LOS ANGELES, California — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was routed in her home state of Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, losing to both former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a stunning defeat.
Biden drew cheers from a crowd of several hundred supporters during a victory rally as he noted that he was doing better than expected in Massachusetts. Shortly after he came offstage, the Associated Press made the official call.
With 62% of precincts reporting as of 11:12 p.m. ET, Biden was crushing his opposition in the Bay State, winning 33.7% to 26.9% for Sanders. Warren was a distant third at 21.5%, losing to Biden by a 3-to-2 margin thus far.
It was a strong night overall for Biden, who also won in Minnesota and across the South. The only consolation for Warren is that she will likely win at least some delegates in her home state, since she appeared to have passed the 15% threshold necessary to share in the proportional representation of pledged delegates from the state.
Warren appeared to have done poorly across the nation, and with Massachusetts going to Biden, seemed to have won no states at all. It was a stunning collapse for a candidate who had been considered a potential frontrunner in the fall, drawing crowds at town hall meetings, on college campuses, and in New York City’s Washington Square.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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