Former Vice President Joe Biden has won Alabama’s 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
National media outlets called the Super Tuesday primary race for Biden right after polls closed at 7:00 p.m. CST based off of exit polling that showed Biden winning in a blowout, especially with black voters in the Yellowhammer State.
The real question will be how many delegates Biden will win. There are 52 pledged delegates up for grabs in total; they will be split proportionally.
Biden was endorsed in the race by the likes of U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin.
Jones was unopposed in his primary on Tuesday and will face an eventual Republican nominee in November. Sewell was also unopposed in her primary but does not have a GOP general election opponent to face.
With 97.80% of precincts reporting, Biden had garnered 63.37% of the vote, compared to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at 16.81% and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 11.85%.
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This post will be updated as it becomes clear how the delegates will be split.
Sean Ross is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn
