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  A day after President Trump’s stinging defeat in the Supreme Court, Republicans around the country seemed to be having trouble finding the right words. © Samuel Corum for The New York Times  Republican officials who issued statements on Saturday mostly seemed to acknowledge that all legal avenues had been exhausted in President Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. The bellicose statements from some quarters that had characterized the postelection period — claims of switched and missing votes, a “rigged” election and even threats of secession from Texas Republicans after the ruling on Friday — had given way to something resembling muted resignation and an acceptance of the inevitable Many were completely silent, even in the face of a  tweet  from Mr. Trump himself in which he vowed, “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!” Of  17 Republican attorneys general  who had endorsed the case, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, none agreed to be inter...

One day after a disastrous showing in Tuesday’s primaries, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, announced he was suspending his unconventional bid for president and would endorse Super Tuesday’s surprise winner, Joe Biden. “Three months ago, I entered the race for President to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I am leaving the race for the same reason: to defeat Donald Trump — because it is clear to me that staying in would make achieving that goal more difficult,” Bloomberg said in a statement released by his campaign. “I’m a believer in using data to inform decisions. After yesterday’s results, the delegate math has become virtually impossible — and a viable path to the nomination no longer exists.” Bloomberg won a smattering of delegates in several races Tuesday, including four in American Samoa, the only contest he won, but fell far short in states he had pinned his hopes on, especially North Carolina, where he was struggling to reach the 15 percent th...

They call it Super Tuesday for a reason .  Fourteen states are set to vote on a single day, including California and Texas, the nation's two most populous. It's the most consequential day of primary season, and when it's over more than a third of all convention delegates will have been pledged.  Leading ✓ Winner All times PT Biden Bloomberg Sanders Warren Alabama 77.9%  reporting ✓ 63.4 % 12.1 % 16.1 % 5.3 % Arkansas 75.1% ✓ 38.3 17.5 22.2 10.0 California 0.9% 16.1 21.1 ✓ 28.1 9.4 Colorado 51.1% 22.0 22.3 ✓ 35.9 17.1 Maine 59.0% 34.0 11.5 33.6 16.2 Massachusetts 71.4% ✓ 33.6 11.6 27.2 20.8 Minnesota 74.7% ✓ 38.1 8.2 30.2 15.9 North Carolina 86.8% ✓ 41.4 13.6 23.9 10.5 Oklahoma 100.0% ✓ 38.7 13.9 25.4 13.4 Tennessee 88.8% ✓ 43.0 16.0 24.4 9.2 Texas 35.3% 26.7 17.6 28.6 12.3 Utah 51.8% 14.5 19.0 ✓ 31.3 15.0 Vermont 95.6% 22.0 9.3 ✓ 50.9 12.5 Virginia 100.0% ✓ 53.3 9.7 23.1 10.3 he demographics of Super Tuesday The 14 Super Tuesday states are...