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Minnesota DFLers have made their decision. And their top choice for president is Joe Biden. The Associated Press called the primary for the former vice president 45 minutes after polls closed. Biden got an 11th hour boost from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who dropped out of the race Monday and tossed her endorsement to him.


Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also get Minnesota delegates. The two senators both cleared 15 percent of the vote. Check here for full results. Until the very end of campaigning, Sanders had a 6-point lead on Klobuchar, who was second in the polling.


Klobuchar’s endorsement appears to have swung the vote in Minnesota. “Words can't explain how excited I am,” said Corey Day, Biden’s state director, after the AP called the race for Biden. “Without [Klobuchar's] support, we could never have gotten to this place.”


Across the nation, the race is between Sanders and Biden The former vice president won Texas and a score of other states, while Sanders’ main prize was California.


Federal authorities are scrambling to keep up with the coronavirus as its death toll rises. The Federal Reserve cut the interest rate by a half-percentage point to try staving off economic damage while the Food and Drug and Administration responded to a shortage of face masks by allowing health workers to use an industrial respirator mask.


The goal is for U.S. labs to have the capacity to run 1 million COVID-19 tests by the end of the week. However, testing hasn’t gone smoothly so far and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state said health professionals have told her that goal is unrealistic. Murray’s state has seen the most cases of the new coronavirus disease and several deaths.


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9 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller

Super Tuesday was a big day for the remaining Democratic presidential candidates, with nearly one-third of the delegates needed for nomination up for grabs. We look at turnout, voter support and the path ahead toward Election Day.

10 a.m. — 1A

After the biggest day of the Democratic primary, who's waking up this Wednesday feeling super about Tuesday? A complete picture will take days. But the nominating contest should look clearer now that 14 states have weighed in. The latest locally and nationally from WBHM in Birmingham, Ala., next time on 1A.

11 a.m. —MPR News with Angela Davis

First, what do Super Tuesday’s results mean for Minnesota? MPR News reporter Mark Zdechlik joins Angela to talk about Tuesday’s results.

Then, there’s a lot of disinformation swirling around the internet during this election year, and it’s targeting adults. Researchers at Princeton and New York universities found that Facebook users 65 and older posted seven times as many articles from fake news websites, compared with adults under 29. Two experts join Angela to explore why older adults struggle to decipher what’s real and what not. And we’ll learn best practices to prevent spreading disinformation on social media.

12 p.m. — MPR News Presents

A new debate from the Intelligence Squared series: "Is the two-party system good for democracy?" The keynote speaker is Joanne Freeman of Yale University. On the “yes” side: Yascha Mounk of Harvard and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. On the “no” side: Lee Drutman, author of "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop" and Katherine Gehl, entrepreneur and political reformer.

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