Joe Biden dominates Super Tuesday and wins in most states

Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden won on Tuesday, 3, the Democratic Party primaries in most states of the so-called Super Tuesday. A favorite in several polls, Senator Bernie Sanders has appeared ahead in at least three states. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won in American Samoa, a small Pacific territory, and Elizabeth Warren , a Massachusetts senator, did not appear in the lead in any state - the two must review their candidacies.

Biden achieved important victories in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Minnesotta, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas. Sanders, on the other hand, made his mark in Vermont, where he is a senator, and also in Colorado and Utah.

US media projections point to a victory for Sanders also in California, the state with the highest number of delegates this Super Tuesday, 415 in total. The counting, however, can take days to finish, because there are 53 districts in total for the count to be completed.

In Texas, another state with a large number of delegates, where Sanders took advantage at the start of the vote count, Biden recovered and won surprisingly. As of 4:40 am on Wednesday, the counting in the state of Maine was not over yet and was fierce, with a slight advantage for the former vice president.

Democratic voters from fourteen states speak out in what is known as Super Tuesday to elect the candidate who will challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November elections.

“It's a good night and it looks like it will be even better! They don't call it 'Super Tuesday' for nothing, ”celebrated Biden in front of supporters in Los Angeles after the announcement of the first projections. Sanders, on the other hand, despite the defeat, remained confident in front of the supporters: "Today, I affirm that I have absolute confidence that I will win the Democratic nomination," he declared in Vermont.

On Super Tuesday, fourteen states vote - in addition to the unincorporated territory of American Samoa and Democrats residing abroad - to elect 1,357 delegates to the July Democratic convention, a third of the total. Each state distributes the following number of delegates: Alabama, 52; Arkansas, 31; California, 415; North Carolina, 110; Colorado, 67; Maine, 24; Massachusetts, 91; Minnesotta, 75; Oklahoma, 37; Tennessee, 64; Texas, 228; Utah, 29; Vermont, 16; Virginia, 99; and American Samoa, 6.

At least 1,991 delegates are required to obtain the party's presidential candidacy.