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Biden Defeats Sanders in 3 Democratic Presidential Contests

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden swept to victories
   Tuesday over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential
   nominating contests in three states, including pivotal Michigan in the
   Midwest heartland of the country.

   Biden, in his third run for the presidency over three decades,
   increased his lead in the race to oppose Republican President Donald
   Trump in November's national election with the wins in the U.S. auto
   manufacturing hub of Michigan, along with victories in Missouri in the
   Midwest and Mississippi in the South.

   The three victories could set the stage for possible Biden wins in
   three other states that voted Tuesday in the latest in a string of
   Democratic party primaries. The Biden victories make it ever more
   difficult for Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist, to
   overtake him for the party's presidential nomination.

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