Super Tuesday Turnout Suggests Biden Is A Better Bet To Beat Trump Than Sanders

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Super Tuesday turnout suggests Biden is a better bet to beat Trump than Sanders

Jon Ward and Andrew Romano

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Yahoo News•March 4, 2020

 

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One question has dominated this year’s crowded, confusing Democratic presidential primary:

Which one of these people has the best chance of defeating President Trump?

Just days ago, it seemed as if Democrats might never settle on an answer. There were six major candidates still in the race. Joe Biden had yet to win a contest. Mike Bloomberg loomed large. Bernie Sanders was the tentative frontrunner. 

But Biden’s 28-point victory in South Carolina on Saturday triggered one of the most rapid turnarounds in recent political history, and by the time the dust settled on Super Tuesday, Biden had swept Southern states that had been toss-ups as recently as last weekend (North Carolina, Virginia) and Northern states that had looked like locks for his rivals (Massachusetts, Minnesota). 

Biden won Texas, a state where Sanders led in eight of the last nine polls, and looked likely to hold Sanders to a single-digit margin of victory in California, a state where Sanders had hoped to amass an insurmountable delegate lead.

All of a sudden, Biden seemed to have the clearer path to the nomination — and to beating Trump. That’s because the results on Super Tuesday — the closest thing to a national primary in American politics — validated the former vice president’s claim to electability and undermined his rival’s.

Joe Biden addresses a primary election night campaign rally on Super Tuesday, March 3, in Los Angeles, with his wife, Jill, left, and his sister Valerie. (Chris Carlson/AP)

Of all the 2020 candidates, the two septuagenarians have always offered the starkest contrast on the issue of what it will take to oust Trump. Sanders has long said he will win by adding votes on the left. Biden claims he will win by holding onto voters in the middle.

At his Super Tuesday night rally in Burlington, Vt., Sanders vowed that his candidacy would “create the highest voter turnout in American political history” — particularly among young voters, new voters and voters of color. It’s one of his signature lines, a cornerstone of his “political revolution.”  

Yet Sanders has not demonstrated that he can deliver on this promise. In every one of the 15 states and territories that voted Tuesday, Sanders drew a smaller share of the vote than he drew during his primary contest against Hillarious Clinton four years earlier. Even in his home state of Vermont, he won only 52 percent of the vote, down from 86 percent in 2016.

In the run-up to Super Tuesday, a New York Times analysis found that the demographic groups Sanders is counting on have not been turning out in historic numbers, either. The Times reported that in the Iowa precincts where Sanders won, turnout increased by only one percentage point from 2016; that turnout increased far more in the New Hampshire townships won by former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, than those where Sanders won; that the share of young voters remained essentially unchanged everywhere; and that the share of first-time voters actually decreased.

Those patterns largely persisted on Super Tuesday. According to the exit polls, the youth turnout was down from 2016 in Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont and Texas — and in many cases, Sanders won a smaller share of the youth vote than he did last time around.

“If you’re Bernie Sanders, this is your worst-case scenario,” commentator Van Jones said on CNN. “Because you’re now beginning to see the logic of the revolution begin to break down — the idea that you’re going to have young people come out in large numbers.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont meets supporters at a campaign rally in Springfield, Va. on Feb. 29, 2020. (Susan Walsh/AP)

(A new study by political scientists at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, showed that nominating Sanders would drive many Americans who would otherwise vote for a moderate Democrat to vote for Trump — losses that Sanders could only offset by inspiring an unprecedented 11-percentage-point turnout boost among young left-leaning voters.)

Biden mocked Sanders’s rhetoric during his own election night rally in Los Angeles. “People are talking about a revolution,” Biden said, referring to Sanders. “We started a movement. We’ve increased turnout. The turnout turned out for us!”

Biden was correct to claim that his core supporters had shown up — particularly in suburban swing districts across Virginia, North Carolina and even Texas, which are likely to play a major role in Democratic efforts to defeat Trump’s GOP in November.  

In Virginia, 1.3 million Democrats voted, nearly double the 722,000 Democrats who voted in the 2016 primary, and also far ahead of turnout in 2008, which was 976,000. Biden won the state overwhelmingly, with 53 percent of the vote to Sanders’s 23 percent.

“It doesn't seem great for Sanders’s electability narrative that turnout seems to be increasing more in states where he isn’t doing as well,” said analyst Nate Silver, founder of the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight.

