to the White House and in 2016 supported Sanders and is now a political commentator on the CNN network, spoke on Tuesday about the need for the party to join as soon as possible to support Biden.
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Yang’s comments suggest that different sectors will begin to strongly urge Sanders to give up as soon as possible with the goal of granting the Biden team the possibility of working on a strategy to confront Trump.
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Biden sent a message to Sanders during a brief speech he delivered Tuesday night in Philadelphia: “We have a common goal. Together we will defeat Donald Trump.”
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In 2016, the senator continued to fight Clinton even though it was already mathematically impossible to reach the former first lady, who had the majority of the delegates and had the backing of most of the so-called superdelegates (a figure that Sanders questioned in that moment and that the Democratic Party modified in the reforms that it made to this year’s primary process)
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At about midnight on Tuesday, Biden had 788 delegates and Sanders 633 on Tuesday when there were primary disputes in 20 states, as indicated by the Univision News accountant. The first to accumulate 1,991 delegates will become the Democratic flagman during the party convention that will be held in Milwaukee in July.
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Sanders has a hard time reaching Biden, and maybe he can only prevent him from reaching the number of delegates needed to get the nomination before the convention, although the former vice president would arrive with a clear majority.
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The calendar will move on Tuesday, March 17, to four states that have been closely contested in previous cycles: Arizona, Illinois, Ohio and Florida, a state in the latter where favorable comments on Fidel Castro will probably weigh Sanders and give an advantage to Biden
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