From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.

Today, the results of Super Tuesday make clear that the democratic race for president

is increasingly a battle between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.

Alex Burns, on how the biggest night of the primary, unfolded,

it's Wednesday, March 4th.

Alex, tonight we're going to do things, I guess I should say, this morning.

We're going to do things a little bit differently given the tender hour.

I believe the concept known to audio people is live to tape. So basically,

I'm going to ask you perfectly formed questions and you are going to deliver perfectly formed answers.

That's the usual. That's our usual routine. Exactly. Exactly. I've never been edited. You've never

been edited. Okay. At this point, the results are in, for I think about 11 to 14 states. We're

waiting on Maine. California has been called for Sanders, although I think about half the vote is

still out. And in Texas, about 90% of the vote is in. So let's start with the big picture.

What is the story that the results so far tell us about Super Tuesday?

I think the very big picture of the results is that the Joe Biden comeback is very, very real.

And that in the space of just a couple of days, he put together a really powerful coalition that

won him states in virtually every part of the country in a way that just a week ago would have

seemed almost unimaginable. In other words, the momentum that Biden started to pick up in South

Carolina that really carried through here. It really did. And he needed every bit of it because

we may be headed for something of an immovable object, unstoppable force situation with Biden

building all this momentum and just colliding with the wall of support that Bernie Sanders has

built for himself that we saw on display in a pretty convincing way in a number of states as well,

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