Daily Mail - 05.03.2020

Daily Mail, Thursday, March 5, 2020^ Page 23

Mr Sanders promises a huge

increase in public spending on

areas such as free university

education and healthcare, as

well as a heavy wealth tax and

company shares for workers.

Many believe his far-Left

agenda simply makes him une-

lectable as president.

The Sanders campaign has

accused the Democratic estab-

lishment of plotting to ensure

he doesn’t get the nomination,

as it did when he stood against

Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Mr Trump, who repeated this

claim in a tweet yesterday,

would prefer to fight Mr Sand-

ers, against whom he can find

far more ammunition.

Mr Sanders, for example, has

praised Fidel Castro’s govern-

ment and other Left-wing

Latin American foes of the US

and he honeymooned in the

Soviet Union with his wife.

A video has been unearthed

showing a semi-naked Mr

Sanders at a table strewn with

vodka bottles during this trip,

having a noisy post-sauna din-

ner with his communist hosts.

During the same trip, he

delivered a fierce condemna-

tion of US foreign intervention.

All of this would be perfect fod-

der for the Republicans’ ruth-

less attack machine.

Mr Biden and Mr Sanders are

not only ideologically far apart,

they’re also very different per-

sonalities. While Mr Sanders

seems permanently about to

explode with outrage, Mr

Biden’s main strengths are per-

ceived to be his empathy and

ability to connect with people.

As both try to widen their

support base so they can win

the contest outright, it is Mr

S a n d e r s – s e e m i n g l y t h e

unstoppable front-runner a

couple of days ago – who now

faces the greater challenge.

the race for President. I could

have told him long ago that

he didn’t have what it takes,

and he would have saved

himself a billion dollars.

‘Now he will pour money

into Sleepy Joe’s campaign,

hoping to save face. It won’t

work!’. Last night, Elizabeth

Warren, who failed to win her

home state Massachusetts,

was also on the verge of

pulling out – turning it into a

race between Mr Biden and

socialist Bernie Sanders.

It is not clear if Mr Bloomb-

erg, who is is worth around

$60billion (£47billion), would

re-allocate all his funds to Mr

Biden’s campaign.

Bloomberg bows out after £400m campaign

Back in

the game:

Joe Biden

celebrates

with wife Jill,

left, and his

sister Valerie

WASHINGTON

OREGON

IDAHO

MONTANA

WYOMING

UTAH

NEVADA

CALIFORNIA

ARIZONA

COLORADO

NEW MEXICO OKLAHOMA

KANSAS

NEBRASKA

SOUTH DAKOTA

IOWA

WISCONSIN

INDIANA

MICHIGAN

ILLINOIS

PENNSYLVANIA

NEW YORK

WESTVIRGINIA

KENTUCKY

NORTH CAROLINA

SOUTHCAROLINA

MISSISSIPPI

FLORIDA

LOUISIANA

MAINE

MISSOURI

HOW THEY VOTED ON ‘SUPER TUESDAY’

Tennessee

North

Carolina

Virginia

Massachusetts

Oklahoma

Minnesota

Arkansas

Alabama

Texas

Maine

■To secure the

nomination,

a Democrat

candidate

needs the

votes of 1,991

delegates

Voted for Joe Biden

Voted for Bernie Sanders Still to vote

Awaiting result

California

South

Carolina*

Vermont

Nevada*

Colorado

Utah

New Hampshire*

HOW IT WORKS

In primary

elections, voters

place their vote

at a polling

station or by post

in their local

area. Until Super

Tuesday, just 155

delegates had

been announced

in four states –

Iowa, Nevada,

New Hampshire

and South

Carolina-but on

Super Tuesday

1,357 delegates

are distributed

with 14 states

voting on the

same day.

0 delegates 500 1,000 1,500 2,000

1,991

566

501

The next primaries

will take place on March

10 in Michigan,

Washington state, Idaho,

Mississippi, Missouri

and North Dakota.

Joe

Biden

Bernie

Sanders

* voted before Super Tuesday

Biden is favourite to

take on Trump after

his Super Tuesday