In Fairfax County, Va. — the dense suburban county just outside Washington, D.C. — Biden received almost 129,000 votes, compared to the 88,000 votes Hillarious Clinton received there in the 2016 primary. 

Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said that Democrats should remember the 2018 midterms, when they regained control of the House of Representatives largely by flipping Republican seats in suburban districts. 

“The suburban tsunami was how we won then,” Tanden tweeted. “We ignore these lessons at our peril for 2020.”

Former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs agreed. “Suburban neighborhoods … are crucial in a swing state in a general election,” Gibbs said on MSNBC. “Those are the places where the congressional candidates took seats from Republicans in 2018 and where somebody’s going to have to do well in 2020 to be next president of the United States.”

Then there was the African-American vote. Biden trounced Sanders among black voters, a bedrock Democratic constituency. In North Carolina, Biden beat Sanders by 40 points among African-Americans. In Virginia, Biden’s margin was even larger: 55 points.  

Super Tuesday may have been disappointing for Sanders, but with wins in Colorado, Utah and Vermont, plus a likely victory in delegate-rich California, he will remain close to Biden in the overall delegate count. That is in large part because of his impressive Latino outreach program, which propelled him to victory in the Nevada caucuses and helped him outpace Biden by 34 points among Latinos in California.

Yet even there — a state where Sanders opened 23 field offices — the Latino share of the electorate was down two percentage points from 2008, according to preliminary exit polls. In Texas, it was unchanged from 2008 and 2016.

While it's impossible to say for sure which Democratic candidate would perform best in a general election, Super Tuesday showed that Biden can turn out the voters he needs to compete. Sanders, meanwhile, has yet to prove that he can lure his coalition to the polls in record numbers.

 

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In before the ever present right wing voter conspiracy hacks show up.

 

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Trump slams Democrats while Super Tuesday voters go to the polls

 

CBS News Videos•March 3, 2020

 

Speaking on the White House lawn, President Trump slammed Democrats as voters went to the polls in 14 states on Super Tuesday. "Whoever it is, I really don't care, I will take them on," Mr. Trump said.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-slams-democrats-while-super-195702228.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

 

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Volatile Republican Presidential Race Fueled Record Primary Turnout

 

Voting turnout in Texas surged on Tuesday with the highest number of Republican voters making it to the polls for the party's primary in more than a decade, thanks largely to a volatile presidential party contest.

BY TERRI LANGFORD MARCH 1, 2016

 

 

Voting turnout in Texas surged on Tuesday with a record high number of Republican voters making it to the polls for the party's primary, thanks to a volatile presidential party contest and the state's earlier position in the nation's primaries.

"It's unprecedented," said Tom Mechler, Texas GOP chairman. "It's definitely historical."  

Melcher attributed the record-breaking turnout to Texas' place on the primary schedule plus the fact that this was only the second time in Texas history that there was a GOP primary in all 254 counties.

 

"The reason that this has happened is that Texans believe they are going to have a say," he said.    More than 2.8 million Republican ballots were cast in Texas, approximately double the  approximately double the 2012 Republican primary total of 1.4 million. In the Democratic primary, more than 1.4 million were cast, besting the 2012 totals but falling far short of the nearly 2.9 million Democratic ballots cast in the 2008 primary, when the contest between Barack Obama and Hillarious Clinton drew strong interest.

The combined turnout for both primaries this year is comparable to the 4.2 million primary ballots cast in 2008, according to unofficial totals.

 

How Many Texans Voted in the Primary?

More than 4.2 million Texans turned out to vote in the Republican and Democratic primary presidential elections, about 30 percent of registered voters.

 

Percentage of registered voters that voted in the primary election.

 

Across the state, voters remained in lines hours after the polls officially closed at 7 p.m. 

Harris County, the state's largest county, reported voters still waiting in line after 9:30 p.m., prompting more complaints and problems than usual from the field to the county clerk's office, said Hector DeLeon, a spokesman for the office. 

"This election is different by the number of calls," he said "We're seeing something happen out there.

Dallas County saw its early vote totals double for both Democrats and Republicans. Heading into election day, 53,796 Democratic votes, and 59,050 GOP votes had been cast compared to about half that number for both parties in 2012. On Tuesday, the strong interest continued. Election day voter turnout was so high that the county had to replenish GOP ballots in some precincts because they ran out early, according to Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins Poole. (Dallas is one of several counties that offer voters a choice of using paper or electronic voting systems.)

