Joe Biden Accepts Endorsements at Dallas Rally the Night Before Super Tuesday Image Supporters of Joseph R. Biden cheered as he accepted endorsements from Senator Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke at a rally in Dallas on Monday. Earlier, Pete Buttigieg had endorsed him, as well. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times With one day to go before 14 states vote on Super Tuesday, onetime rivals are throwing their support to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.: Both Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., endorsed him at campaign events in Dallas on Monday night. Joining them was former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, who dropped out of the presidential race last fall.

Whether Mr. Biden’s momentum will be enough to put up a strong challenge to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Tuesday remains to be seen. While Mr. Biden’s strength with black voters could help him in Southern states, Mr. Sanders is strong in California, the biggest prize on the Super Tuesday map, as well as Texas and New England.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts polls strongly in some states with large delegate counts and is among the candidates who may benefit from Mr. Buttigieg’s and Ms. Klobuchar’s exits.

Waiting for them all is former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who has plowed more than $500 million into advertising. He has not competed in the four early contests but will be on the ballot on Super Tuesday.

March 3, 2020, 12:38 a.m. ET March 3, 2020, 12:38 a.m. ET By Warren warns that nominating a Washington insider ‘will not meet this moment.’ Image Elizabeth Warren at a rally at East Los Angeles College on Monday night. Credit... Christopher Lee for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Facing tough Super Tuesday prospects and skepticism that she has a path to the Democratic nomination, an energetic Elizabeth Warren took a swipe at Joe Biden on Monday night, after much of the Democratic establishment lined up behind him. “No matter how many Washington insiders tell you to support him, nominating a fellow Washington insider will not meet this moment,” she told a crowd of thousands at East Los Angeles Community College. “Nominating a man who says we do not need any fundamental change in this country will not meet this moment.” In front of a supportive crowd hours before 14 states were to begin voting, Ms. Warren tried to make the case that she was the best candidate for the party. “Nominating someone who wants to restore the world before Donald Trump, when the status quo has been leaving more and more people behind for decades, is a big risk for our party and our country,” she said. Ms. Warren went on to give an extensive speech about the janitor strikes of the 1990s in Los Angeles, calling Latinas the “unsung heroes of the American story.” “Latinas had led the fight and Latinas had won,” Ms. Warren said of the janitor strikes, which drastically increased the power of both unions and Latinos in Los Angeles. She drew parallels between the strikes and her campaign, adding: “It is not enough to have big ideas. It takes a plan to turn those ideas into reality.” In providing a closing case before what is likely to be the most decisive day of the primary, she ended with what sounded like both an argument and a plea. “We have this opportunity in 2020, this opportunity to come together to make real change,” she said. “This is our time. This is the moment we have been called to, the moment for us to make history.” Read more

March 2, 2020, 11:39 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 11:39 p.m. ET By Biden and Beto walk into a Whataburger. DALLAS — As he endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday night at a campaign rally, former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas mentioned that he would be taking the Bidens to Whataburger, a fast-food joint. When it came to Mr. Biden, at least, Mr. O’Rourke wasn’t kidding. He, his wife, Amy, and Mr. Biden — Mr. Biden’s wife, Jill, was not spotted — walked into the burger joint soon after the rally. Mr. Biden spooned up what appeared to be a vanilla milkshake while he and the O’Rourkes also ate burgers. A few orders of fries were on the table as well. Here’s the scene: Beto was not kidding about taking Biden to Whataburger pic.twitter.com/xcTlEqOJpu — Katie Glueck (@katieglueck) March 3, 2020 Read more

