Sanders Poised to Sweep in High-Delegate States CA, TX, CO, VA, and in Warren's Home State Massachusetts
As March 3rd Super Tuesday approaches, Bernie Sanders is poised for a sweep of the highest delegate states in that day's Democratic primaries. Polls show Sanders has broken out of the pack with double digit leads in some of the highest delegate states, including a surprising lead over US Senator Elizabeth Warren in her home state of Massachusetts.
From poll averages posted at Real Clear Politics:
Sanders..... Biden ........Warren ........Bloomberg
30% .............10% .............17% .............12%
Sanders .......Biden ..........Warren .........Bloomberg
30% ................21% ..............13% .............18%
Sanders .......Biden ...........Warren ...........Bloomberg
30% ................10% ................17% .................12%
Sanders ..........Biden ...........Warren ...........Bloomberg
25% ....................11% .............21% .....................12%
Sanders ..........Biden ............Warren ............Bloomberg
25% ....................18% ................11% .....................19%
Super Tuesday follows Saturday's contest in South Carolina which was won by Joe Biden, who announced a rebirth of his moribund campaign. But a massive number of delegates are at stake on Tuesday which eclipse the small state. In these, Sanders is well out in front going into the last quarter of the last lap.
In other news, progressive comedian Jimmy Dore has accused Elizabeth Warren of lying about Sanders' stance on how Democratic Convention super-delegates should vote, should no candidate achieve a majority of pledged delegates on the first convention vote. Sanders said in 2016 that a state's super-delegates should go to the candidate who got the most votes, it be a plurality or a majority.
Warren has claimed that Sanders had a hand in writing the present Convention rules in a manner which allows super-delegates to snatch the nomination from the candidate with the plurality of votes, which Dore demonstrates is false by replaying archival video.