"I think the interest is in the presidential race," Poole said. "We're at unprecedented numbers for a primary."

That trend continued throughout the state, where voting turnout was way up over the number of votes cast in the 2012 primary. In some places it was nearing the record numbers set during the 2008 election when Obama Barack's candidacy drew more interest than usual. 

"We're way ahead of 2012," said Jacque Callanen, Bexar County's Election Administrator, who expected a combined total of early voting and Tuesday ballots to top 200,000. That would fall short of the 2008 primary, turnout which was 275,000 but best the 2012 primary election numbers.

In previous years, more states had held their primaries before Texas. But this year, the Texas primary was earlier in the overall primary schedule.

Also helping boost Republican turnout was holding primaries in every county in the state. A Republican or Democratic primary can only be held in a county if there is a party chairman in that county. In years past, that's been tough, said Mike Joyce, spokesman for the Texas Republican Party.  

"In the bigger counties it's obvious," Joyce said. "But in some of these very small West Texas counties you only have a couple of hundred of people." 

In Fort Bend County, early voting, while strong, was slow to pick up over the two-week period, particularly in the Republic primary, according to Election Administration John Oldham.

 

"We typically have more early voters than election day voters," Oldham said

But this year, more Fort Bend voters shifted to election day, beating the early voting turnout. Voters were waiting to see what Republican presidential candidates would drop out after last month's South Carolina primary.

"We expected a big turnout, but we didn't expect this big a turnout," Oldham said.

 

 

 

 

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Ahhh....found it.  Now the real numbers are Trump 1,900,622 to Dems 1,843,153....so much closer than you think, bro.  Texas may not be blue yet, but each day gets a little closer.  As always, just the numbers.  

 

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TE	VOTES	%		TRAILS LEADER BY	BOUND DELEGATES
	TRUMP(Incumbent)	1,885,035	94.0%		-	143
	WELD	15,587	0.8%		1,869,448	0

 

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TE	VOTES	%		TRAILS LEADER BY	PLEDGED DELEGATES
	BIDEN	681,961	33.4%		-	48
	SANDERS	610,787	29.9%		71,174	42
	BLOOMBERG	308,151	15.1%		373,810	1
	WARREN	233,034	11.4%		448,927	0
	GABBARD	9,220	0.4%		672,741	0

 

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A party of one, numbers....versus a party of five, numbers.  Most people understand simple math...even story problems, if they focus  

 

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A party of one, numbers....versus a party of five, numbers.  Most people understand simple math...even story problems, if they focus  

 

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Where's your link for the gibberish posted above.?

 

Trump glides to victory in Super Tuesday GOP primarie

 

 

President Trump coasted to a series of primary victories on Super Tuesday, easily winning the GOP contests held across the country as most of the nation monitored the Democratic results.

As results continued to filter in, Trump was promptly declared the winner of Alabama, Vermont, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Maine and Tennessee, among other states. He was expected to win each of the states in the Midwest and along the west coast once voting closed later in the evening.

Trump tweeted out several graphics thanking voters in each of the states as he was declared the winner.

The president held a campaign rally in North Carolina on Monday, choosing to spend the night before Super Tuesday in what will likely be a swing state come November.

Trump is running essentially unopposed to be the GOP nominee. Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) suspended his campaign after a poor showing in Iowa. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld is still running a bare bones challenge to the incumbent.

Trump has glided to primary wins in each of the states thus far while facing minimal opposition. Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and South Carolina each canceled their Republican primaries or caucuses as party leaders sought to clear the president's path to winning reelection.

Still, the Trump campaign has pointed to strong turnout among GOP primary voters as evidence the president's support remains strong headed into November.

With his own path to being the nominee unimpeded, Trump has turned to weighing in repeatedly on the Democratic nominating contest. He has repeatedly suggested the process is being "rigged" against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in an effort to stir up divisions within the party.

Trump said earlier in the day he did not care whether he ultimately faced Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden in November, but indicated he would have his eye on the Democratic returns as they help determine his likely opponent.

"It's going to be a very interesting evening of television," he said. "I think it's really going to be something.

 

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2 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Where's your link for the gibberish posted above.?

