Super Tuesday: Biden wins 10 states, Sanders takes California
Al JazeeraA resurgent Joe Biden has scored sweeping victories across the United States with the backing of a diverse coalition and progressive rival Bernie Sanders seized Super Tuesday’s biggest prize with a win in California as the Democratic Party’s once-crowded presidential field became a two-man contest. The contours of a nomination fight pitting Biden against Sanders, each leading coalitions of disparate demographics and political beliefs, were crystallising by day’s end as the former vice president and the three-term senator spoke of and to each other through duelling victory speeches 4,000 kilometres apart on Tuesday night, even if they avoided using each other’s name. “We’re going to win the Democratic nomination and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country.” Stark choice The balance of Super Tuesday’s battlefield – with Biden winning at least nine states and Sanders four – raised questions about whether the Democratic primary contest will stretch all the way to the July convention or be decided much sooner. Biden, who served two terms as President Barack Obama’s vice president, won 60 percent of the black vote in Alabama, where African Americans made up more than half the Democratic electorate on Tuesday.