Democratic presidential race narrows down to keen two-way fight between Biden and Sanders

The race to win the Democratic Party's nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in the November election has virtually narrowed down to a two-way contest between ex-vice president Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders as the two septuagenarians secured major victories in the "Super Tuesday" primaries held in 14 states across the US.

In a remarkable rebound for his limping campaign, 77-year-old Biden won nine of the 14 states that voted to pick a Democratic candidate on "Super Tuesday", the most important day in the race for the White House.

The former US vice-president overturned predictions to narrowly take the key state of Texas from his main challenger, Sanders, 78. He also won the primaries in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts. He was still locked in a tight race in Maine that could make it 10.

However, leftist Sanders won big in California - the biggest prize of the night - as well as in Colorado and Utah. He also won from his home state of Vermont.

The two now lead the race to face President Trump, a Republican, in the November 3 presidential election.

"We are very much alive," Biden told a crowd in Los Angeles. "Make no mistake about it, this campaign will send Donald Trump packing."
Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager, described the electoral success as "one of the greatest political comebacks in modern American history."
Brad Parscale, Trump 2020 campaign manager said that the Democratic presidential results only increased the likelihood that no candidate will have enough delegates for a first ballot victory at their convention, which only means more chaos!