[Update added on February 25, 2020 at 00:59 Swiss time: With 100% reporting, all votes counted, according to AP, Bernie Senders wins 46.8% and 24 delegates, Joe Biden 20.2% and 9 delegates, Pete Buttigieg 14.3% and 3 delegates, Elizabeth Warren 9.7% and 0 delegates, Tom Steyer 4.7% and 0 delegates, Amy Klobuchar 4.2% and 0 delegates].
With 60% of the votes in, Associated Press (AP) reports that the self-declared Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont wins Nevada with 46% and is running clearly ahead of the field. Former vice-president Joe Biden comes in a distant second with 19.6%. Former small-town mayor Pete Buttigieg is third with 15.3%. Senator Elizabeth Warren is fourth with 10.1%. Senator Amy Klobuchar with 4.8% and hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer with 4.1% are fifth and sixth.
After the Nevada presidential debate in Las Vegas, I wrote: With Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar all fighting for the centrist vote, Bernie Sanders could have a “boulevard” ahead of him because, on the left of the party, Elizabeth Warren looks weak. Trump vs. Sanders, that’s not really the duel centrist voters are looking for.
As it looks like right now, this is exactly what happened. Bernie Sanders is the hot favorite on Super Tuesday. Bloomberg got a beating in the Nevada debate, without contesting votes there. His first and at the same decisive test will be Super Tuesday.
Predictions are difficult, especially regarding the future :). If Bernie Sanders should come up first again on Super Tuesday, he could already be unstoppable. One third of the delegates are up for grabs and will only be awarded to candidates winning over 15% of the vote.
Bernie Sanders: Where We Go from Here. Two Years in the Resistance. Thomas Dunne Books, November 2018, 284 pages. Order the Kindle eBook from Amazon.com. Order the paperback re-print edition from September 2019 from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk.
Eleanor Randolph: The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg. Simon & Schuster, September 2019, 480 pages. Order the Kindle eBook from Amazon.com. Order the hardcover edition from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr.
Article added on February 23, 2020 at 16:27 German time.
