The decisive immediate call for Biden in Virginia was a bit of a surprise, and an early confirmation that the surge in his direction is very real
It wasn’t close in the Commonwealth. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The first two poll closings in Super Tuesday states were Vermont and Virginia, both at 7 p.m. ET. Networks called both instantly based on exit polls. One of those was expected: Bernie Sanders, of course, is winning his home state with a comfortable majority of the vote. Perhaps the only interesting thing there is that Elizabeth Warren is leading Michael Bloomberg for third place, behind Sanders and Biden.
Among the African-American voters that Sanders and Bloomberg were both showing signs of progress in tearing away from the former veep, Biden did especially well, winning an estimated 63 percent as compared to 18 percent for Sanders and 10 percent for Bloomberg. Sanders did win his customary majority among under-30 voters, but Biden trumped that by winning an amazing 71 percent among seniors, who represented nearly twice as large an element of the primary electorate as Bernie’s kids.
With a history of electing moderate Democrats, Virginia is emblematic of the states that Bloomberg is counting on to bolster his centrist campaign on Tuesday as his name appears for the first time on ballots across the country.Over the past decade, he has poured more than $10 million into Virginia’s political wars, helping Democrats win a majority last year in both chambers of the state’s General Assembly for the first time in a generation.
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