by Tyler Hale
It’s still early, but former Vice President Joe Biden is making a strong showing on Super Tuesday.
Biden is currently projected to win at least three primaries in Southern states. Polls from the New York Times, Fox News, CNN and NPR have projected that Biden will win the primaries in Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama.
According to CNN’s polling, Biden has captured 32.2 percent of the vote in North Carolina compared to 23.3 percent for Sanders and 17.2 percent for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. At the time of this article’s writing, only 36 percent of North Carolina’s votes had been reported.
Multiple outlets have called Alabama in Biden’s favor. However, the state has reported less than 1 percent of its votes thus far.
Virginia is a clearer win for Biden, who received 53.9 percent of the state’s vote. Sanders managed 23.1 percent and Warren had only 10.6 percent. Currently, 93 percent of Virginia’s votes are reported.
Sanders has racked up a win in his home state of Vermont with 51.7 percent of the vote. Biden trailed him with 22.4 percent of the vote. Only 45 percent of the votes had been reported as of 7:45 p.m.
The three primary races that Biden has won, in total, amount to 261 delegates. To be named the Democratic Party nominee, a candidate requires 1,991 total delegates.
The Super Tuesday primaries will be a major battlefield for the Democratic candidates with more than 1,300 delegates at stake. The states that participate in Super Tuesday voting represent a total of 1,338 delegates. These states include Arkansas, Alabama, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Utah.
Results for Arkansas are still too early to call.