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Super Tuesday: Joe Biden Projected to Win Virginia, While Bernie Sanders Takes Vermont

Former Vice President Joe Biden was projected to win Virginia as soon as polls closed there on Tuesday night. Sen. Bernie Sanders was declared the winner in his home state of Vermont by several news networks.

Fourteen states are voting on Tuesday, with some 1,344 delegates at stake — more than a third of the total.

The next polls to close will be North Carolina at 7:30. The big prize is California, where Sen. Bernie Sanders hopes to score a major win with the aid of Latinos and young voters.

Biden seemed left for dead after he finished fourth and fifth in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively. But he has revived his campaign over the last 72 hours, following a blowout win in South Carolina on Saturday. On Monday, he picked up endorsements from three former candidates — Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke — in a strong signal for moderates consolidated around his candidacy.

“We need somebody who can beat Donald Trump,” O’Rourke told a crowd in Dallas on Monday night. “In Joe Biden, we have that man. We have someone who is the antithesis of Donald Trump.”

Biden is expected to address a crowd in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, Biden is set to attend a Hollywood fundraiser at the home of Sherry Lansing. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, are co-hosting the event.

Sanders, meanwhile, voted in Vermont on Tuesday morning and is holding a rally there this evening.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren voted on Tuesday morning in her home state of Massachusetts, before heading to Detroit. Michigan is the largest of six states set to vote on March 10. Warren appeared on “Ellen” and on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” during a swing through Los Angeles on Monday, and spoke at a rally in East Los Angeles on Monday night.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared on the ballot for the first time on Tuesday.

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