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With Bloomberg’s departure, pressure is on third-placed Elizabeth Warren whose White House hopes have dwindled US death toll climbs to 11 as California declares state of emergency Senior ICC judges authorise Afghanistan war crimes inquiry Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution 3.39pm GMT Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has taken to the Senate […] More
There is little reason to assume ‘Joementum’ will die off soon – but gaffes have killed his earlier runs and could still kill this one too Super Tuesday was a powerful reminder that Twitter is not the real world. Of course, we knew this, or could have known this. Pew Research had shown several times […] More
No one can definitively say at this point who will be the Democratic presidential nominee this year Political prognostication is perilous. Less than a week ago, the conventional wisdom among American pundits and pollsters was that the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders was cruising toward the Democratic presidential nomination. Then came Super Tuesday. Joe Biden won […] More
A big win in the state could help the senator stay afloat. But nothing is certain as counting continues: ‘It’s like a black box’ Bernie Sanders was declared the winner in California just moments after polls closed but his final haul of delegates could remain uncertain for days, or even weeks, as election officials tally […] More
Several factors are to blame, including ageing equipment and insufficient resources which forced some to be turned away Voters in Texas and California faced long lines at the polls on Super Tuesday with some waiting several hours or longer to cast their ballots in the vital primary elections: a phenomenon that has triggered renewed concern […] More
The former New York mayor could have paid off student loans for 150,000 people or bought houses for 2,200 homeless people Follow live updates on the 2020 US election There wasn’t much good news on Super Tuesday for the more progressive wing of the Democratic party, save for one lesson: money on its own, mercifully, […] More
The former vice-president staged a comeback as Democrats fear a repeat of the 2016 struggle between Sanders and Clinton Joe Biden has staged one of the greatest comebacks in modern political history to become the front runner of the Democratic presidential race after winning a majority of the crucial Super Tuesday primary elections. A week […] More
Biden won South Carolina – and days later, Super Tuesday – after Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American Democrat in Congress, backed him When the House majority whip, Jim Clyburn, endorsed Joe Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary it effectively set off a series of events that resulted in the former vice-president trouncing his […] More
