It wasn’t your usual primary election day in Florida, but it happened, we voted and dozens of decisions were made within South Florida governments and Joe Biden finally advanced from being the leader in the Democrat’s race for president to on a pace to be “winning the race”. The difference being that Biden has finally reached the 50% + 1 level of pledged delegates available to be on track to win the nomination without a contested convention. Bernie saw a similar fate to Clinton's this time around. Biden came in at 61.8% and Sanders at 22.8%.
Biden’s win over Bernie proved to be even bigger than Hillary’s four years ago and has him on pace to win the nomination outright. 1990.5 pledged delegates are needed to win the nomination. After Biden’s wins in all three states voting yesterday, here’s the updated delegate scorecard.
- Biden: 1,121
- Sanders: 840
- Gabbard: 2
Biden’s now pacing 53% of the available pledged delegates after his big wins in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois. Not only is the math harder for Sanders now, so is the momentum or lack thereof for his campaign and the general narrative which was always working against him in mainstream news media and the Democrat’s establishment. In other words, it might not be over yet, but it might be three nails in the coffin for the Sanders campaign and Florida served a prominent role in making it happen. In other related news, though it was never in doubt, President Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for President after Tuesday’s results. It’s apropos that his new home state of Florida was the decisive one in officially sealing the nomination for him.
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