WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential primary campaign (all times local):
12:55 p.m.
Joe Biden’s top campaign officials are arguing that nothing was settled in the overwhelmingly white states of Iowa and New Hampshire because the Democratic Party’s non-white base has yet to vote.
They insisted Wednesday that diverse electorates in Nevada and South Carolina can resurrect the former vice president’s campaign after fourth- and fifth-place finishes.
Senior Biden campaign adviser Symone Sanders says Democrats won’t declare a winner of this nomination “without hearing from black voters and Latino voters.”
Biden is not campaigning publicly Wednesday. He’ll be in New York for media interviews and fundraisers Thursday before a three-day swing in Nevada, whose caucuses are Feb. 22. South Carolina’s primary follows on Feb. 29.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s presidential primary Tuesday, edging former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
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8:40 a.m.
Georgia congresswoman Lucy McBath has endorsed former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg for president.
McBath cites Bloomberg’s “unmatched record in gun violence prevention.”
McBath’s 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot to death in 2012 following an argument at a gas station in Florida over loud music. The shooting drew a spotlight on “stand-your-ground” laws. The shooter was a 45-year-old man named Michael Dunn, who claimed he’d done it in self-defense but was convicted of attempted murder.
McBath says in a statement issued Wednesday she met Bloomberg when she was looking for ways to fight against “dangerous gun laws that ripped” her son from her life.
McBath ran for Congress following her son’s death and was elected in 2018. She became the first Democrat elected to her seat since 1979.
Bloomberg has been aggressively courting black voters. His effort has taken him across Southern states that vote on Super Tuesday.
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