Bernie Sanders wins California, Joe Biden wins 9 Super Tuesday wins

The balance of Super Tuesday's battlefield has raised questions about whether the Democratic primary contest would extend until the July convention or be decided much sooner.

A reborn Joe Biden won victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential candidacy that was on the brink of disaster a few days earlier. But his rival, Bernie Sanders, won the biggest prize with a victory in California that allowed him – and his adherence to democratic socialism – to lead the fight for the nomination of Democrats for the foreseeable future.

And suddenly, the Democratic Party presidential field, which had more than half a dozen candidates a week ago, turned into a two-man contest.

Biden and Sanders, longtime politicians with radically different visions for the future of America, fought for delegates as 14 states and one American territory held a series of high-stakes elections highs that marked the most important polling day in the party’s 2020 presidential nomination fight.

It could take weeks – if not months – for the party to choose one of them to face President Donald Trump in the November general election. But the new contours of the fight between Biden and Sanders have crystallized as the former vice president and three-year senator from Vermont were talking about duel victory speeches made Tuesday night in the ends of the country.

"People talk about a revolution. We started a movement, "said Biden in Los Angeles, hitting one of Sanders' signature lines.

Without citing his burgeoning rival by name, Sanders hit Biden of Burlington, Vermont.

"You can't beat Trump with the same policy, the same old policy," said Sanders, checking off a list of past political differences with Biden over social security, trade and military force. "It will become a contrast of ideas."

Biden's victories were propelled by Democratic voters who broke their streak a few days before voting, a late wave that muddled the waters in a matter of hours. In some states, the latest decision makers accounted for about half of all voters, according to AP VoteCast, polls of voters in several state primaries. It has won the support of a broad coalition of moderates and conservatives, African-Americans and voters over the age of 45.

Sanders' success has proven that he can deliver the greatest test of his decades-long political career. Its success was built on a foundation of energetic liberals, youth and Latinos. But it has not been able to sufficiently broaden its appeal to older voters and university graduates who represent a large share of Democratic voters, according to AP VoteCast.

The other two top candidates still in the declining Democratic realm, New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, were teetering on the edge of viability. Warren finished in an embarrassing third place in his home country, and Bloomberg planned to reassess his candidacy on Wednesday after spending more than half a billion dollars to win a single victory – in American Samoa.

The balance of Super Tuesday's battlefield – with Biden winning at least eight states and Sanders four – has raised questions about whether the Democratic primary contest would extend until the July convention or would be decided much sooner.

Biden's solid finish punctuated a dramatic turnaround in just three days when he took advantage of a resounding victory in South Carolina to claim sweeping victories that transcended geography, class, on Tuesday. and race. And so that there is no doubt, he cemented his status as the standard-bearer of the wing of the Democratic establishment.

The former vice president proved himself in the Northeast with a victory in Massachusetts. He won delegate-rich Texas in the southwest, Minnesota in the upper Midwest, and finished first in the south in Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas – in addition to 39; Oklahoma.

Sanders opened the evening as the undisputed Democratic leader and was able to claim an insurmountable delegate advance. And while he won the biggest delegate award of the night in California, he scored only three other decisive victories, winning his home state, Vermont, with ; Utah and Colorado.

Biden has racked up his victories despite being considerably overwhelmed and in staff. Moderate rival Bloomberg, for example, spent more than $ 12 million on television advertising in Virginia, while Biden spent less than $ 200,000.

The Democratic race has radically changed as Biden took advantage of his dominant victory in South Carolina to persuade the anxious establishment allies to rally behind his campaign. Former rivals Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg abruptly ended their campaigns in the days leading up to Super Tuesday and approved Biden.

In Biden and Sanders, the Democrats have a decisive choice in the type of candidate they want to run against Trump.

Sanders is a 78-year-old democratic socialist who draws on an energetic coalition from the far left flank of his party that embraces his longstanding struggle to transform the country's political and economic systems. Biden is a 77-year-old leader of his party's Washington establishment who emphasizes a more pragmatic approach to fundamental political issues like health care and climate change.

In the states of Super Tuesday, there had been questions about Sanders' claims that he was increasing his support following his 2016 presidential failure.

Biden beat him in Oklahoma, although Sanders won the state over Hillary Clinton four years ago. In Virginia, where Democrat turnout this year exceeded 2016 numbers by more than 500,000 votes, Sanders' share of the vote has dropped significantly. And in Tennessee, Democrat turnout increased by more than 30% from 2016, but Sanders' total raw voices were only a few hundred votes higher than four years ago.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg was trying to look beyond the primary until the November elections against Trump, who won easy victories in slightly contested Republican primaries across the country.

"We have the resources to beat Trump in the swing states that the Democrats lost in 2016," said Bloomberg on Tuesday evening during a campaign in Florida.

Former New York mayor, billionaire, who threw more than half a billion dollars into the states of Super Tuesday, will re-evaluate his campaign on Wednesday, according to a person close to his operation who spoke under cover anonymity to describe internal deliberations.

Warren was also fighting to be optimistic.

Faced with a roaring crowd in Michigan before the announcement of its disappointing result in its country of origin, it called on its supporters to ignore political experts and predictions while his advisers insist on his will to Go as far as a disputed convention in July, even if it doesn't claim an absolute victory anywhere.

“Here's my advice: vote who will make you proud. Give your heart a vote, ”said Warren. She added, "You don't get what you don't fight for. I am in this fight. "

With votes still counting across the country, the Associated Press allocated 438 to Biden, 369 delegates to Sanders, 45 to Warren, 39 to Bloomberg and one for representative Tulsi Gabbard. Numbers are expected to change dramatically overnight as new states, no bigger than California, report their numbers and some candidates are hovering around the 15% vote threshold they must reach to win delegates .

The final candidate must finally claim 1,991 delegates, the majority of the 3,979 promised delegates available this main season.