Amy Klobuchar is ending her Democratic presidential campaign and plans to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden. The Minnesota senator’s decision to leave the race came just 18 hours before Super Tuesday in 14 states, including Minnesota.
China opened a new hospital in response to the coronavirus, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted he wants a free-trade agreement with Europe and Iowa caucus-goers will gather at 7 p.m. to express preferences for Democratic presidential candidates. Director Emily Haugen has today’s News in :90.
This September, nearly 200,000 undergraduate students will be enrolled full-time at a Minnesota college or university. This November, 268 Minnesota residents will run for state legislature. One person will do both.
Four St. Thomas students volunteered at the precinct caucuses to become delegates for the Senate district 64 DFL convention on April 3.
TommieMedia will update the results of the Minnesota caucuses throughout the evening.
Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans flocked to the caucuses Tuesday night, giving Sen. Bernie Sanders more than 60 percent of the Minnesota vote in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party caucus.
Spokeswoman Katie Boyd says the party has counted 79,000 participants so far with only about 70 percent of results in. She says that is 15,000 more than in the record year of 2008. Democrats also reported very heavy turnout Tuesday but haven’t yet given numbers.
Marco Rubio captured his first win in the march to the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday while Bernie Sanders snagged a critical victory in the North Star State’s Democratic caucuses.