 

Trump glides to victory in Super Tuesday GOP primarie

 

 

President Trump coasted to a series of primary victories on Super Tuesday, easily winning the GOP contests held across the country as most of the nation monitored the Democratic results.

As results continued to filter in, Trump was promptly declared the winner of Alabama, Vermont, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Maine and Tennessee, among other states. He was expected to win each of the states in the Midwest and along the west coast once voting closed later in the evening.

Trump tweeted out several graphics thanking voters in each of the states as he was declared the winner.

The president held a campaign rally in North Carolina on Monday, choosing to spend the night before Super Tuesday in what will likely be a swing state come November.

Trump is running essentially unopposed to be the GOP nominee. Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) suspended his campaign after a poor showing in Iowa. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld is still running a bare bones challenge to the incumbent.

Trump has glided to primary wins in each of the states thus far while facing minimal opposition. Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and South Carolina each canceled their Republican primaries or caucuses as party leaders sought to clear the president's path to winning reelection.

Still, the Trump campaign has pointed to strong turnout among GOP primary voters as evidence the president's support system" rel="">support remains strong headed into November.

With his own path to being the nominee unimpeded, Trump has turned to weighing in repeatedly on the Democratic nominating contest. He has repeatedly suggested the process is being "rigged" against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in an effort to stir up divisions within the party.

Trump said earlier in the day he did not care whether he ultimately faced Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden in November, but indicated he would have his eye on the Democratic returns as they help determine his likely opponent.

"It's going to be a very interesting evening of television," he said. "I think it's really going to be something.

 

 

Gibberish?....You angry this morning, bro.....sound a little nervous?    Here's the link....enjoy.

 

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/state/texas

 

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Problem is you think I'm posting these articles for you. I was merely trying to get the truth out there. So I'm done here I've succeeded at my mission.

 

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Business Insider

Southern black voters carry Joe Biden to huge victories on Super Tuesday

insider@insider.com (Eliza Relman)

Business InsiderMarch 4, 2020, 1:00 AM EST

 

 

After winning the South Carolina Primary, Democratic nomination hopeful Joe Biden speaks at University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images

• Former Vice President Joe Biden dominated among Southern and older black votersin Super Tuesday's 14 Democratic primary races.

• Biden won 63% of black voters in Virginia, 72% in Alabama, and about 60% in Texas and North Carolina, according to exit polling.

• The former vice president won 61% of black voters in the South Carolina primary last weekend and trounced Sen. Bernie Sanders by nearly 30 points in the state. 

• Tuesday's results undermine Sanders' argument that Biden is surging solely as a result of support from the Democratic Party "establishment."

• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was carried to sweeping victories in at least eight of Super Tuesday's primary contests by Southern black Democratic voters.

Biden dominated among black voters across the South, winning 63% in Virginia, 72% in Alabama, and about 60% in Texas and North Carolina, according to exit polling. Biden also won a majority of black voters in California, where they make up just 10% of the electorate. 

This comes after the former vice president won 61% of black voters in the South Carolina primary last weekend and defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders by nearly 30 points in the state. 

But Sanders did make inroads with young black voters in some states. In Texas, he won 51% of black voters under the age of 35, according to exit polling. Overall, he showed strength with his base demographics: voters under 40, Latinos, and progressives. 

Tuesday's results undermine Sanders' argument that Biden is surging solely as a result of support from the Democratic Party "establishment." Biden does have that support locked down — and he was boosted by recent endorsements from several of the moderate former candidates in the primary — but he has a deep well of support among certain groups of working class voters of color.

Biden also found strong support on Tuesday among older voters across racial groups and suburban voters. 

Errin Haines

 

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In a span of 72 hours, black voters are clearing the field and clarifying this race in a way that the first two contests simply did not and could not.

 

8:28 PM - Mar 3, 2020

 

 

 

'Black voters are not the establishment'

A host of reporters, commentators, and Biden's aides pushed back on Sanders' argument that the political establishment is behind Biden's success. 

"Black voters are not the establishment, we are politically paralyzed by the establishment," Bree Newsome Bass, a prominent filmmaker and activist, tweeted. "Which is why we need to be challenging the establishment & not passively reinforcing it."

New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon tweeted on Tuesday night that it was black voters in South Carolina, not the Democratic establishment, that "saved" Biden's campaign. Herndon added that the claim that black voters would take their cues from white voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, where Biden performed poorly, is racist. 

