"It's a good night," a smiling Biden said. "They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing."
Biden won across the map, chalking up victories in Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Minnesota, Arkansas, and in Massachusetts, the home state of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
With votes still being counted well after midnight, Biden was also leading in Maine.
Sanders meanwhile was the victor in his home state of Vermont, Colorado, Utah, and the biggest prize of Super Tuesday, California.
.@JoeBiden: "We were told, 'well when you got to #SuperTuesday it'd be over'. Well it may be over for the other guy. Tell that to the folks in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota and maybe even Massachusetts." pic.twitter.com/7ELtxmyTdI
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 4, 2020
The vote totals represented a setback for Sanders, losing in states which he had won against Hillary Clinton in 2016, like Oklahoma and Texas, as Biden triumphed without any organization or spending - while Sanders had worked for months to be ready for Super Tuesday.
In his speech from back home in Vermont, Sanders took aim at Biden, previewing the battle ahead.
"We are not only taking on the corporate establishment, we are taking on the political establishment," Sanders said.
"You cannot beat Trump with the same old, same old, kind of politics," Sanders added, repeating a familiar stump speech reference to Biden.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders used his #SuperTuesday speech to contrast his voting record in the U.S. Senate with that of former Vice President Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/HKYN3nrjHF
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 4, 2020
Biden and Sanders were the only winners on Super Tuesday, as Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren did not come close to winning any of the fourteen states in play - though Bloomberg did win the majority of delegates in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Bloomberg will reportedly reassess his campaign on Wednesday, as his first appearance on the ballot did not net him any momentum.
"In just three months, we've gone from one percent of the polls to being a contender for the Democratic nomination," Bloomberg said at a campaign rally.
But after spending millions, Bloomberg had little to show for it.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren was in much deeper trouble, as she did not finish above third place in any state - including her home state of Massachusetts, where Biden was the winner.
That immediately raised questions about the future of Warren's campaign.
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