WASHINGTON — Fresh off his Super Tuesday victories, Joe Biden picked up more momentum on Wednesday with the endorsement of Mike Bloomberg, who dropped out of the race, while Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders trained his fire on the former vice president in what quickly has narrowed into a two-person race.
As Biden and Sanders appeared headed for a protracted showdown for the Democratic presidential nomination, the future of the only other remaining top candidate was unclear. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren retreated to Cambridge, where an aide said she met with close advisers to assess her path forward after a poor performance in Tuesday’s 14 primaries, including a disheartening third-place finish in her home state.
“The Joementum is real,” Biden’s campaign said in an e-mail to supporters as he prepared to attend a fund-raiser in Los Angeles Wednesday night. “The American people have spoken. And Joe Biden is sprinting towards the Democratic nomination.”
But Sanders showed he was prepared to put up a fight after his disappointing Super Tuesday, noting he and Biden would likely be roughly tied in convention delegates once the results from California are fully tabulated and launching two new ads attacking his rival in upcoming primary states.
“I think we go forward basically neck-and-neck,” Sanders told reporters in Burlington, Vt.
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