What’s at stake on Super Tuesday?

The biggest day in the Democratic primary is here: Super Tuesday. There will be over 1,300 delegates up for grabs across 14 states. The remaining Democratic presidential candidates are hoping to grab at least one-third of these delegates, as it would give any one of them a lead that will be impossible to overcome before the party convention this summer in Milwaukee.

Currently, Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner with 60 delegates, while former Vice President Joe Biden is holding a not-so-distant second place of 54 delegates after gaining a major win in South Carolina on the weekend. Elizabeth Warren currently sits in third with eight delegates, while multi-billionaire Mike Bloomberg and Tulsi Gabbard are still running, despite having no delegates currently.

Major shakeups and shifts have occurred since the South Carolina primary, and most of the candidates who had been competing for the “moderate” or “centrist” vote are now coalescing around Biden in hopes of denying the left-wing Sanders the nomination. Billionaire candidate Tom Steyer dropped out of the race Saturday night, following his third-place finish. Pete Buttigieg ended his campaign Sunday night, with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar doing the same on Super Tuesday eve. Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg have since endorsed Biden for the party’s nomination. Popular Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who withdrew his own bid for the nomination very early in the race, also came out in support of Biden at a Dallas rally on Monday evening.

What is the terrain of Super Tuesday, and what factors are at play that will help determine who has the clearer path to the Democratic party nomination?...

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