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March 2, 2020, 11:27 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 11:27 p.m. ET By Bloomberg says he called Buttigieg after the former mayor dropped out. Michael R. Bloomberg said that he had called Pete Buttigieg on Sunday after the former mayor exited the race. “I said, ‘I’m sorry it ended that way for you, and you’re a gentleman, and I listened to your speeches, and I thought a lot of what you said made sense,’” Mr. Bloomberg said in an interview broadcast on CNN Monday night. He noted that Mr. Buttigieg had participated in a training program that the Bloomberg foundation ran for mayors in America. “He was in the first class, so I have to say nice things about him,” Mr. Bloomberg said of Mr. Buttigieg, who last week said that Mr. Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policing policy in New York City was racist. In the interview, broadcast in the final hours before the Super Tuesday contests that will be vital to Mr. Bloomberg’s bid, the multibillionaire restated his skepticism of Mr. Biden’s candidacy exactly as former opponents endorsed the former vice president. “He certainly has some momentum going — there’s no question about that,” Mr. Bloomberg conceded. “But I think he’s won one state primary in three elections.” Asked what he himself needed to achieve in Tuesday’s contests to stay in the race, Mr. Bloomberg said he had to receive “a decent number of delegates coming out of it,” declining to define what constituted a decent figure. He added, “You’re not going to be anywhere near Sanders, and probably not Biden.” In seeking to capture the nomination of a party he rejoined only two years ago, Mr. Bloomberg again defended his past identity as a Republican politician. He called his choice to register as a Republican a pragmatic one that had simply allowed him to get on the mayoral ballot in New York City. “You go right down the list of the things that I have done for the Democratic Party,” he said, rattling off some of the causes and candidates he had funded over the years. “I think that makes me more of a Democrat than any of the others who talk about doing things but don’t do anything.” Invoking his age, 78, he called authenticity a strength of his in the race. “I’m not going to try to be somebody that I’m not,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to vote for a phony. Nobody’s going to think I’m a phony.” Read more

March 2, 2020, 10:57 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 10:57 p.m. ET By Warren pushes her progressive case as the moderates close ranks. Just after Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke had appeared with Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Dallas — further consolidating Democratic support around Mr. Biden — Elizabeth Warren sought to sell herself as the best progressive alternative in the race. “They see the world in many ways the same way the vice president does,” she said in an interview with CNN of the moderates who’d endorsed Mr. Biden. “The field has now narrowed sharply, and this is going to be a race that really puts it to people about what kind of a leader we want for the Democratic Party, but also what kind of a leader we want for our country.” Anticipating the coast-to-coast contests on Tuesday, Ms. Warren called her field operations strong, invoking offices in each of the 14 Super Tuesday states. “I’ve been to 30 states and Puerto Rico,” she said of her time on the campaign trail. In her home state, Massachusetts, polls put Ms. Warren in an especially tight race with Mr. Sanders, who has twice as many field offices as her campaign does there. “Bernie thinks that we should raise taxes on middle-class families to pay for health care,” she said in Monday’s interview. “We don’t have to do that.” She went on to advocate raising corporate taxes on companies like Amazon to fund health care. Calling the Democratic Party a progressive one, Ms. Warren urged voters to seize the chance for change. “We have such opportunities in 2020,” she said. “I just want to see us take advantage of them.” Read more

March 2, 2020, 10:22 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 10:22 p.m. ET By Beto O’Rourke endorses Biden. Image “Joe Biden is decent,” Beto O’Rourke said at a rally in Dallas. “He’s kind. He’s caring. He’s empathetic.” Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times DALLAS — On the eve of Super Tuesday, former Representative Beto O’Rourke of El Paso appeared at a lively rally for Joseph R. Biden Jr. here and formally endorsed his onetime 2020 presidential rival. “Tomorrow, March 3, 2020, I will be casting my ballot for Joe Biden,” Mr. O’Rourke said after taking the stage to uproarious applause. “We need somebody who can beat Donald Trump.” Mr. O’Rourke, who made an unexpectedly competitive run for Senate in 2018 but struggled as a presidential candidate, called Mr. Biden “the antithesis of Donald Trump” as he announced his decision, the night before Texas and a trove of other delegate-rich states vote. “Joe Biden is decent,” he said. “He’s kind. He’s caring. He’s empathetic.” Mr. Biden, he said, would fight for democracy “here and abroad” and re-establish America’s moral authority.” “We need Joe Biden,” he said. Mr. O’Rourke is the latest prominent Democrat in recent days to endorse Mr. Biden, who has attracted a slew of new supporters after his resounding victory in South Carolina, including Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg on Monday alone. Yet he still faces steep challenges in this state and in many of the others that vote on Tuesday — Michael R. Bloomberg has outspent and out-organized him in many of these states, party officials have said, siphoning some of the moderate vote, while Bernie Sanders of Vermont has an enthusiastic, devoted progressive base. Mr. O’Rourke also took the occasion to tell Mr. Biden about what Texans needed from their president: Someone who would fight to combat climate change, for example, and work to end gun violence — an especially important cause for Mr. O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, the site of a deadly mass shooting last summer. “You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me,” Mr. Biden said. “You’re going to be the one leading this effort.” Mr. O’Rourke, who spoke a few lines in Spanish, was received at least as enthusiastically as Mr. Biden was. “We love you, Beto!” someone cried out. He said he loved them back, and said — it was unclear whether he was joking — that he would take Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, to Whataburger, a greasy fast-food burger chain. “I’m going to guarantee, this is not the last you see of this guy,” Mr. Biden said. Read more

