Daily Brew: March 4, 2020

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|  | Today's Brew summarizes results from yesterday’s Democratic presidential primaries, as well as key congressional and statewide contests |

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| Welcome to the Wednesday, March 4, Brew. Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day:

1. Fifteen jurisdictions hold presidential primaries
2. Primary voters decide U.S. Senate races in Alabama, North Carolina
3. Voters in Alabama, Maine defeat statewide ballot measures

Yesterday was Super Tuesday and all of us at Ballotpedia jumped into covering it like we were kids celebrating a second Christmas (we might have even worn our PJs to follow the results). Here’s a summary of key election results from across the country as of 12:00 a.m. ET. And for the latest info, visit our elections results page here.

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# Fifteen jurisdictions hold presidential primaries

Fourteen states and American Samoa held events for the presidential nomination. Here’s what we know as of midnight ET.

* Thirteen total jurisdictions have been called. Two states were pending.
* Joe Biden was the projected winner of Democratic presidential primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Virginia.
* Bernie Sanders was projected to win Democratic primaries in California, Colorado, Utah, and Vermont.
* Michael Bloomberg won the Democratic presidential caucus in American Samoa.
* The outcome of the Democratic primaries in Maine and Texas were pending.
* President Donald Trump won in all 13 states holding Republican primaries on Super Tuesday. He will finish the night with at least 794 delegates.

The map below shows the projected winners of the Democratic primaries held yesterday:

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## Primary voters decide U.S. Senate races in Alabama, North Carolina

We covered 29 battleground primary races last night. Many of those were too-close-to-call as of Brew publication. Here’s one result we can deliver with certainty—for the second straight time, Alabama Republican voters will need a runoff to select a nominee for a U.S. Senate race.

### Alabama

Jeff Sessions and Tommy Tuberville advanced to a Republican primary runoff election for U.S. Senate in Alabama on Tuesday. With 41% of precincts reporting. Sessions had received 32.5% of the vote and Tuberville received 32.4%. Bradley Byrne had received 25.2%. The runoff will be held March 31. A candidate needed more than 50% of the vote to win the primary outright.

The winner of the Republican primary runoff will face Sen. Doug Jones (D) in the general election Nov. 3. Jones was first elected to this seat after defeating Roy Moore (R) in a 2017 special election, 50% to 48%. Jones was the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama since 1992.

### North Carolina

Cal Cunningham defeated Erica Smith and three other candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in North Carolina. Cunningham, a former state senator, was endorsed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Smith has been a state senator since 2015. Incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis (R) was elected to the Senate in 2014 when he defeated incumbent Kay Hagan (D), 48.8% to 47.3%. Three ratings outlets rate the 2020 general election either Toss-up or Lean Republican.

We’ll have more results in this week’s edition of the Heart of the Primaries newsletter, which is sent out every Wednesday during the primary season. Click here to subscribe now and get today’s edition in your email with the latest results from yesterday.

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## Voters in Alabama, Maine defeat statewide ballot measures

We have called results in two of the three statewide measures decided by voters last night. California Proposition 13, the School and College Facilities Bond—had not yet been decided.

### Alabama

Alabama voters defeated Amendment 1, the Appointed Education Board Amendment, which would have renamed the Board and changed it from an elected body to an appointed body. With 50 percent of precincts reporting, 75.1%t of voters opposed the amendment, and 24.9 percent voted in favor .

The measure would have amended the Alabama Constitution to rename the State Board of Education as the Alabama Commission on Elementary and Secondary Education and changed the board from being elected by voters to being appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. The Alabama State Board of Education is an elected executive agency of the Alabama state government, responsible for managing the state's public K-12 education.

### Maine

Voters in Maine defeated Question 1—the Religious and Philosophical Vaccination Exemptions Referendum, 71.5% to 28.5%, based on results with 73% of precincts reporting. Maine Question 1 would have repealed Legislative Document 798 (LD 798), which was designed to eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions from vaccination requirements for students to attend schools and colleges and for employees of healthcare facilities. With the defeat of Question 1, the elimination of religious and philosophical exemptions will go into effect on September 1, 2021.

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