Election Night - March 17, 2020

It’s election night in 3 of the 4 states as we have a lot to get to…and the night is overshadowed by the Coronavirus outbreak which has seen much of the cities pretty much or either lockdown or self-isolation mode.

FOhio was supposed to hold it’s primary tonight, but the governor there wanted to essentially postpone it. He got his wish as he essentially DEFIED a federal judge order saying it would’ve gone ahead scheduled. The rescheduling puts it in flux. Other states followed suit as well, as you can see by the picture (courtesy of MSNBC). Below are the new scheduled dates.


Here is where everything stands as of tonight in terms with rescheduling:
The Ohio primary was rescheduled from March 17, 2020, to a date to be determined.
The Georgia primary was rescheduled from March 24, 2020, to May 19, 2020.
The Puerto Rico primary will be rescheduled from March 29, 2020, to April 26, 2020, pending approval from the Puerto Rican House of Representatives and the governor of the territory.
The Louisiana primary was rescheduled from April 4, 2020, to June 20, 2020.
The Maryland primary was rescheduled from April 28, 2020, to June 2, 2020.
The Kentucky primary was rescheduled from May 19, 2020, to June 23, 2020.

I also heard rumblings that the DNC might consider voting-by-mail ballots proceeding forward, with an option for people to go to the polling places should they remain open. So we'll see what happens.

The other three states —- Florida, Illinois, and Arizona —- are going ahead with their primaries as planned.

Florida was the first up in the night, and it was the main one of the night as a total of 216 delegates will be awarded. As of 5:00, the Associated Press announced that Joe Biden is the winner. MSNBC was tracking some of the results as early as thirty minutes before as early poll tracking came in. As of the hour, Biden held a substantial 61 percent lead over Sanders’ 23 percent, with roughly 70% of the results coming in.

Illinois came next, and it was too early to call in that state. (Will add when I check in two hours, by which time the Arizona results should come)

6:30 - Illinois got called for Biden

And in the final state of the night, which was revealed at about 8:00 at night, the results of Arizona were revealed: and it went to —- Joseph Biden. 3-3.

And in my opinion, this was reminiscent of a feat made by Bernie Sanders four years ago when he won all seven of the seven states in a contest between him and Hilary Clinton.

As of the March 17 the delegate count are as follows (although it might change once voting in the remaining races are counted):

 

Biden is now over the 1,000 delegate mark, and has taken a substantial lead over Sanders. As of yesterday, Sanders was going to take time off the campaign trail in order to "assess his path moving forward", which is never a good sign.

NEXT: If the primary schedule holds (and assuming it doesn't get approval), Puerto Rico will be the next to hold a vote on March 29 now that Georgia has been recheduled. As stated above, Georgia was supposed to hold a vote next Tuesday. That will now take place on May 19, and there's no telling what the Coronavirus situation will be like by then.