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March 2, 2020, 10:01 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 10:01 p.m. ET By Biden accepts a big endorsement: ‘You’re going to hear a lot from Amy Klobuchar.’ Joseph R. Biden Jr., who for months had struggled with paltry fund-raising, small crowds and a string of losses in the first three early-voting states, stepped out onto a stage here in Texas on Monday to a roaring audience, boosted by several former presidential rivals who had endorsed him over the course of a frenetic few hours. “Amy, thank you, thank you, thank you,” Mr. Biden said as he accepted an endorsement from Amy Klobuchar, who ended her campaign on Monday. “Amy knows how to get things done. She really does.” “You’re going to hear a lot from Amy Klobuchar,” he promised. Mr. Biden, who romped to victory in South Carolina on Saturday, is now competing aggressively here in Texas and across the other delegate-rich states that vote on Tuesday, and has racked up a long list of endorsements since his win, including from Ms. Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg on Monday alone. His path to victory in many of these states remains highly volatile and challenging — he has been vastly outspent by two of his chief rivals, Bernie Sanders and Michael R. Bloomberg. But his appearance here Monday night marked a remarkable turnaround from even a week ago, when after a fourth-place finish in Iowa, fifth-place showing in New Hampshire and distant second-place result in Nevada, his path forward looked uncertain. He spoke against the backdrop of a giant Texas flag after receiving endorsements from Ms. Klobuchar and, earlier in the day, Mr. Buttigieg, who had appeared with him at a nearby restaurant. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas was also expected to endorse Mr. Biden. “Thank you for your endorsement,” Mr. Biden said, adding that he was honored to receive it. “Folks, I wasn’t joking: Amy won all the debates.” Read more

March 2, 2020, 9:50 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 9:50 p.m. ET By Klobuchar announces her endorsement of Biden at his rally. Image Amy Klobuchar with Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a rally for the former vice president in Dallas. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times DALLAS — Amy Klobuchar made her endorsement of Joseph R. Biden Jr. official. “Today I am ending my campaign and endorsing Joe Biden for president,” she said at a rally for the former vice president in Dallas, taking the stage with him and his wife, Jill Biden, as well as Ms. Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, and her daughter Abigail. “He can bring our country together and build that coalition of our fired-up Democratic base as well as independents and moderate Republicans. We do not in our party want to just eke by a victory. We want to win big.” It was also the first time that Ms. Klobuchar herself had stated that she was ending her presidential bid. The senator had refrained from making any public statements since her decision to drop out of the race this morning. The reason, her advisers said, was to make the decision all about supporting Mr. Biden and unifying the party. “If you feel tired of the noise and the nonsense in our politics and if you are tired of the extremes, you have a home with me, and I think you know you have a home with Joe Biden,” she said. Ms. Klobuchar, who had come in sixth place in both South Carolina and Nevada, could provide a boost to Mr. Biden in her home state of Minnesota, a 75-delegate Super Tuesday haul where Bernie Sanders is hoping to make a strong stand. Though early voting has been underway for weeks in the state, support from Ms. Klobuchar for Mr. Biden could help him halt any runaway by Mr. Sanders in the state. Read more

March 2, 2020, 9:38 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 9:38 p.m. ET By Biden hits out at Bloomberg over foreign policy, stop-and-frisk and his Democratic loyalty. On the eve of Super Tuesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. sharpened his criticism of one of the last remaining moderates in the Democratic primary race: Michael R. Bloomberg. During an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN, Mr. Biden said that Mr. Bloomberg lacked the foreign policy credentials and had not shown a longstanding commitment to the Democratic Party. Mr. Biden was responding to remarks made by Mr. Bloomberg to CNN in which the billionaire businessman said that Mr. Biden did not have the managerial experience to be president and had been a legislator. “I like Mike, but he knows zero about foreign policy,” Mr. Biden said. “Zero about foreign policy.” Mr. Biden, who served in the Senate for more than three decades, said one of his signature accomplishments as vice president was shepherding through the more than $800 billion economic stimulus package during the first term of President Barack Obama in 2009. Fresh off his victory in the South Carolina primary and the news that Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar would endorse him, Mr. Biden sought to portray Mr. Bloomberg’s late entry into the Democratic presidential field as opportunistic. “He’s not a Democrat,” Mr. Biden said. “Well, he hasn’t been a Democrat.” Mr. Biden also brought up stop-and-frisk policing in New York when Mr. Bloomberg was mayor, a policy that disproportionately affected people of color. Mr. Bloomberg has since apologized for his support of the policy. “I was one of the people, who along with the president, moved to see to it that the Justice Department said, ‘Cease and desist from throwing five million people up against a wall,’” Mr. Biden said. Read more

