Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Wednesday, February 12th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

The Democratic presidential primary race

has a new frontrunner after yesterday's vote in New Hampshire.

Lift hits a milestone but still expects to lose money,

and electric scooter companies are bracing for our crackdown in Germany.

Plus, from biotechs working on vaccines to telemedicine companies caring for the sick stuck at home,

investors are bidding up companies working to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus outbreak.

The FTS Hannah Cushler will explain. I'm Mark Philippino, and here's

the news you need to start your day.

Bernie Sanders has claimed victory in the first primary of the 2020 Democratic presidential

nomination race.

And this is a movement from coast to coast which is demanding that we finally have an economy

and a government that works for all of us not wealthy campaign contributors.

At the time of this recording, the 78-year-old senator from Vermont had taken about a quarter of the vote in the New Hampshire primary.

Close on his heels was the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana,

38-year-old Pete Budajajevichar.

Amy Klobuchar, the US senator from Minnesota,

kept the race tight. She raked in roughly 20% of the vote.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, once considered a frontrunner, finished fifth behind

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

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