Joe Biden won all the races this week in eight states, and there have been delegates that have been swaying all week, but he’s inching closer to the nomination. In fact, he has 19 to go at last count.
Let’s start off with the state primary election result recap shall we…in the order of times they were called (also as in when voting polls closed in that particular state)
Indiana - Biden prevailed over Sanders with a whopping 77 percent victory over Sanders’ 13 percent. Biden picks up 78 of the 82 delegates, and Sanders picks up one delegate. There are still four more delegates in contention.
DC - this race was particularly interesting in that the way I thought the votes in terms of placing for candidates that I thought turned out to be a little different. Yes, Biden won as he is the only remaining candidate left in the race, and he picked up a massive 76.9 percent of the votes. Sanders didn’t get above the 15 percent threshold required to achieve delegates. Biden got all 20.
Here’s the interesting thing: I thought Sanders would get a second place finish as he said he would vow to stay in the race and amass as many delegates as possible. Turns out he didn’t finish in second place, but in third with about 10 percent. In second place…ELIZABETH WARREN with 12 percent!!! Turns out she has a little more vitality in the race than I thought, even if she withdrew from the race two months ago.
Maryland - Joe Biden had a whopping 85 percent win and picked up all 96 pledged delegates. Oh, Bernie Sanders had a measly turnout with only 6.3% BTW.
Pennsylvania - Joe Biden is declared the winner, picking up 138 delegates and a whopping 78 percent of the vote. This is a state that was be crucial to November, as it is a key battleground state that he must win in order to achieve a victory against You-Know-Who. The election also saw a surge in the number of mail-in ballots (another factor in November) which could prove beneficial in the upcoming presidential race as the country’s still in pandemic mode. Sanders picked up 31 delegates as he received 19 percent of the vote. As the state’s total pledged delegates total 185, that means there are sixteen more that have yet to be decided at the time of this blog post.
Rhode Island - Biden declared victory in this state with a 61 percent victory over Sanders’ 30 percent. Biden wins 15 pledged delegates, while Sanders picks up six. As the state’s total pledged delegates total 26, that means there are five more yet to be decided at the time of this blog post.
New Mexico - Biden won the state with 73.3% of the vote, while Sanders just hung in there claiming 15.1%. As a result, Biden picked up 28 pledged delegates while Sanders picked up 2. As the state’s total pledged delegates total 34, that means there are four more yet to be decided at the time of this blog post.
South Dakota - there were 16 pledged delegates up for grabs and Biden picked up 13 of them. He won the contest with 77.5 percent of the vote. Sanders picks up the remaining three.
Montana - Joe Biden walked away with 18 pledged delegates and 74.5 percent of the vote. Since Montana had 19 pledged delegates, that means that Bernie Sanders nabbed the final one. He grabbed 14.7 percent of the vote. (It rounds up to fifteen percent so if you look at it in mathematical terms he just barely squeaked by.)
Here's where the delegate count stands as of now;
As of this writing, I've checked with another website from which I based on writing this blog and found that there are 33 delegates that have yet to be assigned from states that have already voted. Because Sanders was still in the running at that time, he might pick up some delegates from the states that were called in his favor...or it might switch over to Biden as he's the lone dDemocratic candidate left in the race. Whatever happens, he's bound to get the nomination at some point.
UP NEXT: The US Virgin Islands tomorrow, and it won’t net much for either candidate as seven pledged delegates are up for grabs.
