Latinos are expected to compose the largest bloc of nonwhite eligible voters in 2020, and they have played a huge role in Sanders’ success so far in the Democratic primary.

After helping Sanders secure Nevada two weeks ago, Sanders won about half of Latinos in California, according to exit polls, securing a big win and a ton of delegates as other states tilted Biden’s way. In Texas, where Biden narrowly won, Latinos went for Sanders 39 percent to 26 percent for Biden. North Carolina was the only state where Biden ran ahead of Sanders among Latinos, according to the exit poll, though that result was within the margin of error.

Sanders’ Latino support will be especially important on March 17, when Arizona and Florida get their turn in the primary, as will Illinois. But Florida’s Latino vote looks much different than other states', and Sanders’ past comments about Cuba and Venezuela could play against him there in a way that didn’t factor in with the primarily Mexican populations in states like Nevada and California.

White college graduates shifted again after early indecision — and Biden captured nongrads, too

In Iowa, Pete Buttigieg finished first among white voters with college degrees, according to exit polls. In New Hampshire, Amy Klobuchar and Buttigieg basically tied among the group. Then Sanders and Buttigieg finished a close first and second for the fickle bloc in Nevada.

Throughout the 2020 campaign, this bloc of voters has jumped around, landing with Elizabeth Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and others at different times amid intense focus on electability and beating President Donald Trump in 2020. But Biden’s South Carolina win, followed by Klobuchar and Buttigieg dropping out to endorse him, seemed to clarify things for these voters on Super Tuesday.

While Sanders won college-educated white Democrats in his home state of Vermont and two states with significant early voting, California and Colorado, Biden swept nine other Super Tuesday states among that group of voters, according to the exit polls.

Meanwhile, Sanders won white Democrats without college degrees in each of the first three caucuses and primaries, with Buttigieg placing second each time. But once again, the dropouts appear to have driven consolidation around Biden, who won noncollege-educated white voters in eight Super Tuesday states, compared with four for Sanders — which again, concentrated in states with significant early voting, where a lot of ballots were cast before the recent major shift in the 2020 race.

Early Wednesday morning, Sanders began running ads hitting Biden on both Social Security and trade in Michigan, which votes next week. The state gave Sanders a key boost over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the ads look like a play to wrest back momentum among working-class white voters. In 2016, Sanders won white voters without a college degree in Michigan.

Young voters still powered Bernie