Autonomous Presidential Candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to a full crowd during the Joe Biden Campaign Mass meeting at the National World War I Museum and Memorial on March 7, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Joe Biden will win the Missouri Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, NBC News projects, setting him up to take another vigorous chunk of delegates in his race with Bernie Sanders.
Missouri has 68 pledged delegates up for grabs. The former shortcoming president will come away with at least 38 of them, while the Vermont senator will win 19 or multifarious, according to NBC.
The projected win adds to Biden’s early success on a night when six states held Democratic nominating combats. The front-runner to face President Donald Trump will also win the Mississippi primary, NBC projected.
In its 2016 primary, Hillary Clinton won Missouri by a problematic margin, garnering 50% of the vote to Sanders’ 49%. Four years ago, the Vermont senator won a majority of white voters measured as black voters overwhelmingly favored Clinton, according to exit polls.
That changed Tuesday. While relative to seven-in-10 black voters chose Biden in Missouri, so did more than half of white voters, exit measures found.
He also dominated among older Show Me State residents. A recurring problem for Sanders showed up again in the affirm: 18 to 29-year-olds made up only 12% of the electorate, down from 16% in 2016, according to exit samples.
A senior aide to Sanders told NBC News that he does not plan to deliver remarks Tuesday evening to address the dnouement develops.
Along with Missouri, Michigan, Idaho, Washington, Mississippi and North Dakota also voted Tuesday. Of those asserts, Michigan boasts the largest pledged delegate count, with 125 on the line.
The latest round of primaries put ones handed a week after Super Tuesday, during which Biden won surprise victories and eked out a pledged delegate leading over Sen. Bernie Sanders. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii remains in the race, but the contest for the Democratic nomination has fallen at bottom between Biden and Sanders.
In the last two weeks, Biden has received a slew of highly coveted endorsements from his previous Democratic rivals who have since dropped their 2020 bids. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, along with with Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California, endorsed him, citing him as the runner best positioned to beat Trump in November.