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FiveThirtyEight:
What Went Down On Super Tuesday — Want the latest politics news? Get it in your inbox. — Get more FiveThirtyEight — Store
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NBC News:
Live Blog / 2020 Super Tuesday live updates: Biden wins the South, Mass., Sanders takes Vt., Colo., Utah, NBC News projects — More than 1,300 delegates — or about a third of the total — are at play on Super Tuesday. — Fourteen states and one territory held nominating contests …
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Politico, Power Line, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos, Associated Press, Breitbart, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and The Hill
CBS News:
Live updates: Biden and Sanders pick up wins in first Super Tuesday states — The first polls have closed in the Super Tuesday states of Virginia and Vermont. CBS News projects Joe Biden will win Virginia and North Carolina and Bernie Sanders will win Vermont.
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Washington Free Beacon, FiveThirtyEight, National Review, CBS Boston, The Week, CNN, WCCO | CBS Minnesota and WREG-TV
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Warren team turns grim after Super Tuesday wipeout — Elizabeth Warren had a plan for winning. It didn't work: In 18 nomination contests, she hasn't finished above third place — including in her home state. — Now, she's facing political and financial pressures to get out.
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National Review, Townhall, The Daily Caller, The Week and BuzzFeed News
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Bernie Chokes — The revolution will have to wait. — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) fell short of expectations on Super Tuesday, failing to prevent former vice president Joe Biden from fighting his way back into contention in the Democratic primary. Decisive victories in several key states …
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NBC News, New York Times and The Federalist
New York Times:
Biden Revives Campaign, Winning Nine States, but Sanders Takes California
Biden Revives Campaign, Winning Nine States, but Sanders Takes California
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The Atlantic and The Boston Globe
Ledyard King / USA Today:
Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders' losses
Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders' losses
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The Dispatch, NBC News, No More Mister Nice Blog and NPR
Washington Post:
Exit polls from the 2020 Democratic Super Tuesday contests
Exit polls from the 2020 Democratic Super Tuesday contests
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Vox, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, CalMatters, The Week and New York Post
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Joe Biden's historic and unbelievable political comeback dominates Super Tuesday
Joe Biden's historic and unbelievable political comeback dominates Super Tuesday
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KTLA, fox8.com and The Guardian
NBC News:
LGBTQ voters flock to Bernie Sanders, NBC News Exit Poll finds
LGBTQ voters flock to Bernie Sanders, NBC News Exit Poll finds
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The Hill and NewNowNext
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Fantastic Night . . . If You Don't Like Bloomberg, Warren, or Sanders
NBC News:
NBC News Exit Poll: Late-deciding Super Tuesday voters break heavily for Biden
NBC News Exit Poll: Late-deciding Super Tuesday voters break heavily for Biden
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, HuffPost and BuzzFeed News
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Joe Biden fundraisers see millions of dollars in new commitments with Super Tuesday surge
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Democrats Decide That Joe Biden, as Risky as He Ever Was, Is the Safest Bet
Democrats Decide That Joe Biden, as Risky as He Ever Was, Is the Safest Bet
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Washington Post, ABC News and IJR
Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
AP source: Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results — Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg waves to supporters as he arrives to his campaign rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)
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Politico:
Bloomberg considering dropping out after Biden rout — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Mike Bloomberg is weighing dropping out as early as Wednesday after losing a string of Super Tuesday states where he invested a fortune in advertising, according to several people familiar with his plans.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Sanders can't lead the Democrats if his campaign treats them like the enemy — What Bernie needs to learn from Biden. — Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have been running very different kinds of campaigns, built on very different ambitions. Biden's been running to lead the Democratic Party more or less as it exists today.
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Washington Post, The Week and The Daily Caller
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Four reasons why Biden shocked Sanders — On Tuesday night Joe Biden engineered one of the most monumental political comebacks in the history of party primaries. The scale of his Super Tuesday rout over three well-funded and hyper-organized Democrats — Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren — has no comparison.
Hallie Jackson / NBC News:
Trump camp publicly batting down Joe-mentum but privately concerned — We know President Donald Trump has been watching the Super Tuesday returns roll in — he predicted earlier that it would be an “interesting evening of television” — as he goes after both Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren on Twitter.
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The Hill
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Will Risk Making Ross Perot and Ralph Nader Look Good”: Bloomberg Resists Advisers' Push to Exit the Race — With his path disappearing after South Carolina, advisers pressed for a quick exit. But Mike has so far refused: I'll be damned if I walk away before a single vote is cast for me.