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March 2, 2020, 9:24 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 9:24 p.m. ET By Biden accepts Buttigieg’s endorsement as they appear together. Image Pete Buttigieg endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a restaurant in Dallas on Monday night. Credit... Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News, via Associated Press DALLAS — In a joint appearance that verged on emotional at times, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday accepted an endorsement from Pete Buttigieg, one of his most prominent 2020 rivals, and likened him repeatedly to his late son, Beau. Mr. Buttigieg dropped out of the race on Sunday, helping to clear what had been a crowded lane of moderate candidates. Standing beside Mr. Biden in the gravelly outdoor space of a hip restaurant here, he made his endorsement official, describing Mr. Biden as the kind of candidate who could aid Democrats up and down the ballot and unite a broad cross-section of Americans. “I want you to know how unbelievably and unfailingly decent I have known Vice President Biden to be,” Mr. Buttigieg said, calling him capable of restoring “dignity” to the White House and describing him as a person of “such extraordinary grace and kindness and empathy.” “I’m encouraging everybody who was part of my campaign to join me because we have found that leader in Vice President, soon to be President, Joe Biden,” he said. Mr. Biden, acknowledging that the moment might be “bittersweet” for the former mayor’s supporters, called Mr. Buttigieg “a man who is not only brilliant, but is decent,” talking repeatedly about the promising future that he said Mr. Buttigieg has. In what Mr. Biden suggested was perhaps the highest compliment he could give, he talked about how Mr. Buttigieg, a military veteran, reminded him of his son, Beau Biden, also a veteran and rising young politician who died of brain cancer. “I’d look over at Pete during debates and I’d think, you know, that’s a Beau. Because he has such enormous character, such intellectual capacity,” Mr. Biden said. The two men hugged before making the rounds through the restaurant and bar to greet patrons and supporters. Read more

March 2, 2020, 8:41 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 8:41 p.m. ET By A mix of Biden and Buttigieg supporters hope for unity in Dallas. DALLAS — There are a few more Buttigieg signs than normal at the Biden rally here tonight. After Pete Buttigieg endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr., his supporters came to see the candidate the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., threw his support behind. Aris Musa, 36, used to volunteer for Mr. Buttigieg in Dallas, and was at the field office here volunteering last night when word came that Mr. Buttigieg was dropping out. While she said she was “disappointed” that Mr. Buttigieg didn’t make it, she was ready to support Mr. Biden, bringing her “Pete 2020” sign to the rally and writing in “And JOE” in sharpie marker along the bottom. “I hope Bloomberg will as well, because if we’re going to unify our country, I think we need a candidate who is less divisive than Sanders,” she said. The theme of “unity” was on a lot of the supporters’ minds as they filed into the rally, a marching band providing an uplifting soundtrack. Kendrick Moore, 30, of Dallas, was always a supporter of Mr. Biden, and arrived on Monday early to get prime placement. It was a good day, he said. “It just really inspires me to see the party coming together like this,” he said. Maurice Howard II, 54, had long been a supporter of the former vice president, and said that the dual endorsements by Mr. Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar were long overdue. “The thing I’m saying is, why didn’t it happen sooner?” Mr. Howard said. He said he was hoping to see Michael R. Bloomberg and “the other billionaire that was in the race, Tom Steyer,” both eventually throw their support behind Mr. Biden in the near future. “I think his votes are going to go our way as well,” he said. Read more

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March 2, 2020, 7:58 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 7:58 p.m. ET By Buttigieg formally endorses Joe Biden. Pete Buttigieg formally endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Dallas, adopting some of Mr. Biden’s favorite phrases in describing him as the best candidate to “bring back dignity to the White House” and “restore the soul” of the nation. Democrats need to win back the White House in November “in a way that starts to change the toxic and divisive nature of our politics right now,” Mr. Buttigieg said at a news conference before a rally for Mr. Biden. “We can’t go on like this.” As he did in his own campaign, Mr. Buttigieg emphasized the influence the party’s presidential nominee may have on down-ballot races for the House and Senate, and said he believed Mr. Biden was the candidate who could bring congressional majorities to Washington along with him. Implicit in his remarks was the argument that Bernie Sanders could not. “What we see right now is an opportunity not just to meet the imperative of getting a new and better president, but of doing it with a leader who will practice that way of rallying people together,” he said, before concluding, “I’m encouraging everybody who was part of my campaign to join me, because we have found that leader in Vice President — soon to be President — Joe Biden.” Mr. Biden offered Mr. Buttigieg the highest compliment in his personal vocabulary, several times likening the young politician to his own son, Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015. Read more

