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Bernie Sanders wins Colorado primary, Biden wins Super Tuesday

Austin Fleskes, Ravyn Cullor, Laura Studley, and Serena Bettis

March 3, 2020

This article is accurate to results as of Wednesday night. It will be updated as complete primary results are finalized. Latest update as of 11:00 p.m.

After the first major primaries night across the nation, Super Tuesday saw Bernie Sanders winning Colorado while Joe Biden took a majority of the other states up for primaries as of 11 p.m. on Wednesday.

Sanders won Colorado with over 30% of the vote, coming in over 10 points higher than his closest competitors, Biden and Mike Bloomberg. Sanders also saw commanding leads in Utah and his home state of Vermont.

US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to the audience during the Bernie Sanders rally in the Lory Student Center Ballroom on Oct. 24, 2018. (The Collegian file photo)

The Associated Press called the Colorado primary in favor of Sanders mere minutes after the polls closed.

“I’m feeling good about (Bernie winning Colorado),” said Kaori Keyser, campus corps leader for Rams for Bernie. “Obviously this is just one of the first steps, but I think it means that people are going to have a chance to have more of a say in decisions that are made at a national level and for things more local.”

However, while Sanders did find victory in Colorado, he came up short in most of the other Super Tuesday races. Biden took early control of eight of the 14 states, winning by more than 10 points in all of the Southern states excluding Texas, including a 30 point lead in Virginia.

Final results showed Sanders winning California, Colorado, Utah and Vermont while Biden took all other Super Tuesday states.

Super Tuesday projected winners by state, according to The Guardian:

Alabama: Joe Biden

Arkansas: Joe Biden

California: Bernie Sanders

Colorado: Bernie Sanders

Maine: Joe Biden

Massachusetts: Joe Biden

Minnesota: Joe Biden

North Carolina: Joe Biden

Oklahoma: Joe Biden

Tennessee: Joe Biden

Texas: Joe Biden

Utah: Bernie Sanders

Vermont: Bernie Sanders

Virginia: Joe Biden

Biden, who won his first primary in South Carolina on Saturday, saw recent endorsements from other moderate candidates who dropped out earlier this week, including Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.

On the Republican stage, President Donald Trump saw a landslide victory in Colorado with over 90% of the vote.

President Donald Trump waves to the crowd at his Feb. 20, 2020 campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Matt Tackett | The Collegian)

Blake Alfred, a representative for Students for Trump, is confident that the president will be able to beat either leading Democrat.

“Trump will beat (Sanders or Biden) hands down based on his track record with the economy, lowest unemployment across every demographic, opportunity zones, fighting the opioid crisis, increasing funding to historically Black and African institutions, increasing paid family leave and pay for military families and a plethora of other accomplishments,” Alfred said.

The next set of primaries will be March 10, with races in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington. The candidates for both parties will be chosen at the Democratic Convention on July 13-16 and the Republican Convention on Aug. 24-27.

Austin Fleskes, Ravyn Cullor, Laura Studley and Serena Bettis can be reached at news@collegian.com or on Twitter @CSUCollegian.

About the Contributor

Serena Bettis, Editor in Chief

Serena Bettis is your 2022-23 editor in chief and is in her final year studying journalism and political science. In her three years at The Collegian, Bettis has also been a news reporter, copy editor, news editor and content managing editor, and she occasionally takes photos, too. When Bettis was 5, her family moved from Iowa to a tiny town northwest of Fort Collins called Livermore, Colorado, before eventually moving to Fort Collins proper. When she was 8 years old, her dad enrolled at Colorado State University as a nontraditional student veteran, where he found his life's passion in photojournalism. Although Bettis' own passion for journalism did not stem directly from her dad, his time at CSU and with The Collegian gave her the motivation to bite down on her fear of talking to strangers and find The Collegian newsroom on the second day of classes in 2019. She's never looked back since. Considering that aforementioned fear, Bettis is constantly surprised to be where she is today. However, thanks to the supportive learning environment at The Collegian and inspiring peers, Bettis has not stopped chasing her teenage dream of being a professional journalist. Between working with her section editors, coordinating news stories between Rocky Mountain Student Media departments and coaching new reporters, Bettis gets to live that dream every day. When she's not in the newsroom or almost falling asleep in class, you can find Bettis working in the Durrell Marketplace and Café or outside gazing at the beauty that is our campus (and running inside when bees are nearby). This year, Bettis' goals for The Collegian include continuing its trajectory as a unique alt-weekly newspaper, documenting the institutional memory of the paper to benefit students in years to come and fostering a sense of community and growth both inside the newsroom and through The Collegian's published work. Bettis would like to encourage anyone with story ideas, suggestions, questions, concerns or comments to reach out to her at editor@collegian.com.

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