It was an "enormous relief" to see "America come home' to vote for Joe Biden, Sen. Chris Coons, a long time supporter of the former vice president's, said Monday after his wins in nine states.
"Folks in Delaware never stopped believing in Joe," the Democrat senator, who like Biden is from Delaware, told CNN's "New Day." "We know that he's been standing up to bullies his whole life. We know that he's never forgotten where he's from."
Further, said Coons, Biden has "the ability to take down Donald Trump and make him a one-term president."
However, it was a relief to see the millions of voters who decided after Biden's primary win in South Carolina, and the "remarkable endorsements" in Texas by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, and ex-Rep. Beto O'Rourke, and "slingshot" forward by Rep. Jim Clyburn, R-S.C., opted to "There were lots of pundits who were predicting against what I thought in my gut that last night would be a big win for Bernie Sanders, that the hundreds of millions of dollars that Mike Bloomberg spent all across the country were going to make a big difference, that the ground game and the organization that Sen. (Elizabeth) Warren had built in a number of states would make a big difference," said Coons.
Meanwhile, Trump is "right to be afraid" of Biden, said Coons.
But the big challenge moving forward will be to unite the party, as Sanders is still fighting hard, said Coons.
But with Sanders, "the math just isn't there," said Coons. "The candidate who brought lots more voters into our coalition and brought them out to vote last night was Joe Biden. If you look at his numbers, he has far exceeded the projections and voter turnout in 2016."
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