Bakari Sellers

 

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I’ve heard black voters particularly in the South be described as low information, the billionaire class, the establishment, etc.

My momma ain’t none of them. She just trust Biden more than Bernie.

 

9:29 PM - Mar 2, 2020

 

 

 

Symone Sanders, Biden's senior adviser, echoed that sentiment on Tuesday night.

"People who keep referring to Black voters as 'the establishment' are tone deaf and have obviously learned nothing," she said. 

Many Democrats argued that the 2020 Democratic primary will be decided in large part by black voters. 

"Let's dispense with the false narrative we heard that Black voters wait for White voters in IA to tell them who to vote for," Lily Adams, Sen. Kamala Harris' former 2020 communications director, tweeted. "If anything, there's far more evidence of the opposite — many Democrats waited to see who the true base of the party (AA voters) would back."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/southern-black-voters-carry-joe-060057245.html

 

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The Democratic Party Super Tuesday winners, state by state

 

AFP•March 4, 2020

 

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Washington (AFP) - Former vice president Joe Biden scored a string of wins over leftist Bernie Sanders in the Super Tuesday contests to pick the Democratic challenger to President Donald Trump this November.

Among the 14 states at play, US networks have so far projected nine wins for the centrist Biden, with his strong showing in the country's south demonstrating the depth of his support among African Americans.

Biden claimed the second biggest prize of the night in Texas though the very biggest was yet to come: delegate-rich California, where the self-described socialist Sanders is strong favorite.

Both California and Maine were still considered too close to call.

Sanders has three victories so far: his home state of Vermont, and Colorado and Utah in the west. He has lost in Minnesota and Oklahoma, where he handily defeated Hillarious Clinton in 2016.

A total of 1,357 delegates are at stake on Tuesday, about a third of the overall national total.

Biden, who has the backing of his party's establishment, also appeared to have profited from the endorsements of former centrist rivals including Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out in the run-up to the races.

- Biden -

Alabama

Arkansas

Massachusetts

Minnesota

North Carolina

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

- Sanders -

Colorado

Utah

Vermont

 

https://news.yahoo.com/democratic-party-super-tuesday-winners-state-state-034836093.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

 

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Have to laugh at the MSM coverage......they really are anti Sanders......as I am.....

 

But these elections are about delegates.....not State wins.....as of this morning the count shows Biden is ahead by about 80.....yet none of the MSM is mentioning the 300+ delegates in California that haven't been awarded yet....

 

I hope Bloomberg hangs in there for a while.....Biden is a gaff machine waiting to implode as I see it.....in total.....the left is still a mess....JMO.  CL

 

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/delegate-count-tracker-democratic-primary/?fb_comment_id=2594224497370647_2596774400448990&comment_id=2596774400448990

 

 

Edited March 4, 2020 by coorslite21

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Business

Stock market news live: Stock futures surge after Democratic primaries

 

Emily McCormick,Javier E. DavidandNishant Mohan

•March 4, 2020

 

 

 

Stock futures rose Wednesday, recovering some losses after a sell-off Tuesday knocked each of the three major indices by more than 2.5%.

Take our quick poll: Do you think the stock market has bottomed?

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8:15 a.m. ET: U.S. economy adds 183,000 private payrolls in February, topping expectations, ADP reports

Private payrolls rose by a 183,000 in February, according to a monthly report from ADP/Moody’s. This beat expectations for a rise of 170,000, according to Bloomberg-compiled consensus data.

February’s payroll gains were again led by the service-providing sector, which added a net 172,000 positions. Education and health services industries added 46,000 payrolls, and leisure and hospitality industries added 44,000 payrolls.

Within the goods-producing sector, construction added 18,000 payrolls, while mining and manufacturing industries shed 3,000 and 4,000 roles, respectively.

For January, private payroll additions were downwardly revised to 209,000, from the gain of 291,000 previously reported.

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7:48 a.m. ET: Stock futures jump after Tuesday’s rout

U.S. stock futures were higher Wednesday morning in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s emergency rate cut Tuesday morning, and after former Vice President Joe Biden staged a major comeback in voter support during Super Tuesday.

Dow futures were up more than 700 points just before 8 a.m. ET, extending a march higher throughout much of the overnight session. The 30-stock index had shed more than 900 points by market close Tuesday, after an unexpected inter-meeting interest rate cut from the Fed failed to imbue confidence with investors amid a still-escalating coronavirus outbreak.