March 2, 2020, 7:32 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 7:32 p.m. ET By Beto O’Rourke plans to endorse Biden tonight. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, who became a progressive star in his spirited race against Senator Ted Cruz before mounting a less-successful presidential campaign, will endorse Joseph R. Biden Jr. and appear with him in Dallas Monday night, according to two Democratic officials familiar with his plans. Mr. O’Rourke, who dropped out of the primary last fall, has returned to his native El Paso and largely stayed out of the campaign. But one night before the Texas primary, he will line up with his fellow former candidates, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, in their effort to coalesce behind Mr. Biden and slow the momentum of Bernie Sanders.

March 2, 2020, 7:19 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 7:19 p.m. ET By As the field shrinks, Bloomberg points out he still hasn’t faced voters. Image Michael R. Bloomberg at a Fox News town hall event at a George Mason University campus in Northern Virginia. Credit... Chang W. Lee/The New York Times At a Fox News town hall event on Monday, Michael R. Bloomberg defended his choice to stay in the race even as other moderate candidates had withdrawn in the wake of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s decisive victory in South Carolina and endorsed him. He said he felt that while Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg — both of whom withdrew this week — had tested their appeal through early primary contests, he had not. “I haven’t even faced the voters once at a national level, so tomorrow will be the first day,” Mr. Bloomberg said, referring to the Super Tuesday contests on which he has placed an expensive bet. Mr. Bloomberg stressed again that his goal in the race was not just to stop President Trump from winning re-election but also to stop Bernie Sanders, the progressive front-runner in the Democratic race, from ousting him. “I don’t think that Bernie Sanders has the right ideas for the country,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “I don’t think that he can beat Donald Trump because I don’t think the country wants revolutionary change. I think the country wants evolutionary change, and Sanders is a very revolutionary kind of guy.” Mr. Bloomberg was asked how he would convince delegates to choose him over Mr. Sanders at a contested convention. Mr. Bloomberg said he would argue that Mr. Sanders “cannot get elected in this country,” adding, “His ideas are crazy.” Over the course of his remarks, Mr. Bloomberg made clear the pronounced differences between himself and Mr. Sanders — who routinely denounces billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg. “Young people don’t buy clothing with monograms anywhere as near as much as they used to,” he said as part of a wide-ranging response to a question on Amazon’s influence on the American economy and whether the government ought to increase taxes on such companies. “The place you get the money is from taxing people like me,” he said, adding: “I’m not opposed to taxing Amazon. Amazon should pay their taxes like everybody else.” Again appearing more at ease in the town hall format than he did at last month’s primary debates, Mr. Bloomberg addressed issues including his support for the controversial stop-and-frisk policing policy in New York City; China’s trade practices; and the coronavirus outbreak’s impact on the economy. “A lot of this stuff — it’s not the economics, it’s the people that are afraid to go out,” he said of the public health concerns, urging the audience in Manassas, Va., to go to Chinese restaurants. “I thought to myself, ‘Tonight, I’m going to go to a Chinese restaurant,’ and it turns out I can’t,” he said, adding that he planned to patronize one for dinner on Super Tuesday. Read more

