Biden challenges Sanders as Super Tuesday voting gets under way
Joe Biden has emerged as a top threat after a big win on Saturday
03 March 2020 - 23:19
Washington — Bernie Sanders was looking to cement his lead in the Democratic US presidential race as the biggest round of voting got under way on Tuesday, while his main rival Joe Biden aimed to muscle aside billionaire former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and consolidate support from the party's moderate wing.
In Super Tuesday nominating contests across 14 states, from Maine in the East to the delegate-rich prize of California in the West, the Democratic battle to find a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump in the November 3 election became a national competition for the first time...
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