In one of the more surprising Super Tuesday results, former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to win Minnesota.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won Minnesota by 24 points over Hillary Clinton in 2016, when the state had a caucus, and was considered likely to win again. But with over 50 percent of the vote counted, Biden leads Sanders by just over seven percentage points, and outlets are calling it. The vice president made sure to thank Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for that.
Klobuchar, who dropped out of the Democratic primary Monday, is viewed as a moderate Democrat who was part of the primary's centrist logjam, along with Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. But Klobuchar and Buttigieg both stepped aside and endorsed Biden on Monday, giving his campaign a last-second boost going into Super Tuesday. It wasn't clear if Klobuchar would have won her home state, where she remains popular, but she almost certainly would have been competitive, and it looks like her endorsement mattered quite a bit to voters. Tim O'Donnell
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