{"id":28607,"date":"2020-03-16T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=28607"},"modified":"2020-03-16T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:42:31","slug":"in-latest-primaries-biden-surges-as-sanders-stumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2020\/03\/16\/in-latest-primaries-biden-surges-as-sanders-stumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"In Latest Primaries, Biden Surges as Sanders Stumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Following his surprising sweep during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2020\/03\/10\/super-tuesday-recap-biden-takes-back-the-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Super Tuesday<\/a>, former Vice President Joe Biden has added more notches to his belt, netting wins in four of the six contested states on Mar. 10: Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri and the delegate-rich state of Michigan (which holds a total of 125 delegates, the sole triple-digit delegate state of the night\u2019s primary).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> As of this writing, with 94% of the results having been reported, Biden holds a slim 2.0 lead against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) in Washington state.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tOut of the six states, Sanders has as of this writing won the state of North Dakota, earning him 14 additional delegates.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Both the Sanders campaign and his supporters were looking forward to a repeat of the 2016 primary in which the senator <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-the-polls-missed-bernie-sanders-michigan-upset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">shocked pollsters<\/a> by winning the coveted state of Michigan, beating the eventual 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton 49.8% to 48.3%.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, history wouldn\u2019t repeat itself four years later as Biden<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2020-election\/results\/michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\"> cruised to victory<\/a>, winning by 52.9% and securing nearly one million votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2020\/03\/10\/super-tuesday-recap-biden-takes-back-the-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Super Tuesday Recap: Biden Takes Back The Lead (opens in a new tab)\">Super Tuesday Recap: Biden Takes Back The Lead<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Losing Michigan signals danger for the fate of Sanders\u2019 campaign. Despite airing anti-Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=txPOUQbsdhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ads<\/a> all across the state, holding several rallies and earning an <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/03\/08\/rainbow-coalition-comes-full-circle-as-jesse-jackson-endorses-bernie-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">endorsement<\/a> from civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, the Democratic Socialist came up short.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his victory speech later that night in Philadelphia, Biden congratulated Sanders on a hard-fought battle.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Bernie Sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and passion,\u201d Biden said. &#8220;We share a common goal. Together we&#8217;ll defeat Donald Trump. We&#8217;ll defeat him together. We&#8217;ll bring this nation together.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UdDIzwPQ7Is?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Biden&#8217;s speech to supporters in Philadelphia after securing Michigan win. (Guardian News\/YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, Sanders held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/11\/814266895\/sanders-an-unlikely-front-runner-2-weeks-ago-faces-a-stark-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">press conference<\/a> in Burlington, Vermont in which he informed the public that he had no plans of dropping out and signaled that the Mar. 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/12\/politics\/cnn-univision-debate-arizona-dc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">debate in Washington, D.C.<\/a> will be the moment that will allow voters to truly see what each candidate stands for policy-wise and that his campaign is the one that will defeat President Donald Trump this November.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal,&#8221; Sanders noted.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Biden leads the delegate count by 890 to 736.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quinton Bradley<\/strong><br>Contributing Writer<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his surprising sweep during Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden has added more notches to his belt, netting wins in four of the six contested states on Mar. 10: Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri and the delegate-rich state of Michigan (which holds a total of 125 delegates, the sole triple-digit delegate state of the night\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10416,"featured_media":28611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3327,3,3393],"tags":[3369,3382,3367,1597,2905],"class_list":["post-28607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-tartan-news","category-u-s-news","tag-2020-democratic-primary","tag-2020-election","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-joe-biden","tag-quinton-bradley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Biden-Coronavirus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-7rp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28614,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions\/28614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}