super tuesday

Ahead of the first national primary to secure the candidacy of the Democratic Party, the field of contenders has thinned significantly with former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and former hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer—after spending a quarter of a billion dollars of his personal fortune—have dropped out of the race. Klobuchar and Buttigieg (whom polls consistently showed him roundly unseating Trump in a one-to-one race) have yielded the party’s central constituency and endorsed former vice president Joe Biden for the high office.