Sunday, April 19, 2020

Wyoming



And what this post will be the introduction of two image banners:
         1) the "Election 2020" banner
         2) the banner of the state that held their primary/caucus and their results.

This short post is Wyoming.

Wyoming began their elections on April 4. Due to the pandemic sweeping the nation that is the COVID-19 outbreak, the primaries were switched from being in-person to mail-in voting and the voting period was extended to April 17. That was for primaries, but the caucus met yesterday (April 18) to decide on their candidate which is why the results were delayed until today.

The result: Joe Biden was declared the winner (which is a no-brainer, since he is the ONLY candidate left in the Democratic field)

It was the candidate's widest margin, as he won with 72.2 percent (10,912 votes) over Bernie Sanders' 27.8 percent (4,206 votes). Biden picks up 12 of the 14 delegates, while Sanders picks up the remaining two delegates. The four superdelegates will be saved for sometime during the conveention in summer, which I'm pretty sure they will be handed to Biden.

Biden got some pretty big endorsements this week that helped him along towards victory:Sanders endored him on April 13, the following day he recieved an endorsement from his former boss (and 44th U.S. President) Barack Obama, and the day after an endorsement from Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday. Those are the big endorsements,  and he did get a riveting 18 more from big-named Wyoming senator and congresspeople big-shots that the news wasn't able to tell you.

Here is the current delegate count as it stands as of today:


NEXT (Now I can do Ohio, lol): Ohio has cancelled their in-person voting and will instead send their official ballots by mail. They have until April 28 to send in their votes. 136 pledged delegates will be awarded. Whether all of them will go to Biden or if they will be divided amongst the two candidates will be up to the state’s constituents to decide.

Originally, the scheduled primary elections were supposed to be held on April 28 in Deleware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island -- making up the biggest delegate count of that day. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, their dates are changed to June 2 and apparently, if the date does not change, Maryland will be included as well). All of them are currently in-person voting, but that could all change between now and June 2.

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