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Joe Biden builds on his delegate lead in Tuesday's Democratic primary contests, beating Bernie Sanders in Michigan, Idaho, Mississippi and Missouri.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has put an exclamation point on his Super Tuesday victories by winning the most delegates on the presidential primary calendar's biggest night. The Associated Press has allocated more than 92% of the 1,344 delegates that were up for grabs on Tuesday, and Biden has such a commanding lead that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cannot catch up as the remaining votes from that day’s 14 state primaries are counted. Biden built his delegate lead on Tuesday by racking up huge victories in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia, while scoring a narrow win in Texas. In all, Biden won 10 states and Sanders won four.

Joe Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. Barring some very large, unexpected event, he will be his party’s standard bearer against Donald Trump in November. The race is not fully over, but we’ve progressed to the endgame. As of Wednesday morning, Biden will have a slight delegate lead over Bernie Sanders in a spot where his glide path required only that he not be trailing by more than 150 (or so) delegates. Over the next two weeks, Biden will win overwhelming victories in Florida and Mississippi. He is likely to win in Ohio, Arizona, Illinois, and Missouri. A week after that, he will win a large victory in Georgia.