Super Tuesday is the day when the most states hold contests to pick a presidential nominee, the most voters can go to the polls, and the most delegates are allotted to candidates. (For its history, go here.)
Fourteen states and American Samoa held nominating contests yesterday, awarding a total of 1,357 delegates. These constitute 34 percent of the nearly four thousand delegates available through the process.
How Joe Biden won the day
Here’s what we know so far.
Joe Biden won nine states last night, seizing control of the Democratic presidential process. He scored a dramatic upset victory in Texas and surprising wins in Minnesota and Massachusetts and now leads the race with 453 delegates.
Bernie Sanders won California, Colorado, Utah, and his home state of Vermont. He is in second with 382 delegates.
Elizabeth Warren did not win a single state and now has fifty delegates. Michael Bloomberg managed to win American Samoa and now has forty-four delegates. Maine remains too close to call this morning.
Before yesterday, less than 5 percent of the delegates had been allotted. After Super Tuesday, 38 percent have been determined.
“Across Europe, this wall will fall”
Whatever your beliefs regarding President Trump or the Democrats seeking to replace him, it’s worth remembering that yesterday’s primaries gave nearly 130 million people a chance to participate in our democracy. They would constitute the tenth-largest nation on earth.
In Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea, Richard Brookhiser explores the history of liberty in the US through many of our most significant historic documents. Here are some of the lesser known:
- The minutes of the Jamestown General Assembly in 1619 established the principle of local control or…
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