Polls have in all the Super Tuesday except for California, the night’s biggest prize with 415 delegates. CBS News projects Joe Biden picked up early wins in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma. CBS News projects Bernie Sanders will win his home state of Vermont and Colorado.
Polls have also closed in Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Texas and Utah. Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren’s home state, is leaning toward Biden. Minnesota is also leaning toward Biden.
Texas, the biggest prize so far with 228 delegates, is a toss-up between Biden and Sanders. CBS News estimates Maine is also toss-ups between Biden and Sanders.
Mike Bloomberg and Tulsi Gabbard picked up their first delegate wins in the American Samoa caucuses. Bloomberg was awarded four delegates while Gabbard was awarded one.
More than 1,300 delegates are at stake tonight — over 30% of all the pledged delegates available — making it one of the most important days of the primary season. Only 155 delegates are awarded in the first four voting contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
There are five Democratic candidates left in the race: Sanders, Biden, Warren, Bloomberg and Gabbard. Sanders is the front-runner in the race so far, having won the popular vote in Iowa and then decisive victories in New Hampshire and Nevada. But Biden pulled out a big victory in South Carolina, winning nearly 50% of the vote, and on the eve of Super Tuesday, he received the endorsement of three former opponents, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke, in a show of unity for moderates.
