Former Vice President Joe Biden routed U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the Arizona, Florida, and Illinois Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday.
Results at the time of this writing:
Arizona (67 Delegates)
With 70 percent reporting:
- Joe Biden – 43.2 percent (222,573) – 26 delegates
- Bernie Sanders – 30.9 percent (159,105) – 22
Florida (219 delegates)
With 99 percent reporting:
- Biden – 61.9 percent (1,070,825) – 140 delegates
- Sanders – 22.8 percent (395,069) – 48
Illinois (155 delegates)
- Biden – 59.1 percent (909,460) – 93 delegates
- Sanders – 36.1 percent (554,974) – 46
Ohio was scheduled to hold their primary on Tuesday, but Ohio Governor Mike DeWine postponed the election due to concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the state.
The next primaries in the Democratic primary race are on April 4th in Alaska, Hawaii, and Wyoming.
The current delegate count is:
- Biden – 1147
- Sanders – 861
- Elizabeth Warren – 72
- Mike Bloomberg – 61
- Pete Buttigieg – 26
- Amy Klobuchar – 7
- Tulsi Gabbard – 2
The Democratic presidential nominee will need 1,991 delegates to secure the nomination on the first ballot of the Democratic National Convention.
