Instead, the results signaled a remarkable comeback for Biden, who was projected to win at least nine, and possibly 10, of the nomination contests held across 14 states. They don’t call it Super Tuesday for nothing,” Biden told cheering fans in Los Angeles. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, won his home state of Vermont, and was projected to win Colorado and Utah. Well after midnight, the projection was made for Biden to win Texas, the second-largest state, and by the morning he had a narrow lead in Maine with three-quarters of the vote counted. That was bolstered by Biden winning all five other southern states on the ballot on Tuesday.
