Pete Buttigieg's decision to end his presidential candidacy marked the "real beginning" of the Democrats' plan to once again keep Sen. Bernie Sanders from being nominated, President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet shortly after the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor announced he was dropping out.
"Pete Buttigieg is OUT," Trump tweeted Sunday night. "All of his Super Tuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play - NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!"
Buttigieg left the race just two days before the vital Super Tuesday primaries, which put one-third of the delegates in the nomination process at stake. The former mayor had tried to capture more moderate voters and had complained that Sanders was too liberal to win the presidency, reports Fox News.
Sanders' lead of more thn 30 delegates over former Vice President Joe Biden shrank to just eight after Biden's win Saturday in South Carolina, where he picked up 35 delegates to Sanders' 13. Six other delegates will be allocated after the final vote is tallied.
Currently, Sanders has 58 delegates to Biden's 50. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has eight and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., has seven. It will take 1,991 delegates to win the nomination.
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