Oklahoma Super Tuesday Democratic Primary: Biden Called As Winner

Oklahoma City OK

03 March, 2020

1:59 PM

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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Former Vice President Joe Biden has been called as the winner of Oklahoma's Super Tuesday Democratic presidential primary by the The Associated Press, The New York Times and other news outlets. With 87 percent of the vote counted at 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, Biden had 39 percent of the unofficial vote total, compared with 25 percent of voters who chose U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and 14 percent who supported former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on the ballot for the first time on Super Tuesday. At stake in Oklahoma are 37 pledged delegates. The primary was one of 14 across the country in which Super Tuesday voters were awarding 1,357 pledged delegates, or 34 percent of the total needed to win the Democratic presidential election. Biden and Bloomberg headed in to Super Tuesday in a battle for the votes of centrists, while Sanders also had strong poll numbers. Biden was leading in two of three polls ahead of the primary, according to Real Clear Politics. Those polls were all taken before moderates Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota dropped out and pledged their support to Biden as he attempts to build a firewall against Sanders. The Democratic poll from Data for Progress showed Biden with the support of 35 percent of likely primary voters, compared with 28 percent for Sanders and 19 percent for Bloomberg. The Sooner Poll put Biden and Bloomberg in a statistical tie at 21 percent and 20 percent support, respectively, among likely primary voters. The mid-February poll showed 13 percent support for Sanders, 10 percent support for Buttigieg, 9 percent support for Oklahoma native U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and 7 percent support for Klobuchar. Bloomberg and Sanders led Biden — 20 percent and 14 percent, respectively — in a CHS & Associates poll. Biden was the choice of 12 percent of likely voters, while 11 percent and 6 percent, respectively, said they were likely to vote for Buttigieg and Klobuchar. The Oklahoman reported a tally of in-person voting and mailed absentee ballots showing participation similar to that in 2016, when Sanders won the Oklahoma Democratic primary. » See more Super Tuesday coverage on Patch. Super Tuesday also is voting day for Alabama, American Samoa, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Democrats Abroad. » Full story and results as they come in on The Oklahoman.