We will get to that in a moment. Last night, biden picked up the key endorsements from the rivals who just dropped out of the race. We are talk about Pete Buttigieg and amy kobuchar and the presence here is a sign of the strategy highlighting the importance of the golden state in the primary. In the meantime, the president ial candidate frontrunner Bernie Sanders is back in vermont and he and his wife jane showed up to the neighborhood polling place to cast the votes. Sanders joked that he would win at least two votes in vermont with their own vote. And this is Bernie Sanders voting in her home state of massachusetts and today might be the last hope for a path to the nomination. The polls are showing that the path is diminishing. And Michael Bloomberg cannot vote for himself, because the new york billionaire is not registered in the state of the primary today so he is in florida another delegaterich state. The poll numbers have been on the rise since the late entry into the president i
Progressive vote there and they will pick up delegates there. And texas is a nailbiter and this could go late into the morning in terms of the vote there. A twoperson race at the top. Maine, and biden it is too close to call there, and we dont have a result there. And sanders is scoring a trio of victories, first in utah a commanding lead over Mike Bloomberg right now, and in vermont, sanders, and sorry, colorado, sanders is the projected winner as well as vermont, his home state. And looking at the night that joe biden has had and it is a big one, winning in North Carolina, virginia, minnesota, tennessee, oklahoma and arkansas and so he is sweeping the south and posting huge margins there which is going to make him rack up the delegates and it is all about the delegates tonight and not about the states that you win, but how many delegates that you go home with, and biden is leading in that regard. As we reset here at 8 00 p. M. Pacific time and california polls are just closing, but t
Congress. Two democrats joined republicans in rejecting th articles while a third Democrat Cast his vote against the obstruction charge. Also this week, seven democratic president ial hopefuls headedto california for a dete at Loyola Marymount university in los angeles. This time, it mayor Pete Buttigieg on the defensive clashing with senator warren over a rarecent fund iser held in napa valley. With me now is senior Political Writer for the San Francisco chronicle, joe garafoli and l. A. Times political reporter melanie mason. Angeles. S us by skype from los welcomto you both. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Great tohave you both here. Joe, i want to start with you and were going to do a bit of a mea culphere. Am i crazy, it almost feels like there was not an impeachment of pra ident thick week. I felt the same way. We saw the adnes, president impeached. Part of that, you know, is the historical import, of couron, of three president s to ever be impeached and at the same time, we kne
This super tuesday . It is americas choice. Tonight, the candidates compete for the delegates that will decide the nomination. Bernie sanders is looking to lock in the lead and spread the political revolution. I hear the establishment saying, oh, bernie cant win. Well, look at this crowd today and tell me that we cant win the election. Lets go, joe. Lets go, joe. Joe biden on the rebound after the first win was a blowout. We are very much alive. This campaign is taking off. So join us. Reporter the rest of the pack is surging forward including Mike Bloomberg with millions to spend. If you are ready to clean out the oval office and get things done, then welcome to bloomberg, 2020. Elizabeth warren finding new fire on the attack. You dont get what you dont fight for. I am fighting back. We can do this. Now, it is time for voters to have their say. It is time to get up, and take it back. The democrats are taking their fight to new battlegrounds. I am absolutely certain that we are going t
Elizabeth warren is reassessing her campaign. And we are also standing by for a briefing this hour of mike pence and the Coronavirus Task force from the Briefing Room. The outbreak has now infected 154 people here in the United States with california reporting the first death on top of 10 in Washington State. The house of representatives has just passed an 8. 3 billion coronavirus funding package. A lot of news is happening, and lets go to the senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, joe biden pulled off a dr dramatic turnaround yesterday . Yes, the outlook of the primary has been changed with the wake of super tuesday. Joe biden was seen as the theoretical democratic frontrunner, but now the voters have made him a real one. Sweeping ten states and turning out a broader coalition than before. And this is a suddenly headtohead battle with Bernie Sanders, and now biden is in the drivers seat. They dont call it super tuesday for nothing. Reporter it is clear, momentum trumped mo