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CBS News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden has was the Arkansas Democratic presidential primary race. Biden defeated a congested field of Democratic presidential hopefuls in Arkansas, including Mike Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Tulsi Gabbard. Biden has gained support from two of the state’s top Democratic figures, former U.S. Sen. and Gov. David Pryor and his son, former …

The Associated Press reports: Joe Biden has won Minnesota’s Democratic presidential primary. The state has 75 delegates at stake. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s abrupt withdrawal from the presidential race gave Bernie Sanders a sudden opportunity to lock up her home state on Super Tuesday. Instead, Biden won the state after receiving Klobuchar’s endorsement. Sanders easily won Minnesota’s caucuses in 2016 …

NBC News reports: NBC News is projecting former Vice President Joe Biden has won the Democratic primary in the State of Tennessee. With 24 percent of the vote in, Biden has 31 percent of the vote, a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders with 24 percent of the vote. At that point, Mike Bloomberg had 20 percent of the vote and …

Axios reports: Joe Biden has won the Oklahoma Democratic primary with 37 delegates at stake, according to AP. The big picture: The state was too close to call when polls closed at 8 pm ET, but it ultimately was called as another victory for Biden. Sen. Bernie Sanders had won the state by 18 points over Hillary Clinton in 2016, …

The Associated Press reports: Bernie Sanders is the winner of the Colorado Democratic presidential primary, the Associated Press has projected. The U.S. senator from Vermont received 32% of the vote in results released as voting ended at 7 p.m., with Joe Biden at 27%, Michael Bloomberg at 21%, Elizabeth Warren at 16% and Tulsi Gabbard at 1%. The rest of …

CNN reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden will win Alabama, CNN projects. There are 52 delegates at stake in Alabama. This is his third win of the night. CNN projected that Biden will win North Carolina and Virginia. Who won 2016: Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary, and Donald Trump won the Republican primary. Breaking: Biden projected to win North …

Here’s probably how it happened: American Samoan chief Fa’alagiga Nina Tua’au-Glaude on Monday endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president, a day ahead of the U.S. territory’s Super Tuesday vote. The chief, who was a delegate for President Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, said he believes in Bloomberg’s “message of change for the people of American Samoa.” “I believe in …

CNBC reports: Joe Biden will win the North Carolina Democratic primary, according to an NBC News projection, giving him another one of the biggest states on Super Tuesday. After his win in South Carolina on Saturday and his projected win in Virginia earlier Tuesday, it represents continued dominance for the former vice president in southern states. With 110 delegates up …

The New York Times reports: The Democratic presidential candidates are bracing themselves: It’s Super Tuesday, the biggest election day on the party’s primary calendar, with California, Texas, North Carolina and 11 other states and one territory voting. Polls start closing at 7 p.m. Eastern, in Vermont, Virginia and parts of Alabama. We should start getting results soon after that, and …

The Hill reports: Former FBI Director James Comey on Super Tuesday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary, but Biden’s campaign cheekily asked to “return” the endorsement. Comey, who left the Republican Party over Trump in 2018, voted in his first Democratic primary on Tuesday, tweeting that he supports the party “dedicated to restoring values” to the …

Mediaite reports: Appearing on Good Morning America to promote her new documentary series, Hillary Clinton renewed her criticism of Bernie Sanders. Interviewer Linsey Davis asked Clinton about Sanders saying that the candidate with the most pledged delegates entering the convention should be the nominee. “That’s quite a bit of a change in his stance from 2016,” Davis observed. That remark …

The New York Times reports: Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, who became a progressive star in his spirited race against Senator Ted Cruz before mounting a less-successful presidential campaign, will endorse Joseph R. Biden Jr. and appear with him in Dallas Monday night, according to two Democratic officials familiar with his plans. Mr. O’Rourke, who dropped out of the …

Morning Consult reports: Democratic primary voters appear to be giving former Vice President Joe Biden another look after his victory in the South Carolina presidential primary and ahead of the key Super Tuesday contests. A Morning Consult poll conducted Sunday found 26 percent of Democratic primary voters nationwide said they’d vote for Biden if the Democratic primary or caucus were …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Sen. Amy Klobuchar abruptly quit the presidential race on Monday and threw her support to Joe Biden, as centrist Democrats began banding together in an effort to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders. She will join Biden in Dallas on Monday night for a rally at Gilley’s honkytonk on the eve of Super Tuesday, as the former …

CNN reports: Sen. Amy Klobuchar will end her presidential bid on Monday and endorse Joe Biden, a campaign aide tells CNN. The Klobuchar campaign confirmed that the senator is flying to Dallas to join the former vice president at his rally, where she will suspend her campaign and give her endorsement on the eve of Super Tuesday. Breaking News: Amy …

CNN reports: Former President Barack Obama did something this weekend that he’s been unable to do so far in the Democratic primary race: Call former Vice President Joe Biden and offer his congratulations. While the two men speak regularly, the call from Obama on Saturday night came after Biden’s victory in South Carolina. But the words of praise for Biden’s …

Politico reports: Sen. Amy Klobuchar canceled a rally in her home state Sunday night as several dozen protesters chanted “Black Lives Matter,” “Klobuchar has got to go” and “Free Myon” — referencing the case of a black teenager convicted of murder after a flawed police investigation. According to videos that emerged on social media, the senator’s rally was set in …

The Indianapolis Star reports: A day after a lackluster performance in South Carolina, Pete Buttigieg will suspend his presidential campaign, IndyStar has learned. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is heading back to his hometown around 8:30 p.m. today to deliver the announcement at the Century Center. “Pete believes this is the right thing to do for our country,” …

The Atlantic reports: Not so long ago, Donald Trump seemed obsessed with just one of the Democrats vying to replace him: Joe Biden. Over the past year, as the former vice president became the front-runner, Trump’s campaign spent about $270,000 on Facebook ads targeting Biden—more than it spent against other top candidates. Then Biden began to collapse and Bernie Sanders …

The New York Times reports: Pete Buttigieg, the former small-city Indiana mayor and first openly gay major presidential candidate, has decided to quit the Democratic race, a person briefed on Mr. Buttigieg’s plans said on Sunday, following a crushing loss in the South Carolina primary where his poor performance with black Democrats signaled an inability to build a broad coalition …