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March 2, 2020, 6:16 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 6:16 p.m. ET By Biden rallies in Texas, a big Super Tuesday prize. Image Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. greeted attendees at a campaign event on Monday at Texas Southern University in Houston. Credit... Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times HOUSTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. spent the hours before Super Tuesday campaigning across Texas, the second-biggest delegate prize of the March 3 contests, holding rallies on the ground as moderate party leaders across the country — including two former rivals — moved to close ranks around him. His first public event of the day came Monday afternoon at Texas Southern University, a historically black school, where attendees crowded into a relatively small atrium and others looked on from several floors up. The event unfolded as news broke that both Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg would be endorsing Mr. Biden and would appear with him at his Monday night rally in Dallas. “Texas is going to speak!” Mr. Biden said in Houston to roars of approval and chants of “We want Joe!” — a stark contrast to the chilly receptions he received in Iowa and New Hampshire. He spoke at other points of the appetite for unity, and of the possibility that “we will win in Texas tomorrow,” though he faces steep competition from several rivals. As he did on Sunday, Mr. Biden delivered a version of the speech he gave at his victory party on Saturday night in South Carolina. He argued that the American people were more interested in “results” than in “revolution” — a jab at Senator Bernie Sanders — and emphasized his credentials as a Democrat. Calling himself an “Obama-Biden Democrat,” he drew an implicit contrast with Mr. Sanders, a democratic socialist, as well as former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has been an independent, a Republican and a Democrat. Both men pose significant challenges to Mr. Biden in Texas and in other states that vote on Tuesday. “I take nothing for granted, nothing at all, but I’m asking you, I’m asking you for your vote, I’m asking you for your support,” Mr. Biden said. (“You got it!” someone yelled back.) For anyone who has been “knocked down,” Mr. Biden said, “this is your campaign.” “We need you, we want you and there’s a place for you in our campaign. So join us.” If the tone was heartfelt, the message was not always delivered with precision. At one point Mr. Biden appeared to begin to say “Super Thursday,” when the contests are known collectively as Super Tuesday. Read more

March 2, 2020, 5:38 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 5:38 p.m. ET By U.S. officials warn of foreign influence efforts on Super Tuesday. WASHINGTON — Top American national security officials warned on Monday about foreign efforts to influence public sentiment ahead of voting on Super Tuesday, the busiest day of the primary season. “Foreign actors continue to try to influence public sentiment and shape voter perceptions,” the officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said in an unusual joint statement. “They spread false information and propaganda about political processes and candidates on social media in hopes to cause confusion and create doubt in our system.” The officials sought to build confidence in the voting system amid reports about foreign influence operations. Super Tuesday was a potential target of such interference, officials have said in recent days. The F.B.I. briefed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination, in recent weeks about Russian efforts to try to boost his candidacy. Intelligence and other national security officials have expressed worries that public reports of Russian influence efforts have the perverse effect of undermining confidence in the election, one of the goals of Moscow’s meddling. But Monday’s statement made clear that the Trump administration had concluded that warnings about foreign influence were in the public interest. Intelligence officials have repeatedly said that ballot boxes themselves are relatively safe from tampering. In their statement, officials identified no foreign governments, but intelligence officials have said that in addition to Russia, other American adversaries including China, Iran and North Korea have all at times conducted influence operations aimed at American elections. The statement was signed by a long list of senior officials including Mr. Pompeo; Attorney General William P. Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray; Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the head of the National Security Agency and the United States Cyber Command; and Christopher C. Krebs, the top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security. Read more

March 2, 2020, 4:04 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 4:04 p.m. ET By Here are some key endorsements Biden has picked up since South Carolina. Image Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Norfolk, Va., on Sunday. Credit... Carlos Bernate for The New York Times After a dominating win in South Carolina on Saturday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. has picked up several endorsements from high-profile lawmakers that could help boost his performance on Super Tuesday. On Monday he got more good news: Amy Klobuchar was ending her campaign and planned to endorse Mr. Biden, according to a person close to the Minnesota senator. Pete Buttigieg also planned to endorse the former vice president, according to a person informed of his decision. And Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, announced his support for Mr. Biden’s candidacy. Here are a few other key endorsements Mr. Biden has procured since Saturday night: Representative Don Beyer of Virginia

Former Senator Barbara Boxer of California

Representative Gil Cisneros of California

Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas

Former Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas

Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia

Representative Bobby Scott of Virginia

Representative Greg Stanton of Arizona

Former Senator Mark Udall of Colorado

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida

Representative Jennifer Wexton of Virginia Read more

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March 2, 2020, 2:43 p.m. ET March 2, 2020, 2:43 p.m. ET By Bloomberg says Klobuchar and Buttigieg ‘behaved themselves,’ and he’s ‘in it to win it.’ MANASSAS, Va. — Michael R. Bloomberg projected confidence on Monday and showed no sign of rethinking his presidential bid even as the field continued to shrink, declaring, “I’m in it to win it.” “I’ve won three elections so far,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a canvass kickoff in Northern Virginia, where he addressed dozens of supporters outside a campaign office. “I don’t plan to start losing now.” Mr. Bloomberg spoke shortly after the news broke that Amy Klobuchar was ending her presidential bid and endorsing Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said he had spoken to Ms. Klobuchar as well as Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out of the race on Sunday. Mr. Bloomberg said he wished them well. “I thought both of them behaved themselves, is a nice way to phrase it, but they represented their country and their states very well,” he said. “And I felt sorry for them, but I’m in it to win it.” Read more