Super Tuesday and Joe Biden's Big Night
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The Democratic presidential contest became a two-man race, as former vice president Joe Biden rode a surge of momentum from his big win in South Carolina on Saturday and established himself as an equal alternative to Senator Bernie Sanders.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post reports that despite being outspent everywhere, Joe Biden was able to win by a better than 2 to 1 margin in states that Sanders won in 2016 but lost to this year. Furthermore, Bernie Sanders’coalition shrank, while white rural voters swung key states, delivering victory after victory to Biden.
A centrist article by NPR reports on five main takeaways from Super Tuesday. The article states that Biden and Sanders have distinctly different bases of support, Sanders’ might be approaching his support ceiling, Sanders actual younger-than-30 turnout isn’t quite living up to the promise, a shift like the one that occurred on Super Tuesday could happen again, and that momentum still trumps money in the presidential primaries.
Fox News published a right-leaning article highlighting that civil right activist Rev. Al Sharpton said in a panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” that Biden’s “shocking” victory was because a lot of black voters appreciated that he “stood by Barack Obama.” Sharpton also stated that a lot of “latte liberals” are disconnected from the base of the democratic party, which he defined as the African American voters who care about issues such as criminal justice, and if their kids are going to go to school.