UPDATE - Biden takes early Super Tuesday lead with wins in South

UPDATE - Biden takes early Super Tuesday lead with wins in South

Former vice president projected to win slew of southern states, Minnesota, as progressive Sen Bernie Sanders claims 3 wins

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By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON (AA) - Former Vice President Joe Biden is riding early momentum on Super Tuesday with a slew of wins in southern states as Sen. Bernie Sanders looks further west for major victories.

Biden is making a strong showing in the American South, where all three major cable news networks have projected his victories in Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma -- states in which he holds strong support among black voters.

He is also projected to win the midwestern state of Minnesota, one day after Amy Klobuchar, the state's senator, abruptly ended her campaign and called on supporters to back him.

"It’s still early, but things are looking awful, awful good. For those that have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign,” Biden told supporters in Los Angeles.

Sanders, meanwhile, easily took his home state of Vermont as well as Colorado and Utah as he seeks to make major inroads further west.

Addressing supporters in Vermont, Sanders maintained his campaign is uniquely positioned to defeat President Donald Trump come November.

“It is our movement that is best positioned to defeat Trump. You cannot beat Trump with the same old, same old kind of politics," Sanders said. "What we need is a new kind of politics that brings working class people into our political movement, which brings young people into our political movement, and which in November will create the highest voter turnout in American political history.”

Roughly one-third of all delegates nationwide are up for grabs in 14 states spanning the breadth of the continental U.S. and American Samoa. Democrats outside of the U.S. will also be able to begin casting their ballots in a separate contest that will run through the following Tuesday.

Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg is projected to win American Samoa.

The race has been too close to call in Maine and Massachusetts, but much of the vote remains outstanding. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is looking at her home state of Massachusetts as a must-win as her campaign struggles to gain traction.

Voting is still underway in the night's two biggest prizes, Texas and California, which boast the most delegates at stake Tuesday evening and combine for about half of all delegates in play on Tuesday.

Sanders has an early lead in Texas, but the race is still anyone's for the taking. As for California, results for the night's most important state are not expected until Wednesday at the earliest.

The state of 40 million accepts mail-in ballots, as long as they are postmarked by Tuesday.

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