Biden wins Maine primary, giving him 10 Super Tuesday victories

Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary in Maine, the last state to be called in the Super Tuesday contests.

Biden swept Super Tuesday, winning primaries in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia and Maine, giving him 10 victories to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ four.

Sanders, I-Vt., won his home state of Vermont, as well as Colorado and Utah. The self-described Democratic socialist also was able to claim victory in Super Tuesday’s largest prize, the delegate-rich state of California.

Biden, ahead of the early primary contests, was the unrivaled front-runner, but once the nominating calendar kicked off with Iowa and New Hampshire, Biden fell behind, with lackluster fourth- and fifth-place showings. A slight rebound in Nevada’s caucuses last month, where he came in a distant second to Sanders, gave him some much-needed momentum going into the South Carolina primary — a state the campaign long called their “firewall.”