Biden eyes White House after wins
JOE Biden vowed to “send Donald Trump packing” after staging a remarkable comeback in his presidential campaign.
Mr Biden, 77, won nine of the 14 states that voted to pick a Democratic White House candidate on Super Tuesday.
The former US vicepresident overturned predictions to narrowly take the key state of Texas from his main challenger, Bernie Sanders.
Only last month, Mr Biden’s campaign was all but written off after he finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses and fifth in the New Hampshire primary.
But, on Tuesday, Mr Biden won Texas – the second biggest state with 228 delegates – along with Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Rivals Mr Biden and Mr Sanders now lead the race to face Republican President Donald Trump in the election in November.
Mr Biden, who was vice-president to Barack Obama, said: “We are very much alive. Make no mistake about it, this campaign will send Donald Trump packing.”
Another of Biden’s rivals, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, dropped out of the presidential race yesterday. The former New
York mayor spent more than £380million of his own money on the campaign, but did not win a single state.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, once the frontrunner in the race, suffered a humiliating defeat to Mr Biden in her home state of Massachusetts.
Super Tuesday awards more than 1,300 of the 1,991 delegates needed to clinch the DemocraticWhite House nomination in July.