Early projections favor Biden to win the majority of Mississippi's 36 delegates and Missouri's 68. Exit polls showed the former vice president coming out of Mississippi with more than three times the votes of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and leading in Missouri by over 20 points.

Sanders is considered the clear favorite to repeat his 2016 success in North Dakota, where 14 delegates are at stake. With just 14 voting sites for the entire state, some went so far as to cry "voter suppression."

Having won the most delegates in last week's Super Tuesday contests, Biden is leading Sanders by 670 pledged delegates to the Vermont senator's 574. While neither is anywhere near the 1,991 needed for an outright victory, the party establishment's support for Biden all but guarantees that the unpledged 'superdelegates' will line up behind him at the convention in Milwaukee, just like they did in 2016 for Hillary Clinton.

Democratic Party frontrunner Joe Biden edged out rival Bernie Sanders as polls closed in Michigan, with early counts giving him 52.1 percent of the vote. Voters in some cities were still waiting to cast their ballots, however, with some waiting an average of three hours.

Before polls closed, state officials warned that primary results would likely be delayed due to a backlog in counting absentee ballots. The state expanded its vote-by-mail options to all citizens last year and has already received over 800,000 absentee votes, which it was only permitted to start counting Tuesday morning.

While pre-election polls showed Biden with a comfortable lead over his rival, the candidate did himself no favors with Michigan voters, getting into a shouting match with a factory worker during a campaign stop on Tuesday after the man accused him of trying to take Americans' guns. Instead of trying to smooth-talk his way out of it, the former vice president called the worker a "horse's ass" who was "full of s**t," shocking onlookers.

Sanders himself had staked his hopes on winning Michigan, telling reporters last week that it was the "most important state" for his campaign.

Sanders supporters have accused the Democratic National Committee of rigging several states' primaries against their candidate, noting suspicious disparities between exit polls and reported vote totals in South Carolina, Texas, and Massachusetts.

But not everyone was buying the "Biden wave."

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"The Biden campaign has a strategic interest in intimidating social media companies into suppressing true and embarrassing video evidence of Joe Biden's continued inability to communicate coherently.

"Still, it appears that many people employed by Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley are assisting the Biden campaign" by enforcing a rule that effectively censors any speech which "Biden's campaign and its supporters do not like," the letter continues.

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The Trump team also countered with its own examples of deceptive or manipulated videos put out by the Biden campaign, singling out three clips it said used selective editing to "mislead Americans and give a false impression" of President Trump - including one video edited to make it appear that Trump had described neo-Nazis as "very fine people."

Though at the time the president immediately clarified "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists," who he said should be "condemned totally," that did not stop the Biden campaign from circulating the edited footage without consequence.

Another clip from a recent campaign rally was modified to suggest Trump had dismissed the coronavirus as a "hoax." While the president did use the two words in the same sentence, he had actually accused his Democratic opponents of committing the 'hoax' by exploiting the lethal illness to score political points. That video also failed to earn a disclaimer from the social media giant or its allies in the corporate press.

Having taken no action against those videos and others, the campaign demanded the company prove that it is "not seeking to protect Joe Biden" and finally start applying its standards "equally across the board."