Vermont senator’s allies grapple with the fallout from a Super Tuesday stumble. Campaign moves on to focus on states holding the next series of primary contests on March 10 and 17: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Washington state.
The former vice president's strong performance ended Bernie Sanders' status as the Democratic front-runner.
Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg unite behind Joe Biden’s presidential bid as the Democratic Party’s moderate wing scrambles to boost the former vice president.
The Vermont senator and the Minnesota congresswoman will hold a joint rally in her home state a day before Super Tuesday.
Decisive win gives Joe Biden a burst of momentum in the Democratic race to challenge Republican President Donald Trump, which broadens quickly with Super Tuesday primaries in 14 states in three days that will award one-third of the available national delegates.
Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina, sees Jewish senator from Vermont profess he is "proud of being Jewish," while lamenting that "right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through Bibi Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country." Sanders also vows to move US Embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv.
In tweet, Republican Jewish Coalition warns socialist senator's rise in Democratic contest could spell danger to Israel. He "supports forcing our ally Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, to surrender its sovereignty to the foreign policy whims of the far Left," it warns.
The day before the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary, President Donald Trump suggested Republicans might want to cross over and "vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats." But Chuck Muth had another reason to support Sanders.
As Sanders celebrated, Joe Biden was in second place. Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren trailed further behind.
"It is outrageous that a mainstream US political party candidate for president would call the Israeli government racist," Republican Jewish Coalition attacks. "It's especially ironic to hear that from Sanders, who has chosen virulently anti-Israel and anti-Semitic individuals to represent him."