The biggest day on the primary calendar, Super Tuesday, put one-third of Democratic delegates available to claim in 14 states across America. States including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah, as well as the American Samoa and voters abroad, offer their delegates to the champion of Super Tuesday.

Super Tuesday rapidly became a two-person race between Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Biden claimed a sizable victory in Super Tuesday contests all across the U.S., while Sanders triumphed in delegate-rich California, splitting the map on the biggest primary voting day of the election and indicating an intense struggle between the two that is more than likely to continue in the weeks to come.

However, Biden’s success took the headline of the night, as he resurged into the competition after his poor performances in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada earlier in the year. Though Biden won the most contests on Tuesday, Mar. 3, the race is still extremely close.

“I’m here to report: We are very much alive! And make no mistake about it, this campaign will send Donald Trump packing,” Biden told his supporters in Los Angeles, according to Fox News.

In every voting state and autonomous region on Super Tuesday, any candidate who fails to receive 15% of the popular vote walks away empty-handed, and the candidates who clear the 15% mark will receive a proportionate number of delegates to the total vote.

“We’re gonna win the Democratic nomination, and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country,” Sanders exclaimed to his supporters at a rally in Vermont, his home state. The crowd then erupted in chants of his name.

Biden’s southern-state victories were valuable and crucial to his success. Virginia is worth 99 pledged delegates, North Carolina worth 110, Alabama 52, Tennessee 64, Texas 228, Oklahoma 37, and Arkansas 31. Sanders claimed Utah worth 29, Colorado 67, and Vermont 16. California, with 494 delegates, helped Sanders close the gap and even the competition.

For Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the results of Super Tuesday have had devastating effects on their supporters’ morales. 

Warren finished a disappointing 3rd place in her home state of Massachusetts, while Sanders placed just ahead in 2nd place.  According to NBC, she dropped out this morning at 11 a.m. ET, although she has not officially announced the end of her campaign. 

The results were also a major disappointment for Bloomberg, who spent nearly half a billion dollars to fund his campaign. Bloomberg wanted to secure the lead by presenting himself as the only electable candidate in the race, one that holds a status nobody else does. He was on the primary ballot for the first time on Super Tuesday. 

There was one good outcome for the high-spending multi-billionaire as the votes were counted, though: the results from the unincorporated territory of American Samoa showed that Bloomberg accumulated five delegates from his victory there. However, Bloomberg ultimately decided to drop out of the race to the White House and instead shifted his supporters’ attention to Biden by endorsing him. 

Roughly one-third of the total 3,979 delegates were at stake on Super Tuesday. Biden was awarded 380 delegates, Sanders 328, Warren 28, Bloomberg 12.

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