Super Tuesday II: Where we stand before tonight

Super Tuesday II Results - the results so far

Here are the standings leading into tonight's second Super Tuesday primary, in which six states and 395 delegates are up for grabs. I've also heard that this is literally a make-or-break moment for the Sanders campaign. Right now he's literally neck-in-neck with Joe Biden, with the former taking the lead by 100 more delegates. With Warren and Bloomberg having dropped out after their less-than-dissappointing results last week, it's literally a race between the top two candidates: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (oh, and Tulsi Gabbard's still managing to hang in there). If Biden wins a majority of the delegates, that could put him right around the 1,000 delegate mark. Bernie still has a fighting chance, although Michigan stands to be his last chance for a campaign boost.

UPDATE:
There are still 140 more delegates from last week’s Super Tuesday up for grabs and accounted for. Most of that comes from California, in which the election results are still being o=processed. Bernie Sanders has been projected to winn that state, but there are 3.3 million mail-in ballots that still to be counted. We could see a winner in our state by the end of March or April.

And there’s the issue of the Coronavirus that is going to see whether that will affect voter turnout. Both Biden and Sanders have cancelled planned events in Washington earlier in the day due to Coronavirus concerns. Whoops, I mean, the CONVID-19 virus.

Biden wins Missouri at 5:00 with 0.4% poll reporting

Biden wins Missouri at 5:20 with only 1% of vote counted

North Dakota - as of 8pm, it’s too early to call.

Michigan - as of 9pm, it’s too early to call as exit polls started tracking even before it closed and showed that both candidates are within striking distance of each other —- 53% Biden to 42% for Sanders. They will each be awarded delegates as Sanders surpassed the threshold of 15 percent.

6:07 - It’s called for Biden with 52% of the votes in. This is an upset for Bernie Sanders as this was a state he won against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Still, it’s a close one in terms of delegate counts.  This race may not be over folks.

9:00 - Washington and Idaho are too early to call.

I think I might have to add another entry tomorrow it looks like, but the results so far tonight: 3 states for Biden, 2 states too early to call, and North Dakota is too early as well but Sanders maintains an early lead of 40 to 26.

It is also of note to point out that another race, the Democrats Abroad, held their week-long primary that began March 3 and wrapped today. On Monday, the DNC chair indicated they didn't anticipate announcing any unofficial results before March 23 due to the high volume of remote ballots.

Check back either tomorrow or Thursday where I will have more and also an updated delegate count total.