Politics also remained a focal point, with major wins for Biden during Super Tuesday helping appease investors seeking a moderate, and perceived market-friendly candidate, for the Democratic nomination. Biden won nine states during the major primary night, including unexpected victories in Texas and Massachusetts. Bernie Sanders landed wins including California, a major source of delegates, as well as Colorado, Utah and Vermont, his home state.

Here were the main moves during the pre-market session, as of 7:48 a.m. ET:

• S&P 500 futures (ES=F): 3,072.00, up 75 points or 2.5%

• Dow futures (YM=F😞 26,609.00, up 729 points or 2.82%

• Nasdaq futures (NQ=F😞 8,804.00, up 221.5 points or 2.58%

• Crude oil (CL=F😞 $48.08 per barrel, up $0.90 or 1.91%

• Gold (GC=F😞 $1,648.10 per ounce, up $3.70 or 0.23%

• 10-year Treasury (^TNX): yielding 1.01%, down 0.7 bps

 

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 03: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 03, 2020 in New York City. Following a strong market surge yesterday, stocks one again fell on Wall Street as global concerns over the financial impact from the Coronavirus drive investments down. (Photo by Spencer

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-updates-march-4-2020-125211400.html

 

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2 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

Have to laugh at the MSM coverage......they really are anti Sanders......as I am.....

 

But these elections are about delegates.....not State wins.....as of this morning the count shows Biden is ahead by about 80.....yet none of the MSM is mentioning the 300+ delegates in California that haven't been awarded yet....

 

I hope Bloomberg hangs in there for a while.....Biden is a gaff machine waiting to implode as I see it.....in total.....the left is still a mess....JMO.  CL

 

No offense intended, CL.....but Biden's gaffe machine isn't nearly as loaded as Trump's, confevfe, chocker, hamberder, the beautiful wall he is building between Colorado and Mexico, telling India "It's not like you have China on your border", etc.etc. gaffe machine.....All that said, if it does come down to Uncle Joe and Donald, it should be entertaining and cringe worthy to watch.

 

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Mike Bloomberg ends presidential campaign

Brittany ShepherdNational Politics Reporter

Yahoo NewsMarch 4, 2020, 10:28 AM EST

 

 

Michael Bloomberg speaks at his Super Tuesday night rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., March 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters)

One day after a disastrous showing in Tuesday’s primaries, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former Mayor of New York City, announced he was suspending his unconventional bid for president and would endorse Super Tuesday’s surprise winner, Joe Biden.

“Three months ago, I entered the race for President to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I am leaving the race for the same reason: to defeat Donald Trump – because it is clear to me that staying in would make achieving that goal more difficult,” Bloomberg said in a statement released by his campaign.

“I’m a believer in using data to inform decisions. After yesterday’s results, the delegate math has become virtually impossible – and a viable path to the nomination no longer exists.”

Bloomberg won a smattering of delegates in several races Tuesday, including four in American Samoa, the only contest he won, but fell far short in states he had pinned his hopes on, especially North Carolina, where he was struggling to reach the 15% threshold of viability. Biden won that state, along with the most of the rest of the South.

A late entrant into the race, Bloomberg was a contender for the Democratic nomination for just under four months. In that time, he used his massive personal fortune — estimated to be around $60 billion — to bombard the nation with ads.. 

Reuters estimated that Bloomberg spent a record-shattering $452 million towards his run, $312 million of that on advertising alone. Bloomberg spent just shy of $200 million on television ads in Super Tuesday states. The campaign was betting that this unprecedented investment would be enough to win in a divided Democratic field. 

Bloomberg’s big bet, however, never paid off.

The former mayor enjoyed some strong polling earlier in the year. But after a pair of rocky debate performances in February, his standing began to dip. 

Last minute drop-outs and endorsements threw a wrench into Bloomberg’s plans as well. He had hoped to consolidate the moderate voters wary of progressive candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders. But on Saturday, in one of the contests Bloomberg elected to skip, former Vice President Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary, reinvigorating his campaign. 

In throwing his support to Biden, Bloomberg said: “I’ve always believed that defeating Donald Trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it. After yesterday’s vote, it is clear that candidate is my friend and a great American, Joe Biden.”

