Biden wins big on Super Tuesday, sweeping the South and beating Sanders and Warren in Massachusetts
The Daily 202's Big Idea
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🗓️ 4 March 2020
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| 0:00.0 | The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by DXC technology. |
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| 0:06.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Wednesday, March 4th. |
| 0:16.4 | In today's news, Vice President Pence says any American can get tested for the coronavirus if a doctor orders it. |
| 0:25.0 | President Trump speaks by phone with a leader of the Taliban, |
| 0:29.0 | and the Supreme Court will hear arguments today |
| 0:31.0 | in a case that could roll back row the way. But first, the big idea. |
| 0:40.8 | Joe Biden swept the South and did surprisingly well in New England and the upper Midwest on Super Tuesday. |
| 0:49.5 | He appears poised to seize control of the Democratic presidential race and overtake |
| 0:54.9 | Bernie Sanders as the delegate leader. Sanders is on track to win California, the |
| 1:01.1 | state with the biggest delegate hall of the primaries, all the votes are being slowly counted there. |
| 1:06.0 | But Biden's victories in Texas and eight other states threatened at a minimum to erase the lopsided delegate advantage that Sanders hoped to gain from the day. |
| 1:16.0 | The results set up a more vigorous fight ahead that presents the party with divergent choices, |
| 1:21.2 | a two-man race between a pragmatist vowing a return to normalcy and a |
| 1:25.8 | populist promising a revolution. Sanders easily won his home state, Vermont and carried |
| 1:32.0 | Colorado and Utah. But Biden's victories were |
| 1:35.3 | significant and widespread, with a string of states across the South offering an |
| 1:40.0 | early confirmation that is win three days earlier in South Carolina |
| 1:43.6 | had swiftly and dramatically reshaped the contest. |
| 1:47.0 | Biden was winning by double digits in the states of Virginia, |
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