{"id":9261,"date":"2020-03-06T02:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T02:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2020-03-06T02:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T02:59:46","slug":"bidens-big-victories-on-super-tuesday-make-him-a-heavy-favorite-to-be-the-democratic-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/sports\/bidens-big-victories-on-super-tuesday-make-him-a-heavy-favorite-to-be-the-democratic-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Big Victories on Super Tuesday Make Him a Heavy Favorite to Be the Democratic Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s hard to\noverstate just how big Super Tuesday was for Joe Biden. Biden was\nprojected to win just a handful of states according to both the\npolitical\nbetting odds<\/a> and the prognosticators, but the former\nVice President surpassed even the rosiest of expectations by claiming\nvictory in 10 states. He surged past Bernie Sanders in the total\ndelegate count, and that has led to Biden becoming the clear\nfrontrunner going forward in the race for the Democratic Party\nnomination. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IN THE 2020 UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

JOE BIDEN -600
BERNIE SANDERS +400
HILLARY CLINTON +2500<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s\nhistoric Super Tuesday performance could not have happened without\nsome help from other candidates. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar\nboth dropped out of the race just before Super Tuesday and threw\ntheir support behind Biden, leading to a coalescing of the centrist\nvote in the party. The establishment then through its support behind\nBiden in a big way, helping Biden overcome the odds in places no one\nexpected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Vice\nPresident was a massive underdog in Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota,\nand Texas per the political\nbetting odds<\/a>, but he ended up pulling off the upset in\neach state. Each one of those victories was a resounding victory for\nBiden, but the two biggest victories were in Massachusetts and Texas.\nIn Massachusetts, Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were the logical\nfavorites to win due to their proximity to the state and their\npolitics, and a centrist like Biden was given little chance. However,\nBiden earned 33.8 percent of the vote, beating Sanders by over seven\npoints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning in Texas\nwas even more surprising given Sanders\u2019 popularity among Latino\nvoters. Sanders was ahead in 11 of the 12 polls before Super Tuesday,\nand he was expected to win big in the state considering how much\nmoney he spent advertising and organizing in the Lone Star State.\nHowever, younger voters failed to go to the polls in the numbers that\nother groups did, leading to a huge win for Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s going to\nbe tough for Sanders to win the nomination from here. The\nself-described socialist is considered too left wing for the party\nbrokers, and there have already been multiple reports that he would\nlose a brokered convention. The centrist wing of the Democratic Party\nmobilized against him in 2016, and it moved against Sanders this year\ntoo. Superdelegates have indicated they would not support him if he\ndoesn\u2019t have the majority he needs to claim the nomination without\na brokered convention, and even if he has a plurality of votes, Biden\nwill almost certainly be the choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That puts the\npressure on Bernie to swing the momentum back in his direction after\na tough last five days. There will be 316 delegates at stake on March\n10 with the biggest prize being Michigan. Biden and Sanders have been\nrunning close to each other in the state over the last month, but\nBiden\u2019s victory in Minnesota makes him the favorite next Tuesday.\nThe former VP is also going to be favored in Mississippi and\nMissouri, while Washington will almost certainly go to Sanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best hope for\nSanders going forward is to trounce Biden at the next Democratic\ndebate on March 15. With all the other candidates off the stage\n(sorry Tulsi Gabbard), all the attention will be on Sanders and\nBiden, and the former has proven to be much better on the debate\nstage than the latter. Sanders has been more cogent and articulate in\nhis thoughts than Biden, and the former Vice President has struggled\nwith the spotlight on him for an extended period of time. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind, look for Sanders to be on the offensive next Sunday night. He knows he must go all-out in what could be the last debate in order to win the nomination, and at 78 years old, he knows he is unlikely to run in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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