Bonchie / Redstate:
Stop Gaslighting, Joe Biden Is Still Joe Biden and He's Not Ok
Stop Gaslighting, Joe Biden Is Still Joe Biden and He's Not Ok
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Dot and New York Magazine
Politico:
'I've never seen anybody mount a comeback like this — ever'
'I've never seen anybody mount a comeback like this — ever'
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FiveThirtyEight and CNBC
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump shifts his attention to surging Biden, stokes Sanders grievances
Trump shifts his attention to surging Biden, stokes Sanders grievances
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Spectator USA, The Hill, PJ Media Home and HuffPost
Detroit News:
Poll: Biden leads Sanders in Michigan ahead of Democratic primary
Poll: Biden leads Sanders in Michigan ahead of Democratic primary
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The Atlantic and The Hill
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Twitter suspends liberal journalist for quoting Joe Biden gaffe
Twitter suspends liberal journalist for quoting Joe Biden gaffe
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New York Post
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Voter turnout in Virginia nearly doubles from 2016
Voter turnout in Virginia nearly doubles from 2016
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POLITICUSUSA, Vox, Breitbart and The Week
Tim Mak / NPR:
Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba — Audio will be available later today. — American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Sen. Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when he came to visit him behind bars.
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Disease Caused by Virus Is Deadlier Than the Flu — The World Health Organization announced on Tuesday that the global death rate of the new coronavirus was 3.4 percent. — RIGHT NOW Deaths outside China exceeded those inside the country for the first time since the start of the outbreak.
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CBS News:
Pierce Bush is first Bush to lose Texas race in over 40 years — Austin, Texas — Republican Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, failed to advance out of Tuesday's primary in his bid for a Houston congressional seat, becoming the first member of his family to lose a race in Texas in more than 40 years.
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Susannah George / Washington Post:
U.S. targets Taliban with airstrike days after peace deal — KABUL — The United States conducted an airstrike against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan Wednesday just days after the two sides signed a peace deal. — The strike comes just hours after President Trump spoke …
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Democratic Primary Voters Decisively Rejected the Media's Favorite Candidates — As Super Tuesday finally transfigures the Democratic presidential nomination process into a binary choice between two old, occasionally problematic white men whose enduring popularity is consistently underrated …
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Vox
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J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
Bloomberg on Warren: 'I didn't realize she's still in'
Bloomberg on Warren: 'I didn't realize she's still in'
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Politico, Fox News, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, IJR, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Caller
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why Elizabeth Warren is losing even if all your friends love her
Why Elizabeth Warren is losing even if all your friends love her
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Outside the Beltway, PJ Media Home, Washington Post and CNN
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Jill Biden's epic tussle: In split-second blocking maneuver, she protects husband from lunging vegans — It could have been a scene out of the romantic thriller “The Bodyguard,” except the hero of the moment in this case was not a trained agent but Jill Biden.
Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
South Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar defeats Jessica Cisneros, progressive challenger backed by Warren and AOC — Rep. Kay Granger of Fort Worth also emerged victorious in a GOP primary against a former Colleyville council member, and the Bush family dynasty couldn't win outside of Houston.
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Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
Live: Texas State Primary Election Results 2020
Live: Texas State Primary Election Results 2020
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Politico:
Trump launches an urgent fight to save his ticket to reelection — Eight months from a general election, President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are considering an urgent effort to rescue the U.S. economy from a coronavirus panic. — Trump advisers and GOP lawmakers have spent …
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Washington Post, Letters from an American, New York Post and The Hill
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The Daily Beast:
Inside the Chris Matthews Exit: MSNBC Boss Went to D.C. to Plead With Him to Quit — The “Hardball” host's wife had long expressed concerns to MSNBC brass that Matthews' increasingly controversial on-air antics would ruin him, sources told The Daily Beast. — The painful end …
John Sharp / al.com:
Alabama Senate race headed for GOP runoff on March 31 — Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session's quest to return to the U.S. Senate will likely face a stiff challenge on March 31 in a competitive runoff against former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville.
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Tight Alabama GOP Senate race poised for Round 2 as Sessions, Tuberville head to runoff
Tight Alabama GOP Senate race poised for Round 2 as Sessions, Tuberville head to runoff
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Politico, The Daily Beast and The Week
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘One orb, slightly used’: MBS book reveals fate of Trump's mysterious Saudi sphere — Saudis gave gadget that briefly captivated the internet to the US - but embassy officials fearful of scandal soon hid it away — The mysterious glowing orb which Donald Trump, King Salman …