"This is the big night when Democrats in 14 states across America will decide whether the Democratic nominee should be an old man or an even older man," Trevor Noah said on a live Super Tuesday Daily Show. "Whichever nominee comes out on top tonight gets a big boost in the race for the Democratic nomination — and, you also get all the losing candidates' lunch money."
By the time The Daily Show went on the air, "Vermont was easily won by the original founder of the state, Bernie Sanders," who also picked up Colorado, Noah said. "But it's looking like tonight is all about Joe Biden, because black voters just put him over the top all across the South." How did we get here? "Remember, a few weeks ago, people were saying that Bernie was going to clean up," he said. "But then after Biden dominated South Carolina, he was neck-and-neck with Bernie. And what's propelled him even further was getting help from a few new friends."
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Biden and Sanders offer differnt paths for the Democrats, but "because we're talking about Trump, the menace, the threat of him getting eight years versus four is so profound, that I think we'll come together," former Obama White House senior adviser David Plouffe told Noah. "But he's going to be really tough to beat. There's nothing he won't do, there's no low he won't sink to, to win re-election." Plouffe said Biden is the frontrunner after Super Tuesday, though the race is certainly not over, and it will be up to the people, not the party, to push the eventual Democratic nominee to victory.
Late Night's Seth Meyers marked Super Tuesday by conducting his own debate with the remaining Democrats, and you can watch that below. Peter Weber
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