By Raul Castillo
05 Mar 2024, 21:48 PM EST
As predicted, President Joe Biden is headed toward a landslide victory in the Democratic Party primaries on Super Tuesday. According to projections from media such as NBC News or Telemundo, the president, candidate for re-election, has already won at least 10 of the 14 states in dispute this Tuesday.
According to the NBC and Fox networks, Biden has been declared the winner in the primaries in Virginia and Vermont, where the polling stations closed at 7:00 p.m. on the east coast of the country (00:00 GMT on Wednesday), and also in North Carolina, where The closing occurred half an hour later.
In Virginia, where 99 delegates were at stake, Biden won 96% of the vote. This is a traditionally Democratic state. In the 2020 election, for example, Biden won there with 54.15% of the vote, and by a margin of 10.2% over Trump, the best result for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, according to Telemundo.
In Texas, which distributes the largest number of Democratic delegates, with 244, the president has obtained 84% of the votes with 53% of the first part of the counting.
Biden has so far also surpassed 90% of the votes in North Carolina (92% and 116 delegates) and Teennesse (96% and 63 delegates).
In Vermont, the president won 84% of the vote, according to NBC News projection. He was also the winner in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts and Colorado.
Follow the results from the White House
Biden was practically assured of victory by not facing significant rivals. Along with him on the ballot were the names of Dean Phillips, a congressman from Minnesota, and Marianne Williamson, an author of self-help books who already ran unsuccessfully in the 2020 primary.
Earlier, Biden’s team had announced that the president was following the results of Super Tuesday minute by minute from the White House.
“You will be kept informed and aware of what happens tonight as we watch elections taking place across the country,” said spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre.
Super Tuesday is the day in which most states vote in the primaries to elect the Democratic and Republican candidates for the White House, which this year, barring any surprise, will be Biden and Trump.
Traditionally, Super Tuesday was a turning point in the presidential race, given that more than 35% of the delegates are divided to choose the candidates of the two parties, but this year both nominations are almost closed.
With information from EFE.
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