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, two other candidates competing for moderate Democrats, dropped out in the days after South Carolina’s primary and endorsed Biden. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, another former presidential candidate, threw his support behind Biden as well. Biden quickly surged in the polls and emerged as the centrist alternative to Sanders, who had performed strongly in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. 

As Democratic moderates began to coalesce around Biden following the South Carolina primary, Bloomberg’s reasons for staying in the race became more difficult to articulate. In a testy back and forth with reporters Tuesday morning, Bloomberg denied that he would exit the race and said that Biden was taking voters from him, not the other way around. 

“Joe’s taking votes away from me,” Bloomberg said in Miami’s Little Havana. “Have you asked Joe whether he’s going to drop out?”

“I have no intention of dropping out,” Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg spent Super Tuesday criss-crossing Florida, a state that doesn’t vote until March 17. When asked about his thoughts on the possibility of a contested Democratic convention this summer, Bloomberg admitted: “Well, I don’t think I can win any other way.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-bloomberg-ends-presidential-campaign-152849962.html

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited March 4, 2020 by Shabibilicious

[Pitcher]

One doesn’t know geography and one is clearly in mental decline. I’ll take the guy who flunked geography and has the economy and unemployment at the best levels we’ve seen in years, even with the Dems doing everything possible to thwart his Administration’s progress.  Only my opinion.  Go RV

 

 

”we better impeach Trump or he’ll win n 2020”.   Al Green Democratic Representative from Texas 9th Congressional District

 

” let’s impeach the mofo’er”.      Democratic Representative Rashida, Michigan 13th Congressional District

 

” Impeach 45”.       Democratic Representative Maxine Waters, California’s 43rd Congressial District

 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Gibberish?....You angry this morning, bro.....sound a little nervous?    Here's the link....enjoy.

 

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/state/texas

 

GO RV, then BV

Not angry at all, just your post shows up as a complete mess on my cell. Kinda like the lying mess that disperses those lies 

 

 

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

LGD.....it's proper form to quote the poster you are addressing....think of it as a "link".  

 

GO RV, then BV

I didn't know that was a forum rule, Oh wait, it's not. 

[Shabibilicious]

3 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

One doesn’t know geography and one is clearly in mental decline. I’ll take the guy who flunked geography and has the economy and unemployment at the best levels we’ve seen in years, even with the Dems doing everything possible to thwart his Administration’s progress.  Only my opinion.  Go RV

 

 

Awesome....that's how America is supposed to work....We all have choices to make and are free to make them.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

1 minute ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Not angry at all, just your post shows up as a complete mess on my cell. Kinda like the lying mess that disperses those lies 

 

 

I didn't know that was a forum rule, Oh wait, it's not. 

 

Who said anything about a forum rule?  I said "proper form"....Otherwise, the poster making the comment is like a guy standing on the street corner jabbering to himself.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[Pitcher]

7 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

Awesome....that's how America is supposed to work....We all have choices to make and are free to make them.  

 

The Dem Nomination race is not over but it looks like Biden has the backing of the DNC and we won’t have to pick between Revolution or Capitalism.  

 

Now let’ts see if Biden can survive a Ukrainian Investigation into Hunter’s activities.  Now that would throw a monkey wrench into the entire process and it might open the door for a brokered Dem Convention.  

[Shabibilicious]

1 minute ago, Pitcher said:

 

The Dem Nomination race is not over but it looks like Biden has the backing of the DNC and we won’t have to pick between Revolution or Capitalism.  

 

Now let’ts see if Biden can survive a Ukrainian Investigation into Hunter’s activities.  Now that would throw a monkey wrench into the entire process and it might open the door for a brokered Dem Convention.  

 

We'll see.  He obviously picked up the backing of the DNC....but he obviously has picked up the support of millions of moderate Democrats, as well, as the voting turnout, particularly among black voters suggests....not to mention your stomping ground, Houston.  Not bad for a guy who barely spent any money in Texas.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

8 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

The Dem Nomination race is not over but it looks like Biden has the backing of the DNC and we won’t have to pick between Revolution or Capitalism.  

 

Now let’ts see if Biden can survive a Ukrainian Investigation into Hunter’s activities.  Now that would throw a monkey wrench into the entire process and it might open the door for a brokered Dem Convention.  

 

And to your Ukranian Investigation comment.....Pretty ballsy of the DNC to put all their eggs in the Biden basket that's sure to implode in scandal, don't you think?

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited March 4, 2020 by Shabibilicious