Results are coming in from Super Tuesday when more delegates are awarded than any other day in the U.S. presidential nomination process.
And former Vice-President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont are now the two clear front-runners for the Democratic party.
Analysts say they can have a long battle for delegates in the months ahead. Republicans will not. Incumbent President Donald Trump won all of the states that held primaries on Tuesday so it"s a forgone conclusion that he"ll defeat his Republican challenger former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld.
But we"re focusing on the Democrats today because their race is less certain. When we produced this show, former Vice-President Biden had won in 10 of the 14 states holding Democratic primaries on Super Tuesday. Senator Sanders won in at least three states. And in the one caucus held on Tuesday in the territory of American Samoa, the victory went to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Despite that though, he dropped out of the race on Wednesday leaving four Democrats still in it. Bloomberg said the delegate math just didn"t add up for him to get his party"s nomination.
The math we had last night was incomplete. Biden was leading with 435 delegates to Sanders 381. But California is the biggest prize from Super Tuesday with the most delegates and Sanders was leading there though final results may not be known for weeks. So it"s possible he could catch or even pass Biden in the Super Tuesday delegate count. The process of counting delegates is a complicated one.
“超级星期二”的结果即将揭晓，在美国总统提名过程中，这一天可获得的代表票数超过其他任何一天。
显然，美国前副总统乔·拜登和美国佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯现是民主党的两位领先者。
分析人士表示，二人可能会在未来几个月展开漫长的代表票数之争。共和党则不会。现任总统唐纳德·特朗普在周二举行初选的所有州都获得了胜利，因此，他将击败他的共和党挑战者、前马萨诸塞州州长比尔·维尔德是意料之中的事。
而我们今天要将注意力集中在民主党身上，因为其竞选局势难以确定。在我们制作本期节目时，前副总统拜登在“超级星期二”举行初选的14个州中拿下了10个州。参议员桑德斯至少赢下了3个州。而在周二举行的美属萨摩亚党团会议上，获胜的是前纽约市市长迈克尔·布隆伯格。尽管如此，他还是在周三宣布退选，这使民主党的参选数缩减为四人。布隆伯格表示，党代表票数的计算结果不足以让他获得党内提名。
我们昨晚进行的计算并不完整。拜登获得了435张代表票，领先于桑德斯的381票。但在“超级星期二”中，加州拥有的党代表票数最多，而桑德斯在该州领先，不过最终结果可能在几周后才能确定。因此，桑德斯可能在“超级星期二”的党代表票数统计中赶上甚至超过拜登。党代表票数的统计过程相当复杂。
