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Roundtable: March Primary Recap

By Pat Finn / Producer ,  Mark Sauer / Host, The Roundtable
Published March 6, 2020 at 9:55 AM PST
This story was published more than 4 years ago.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary election night campaign rally Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Los Angeles.
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary election night campaign rally Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Los Angeles.

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Michael Smolens, The San Diego Union-Tribune

David Garrick, The San Diego Union-Tribune

Seth Combs, freelance journalist

Joe Biden Lives!

As of Friday, 33.8% of voters in California voted for Bernie Sanders for president, with 25.1% voting for Joe Biden. But the big majority of states with primary elections on Super Tuesday went the opposite way, adding to Biden's delegate count instead. The Super Tuesday fallout has been fierce, with Mike Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg dropping out of the race and revitalizing Biden's teetering presidential bid.

RELATED: Gloria Headed For San Diego Mayor Runoff; Sherman, Bry Battling For Second Spot

Heading for second in the mayor's race

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Democrat Todd Gloria was firmly in first place for the race for San Diego Mayor. But his challenger in November is not as clear with Republican Scott Sherman and Democrat Barbara Bry is a very tight race for second. The totals as of Friday are: Gloria 40.8%, Sherman 24.6%, and Bry 23.7%.

53rd and 50th Congressional Races

Democrat Sara Jacobs, an anti-poverty advocate and granddaughter of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, leads the race for the 53rd Congressional District with 29.6% of the vote to San Diego City Councilwoman Georgette Gómez's 19.2%.

RELATED: Jacobs Leads In 53rd District Race With Gomez In Second

Ammar Campa-Najjar, the lone Democrat running in the 50th Congressional District to fill the seat vacated by convicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, was leading Tuesday's primary over former GOP Congressman Darrell Issa. Issa is seeking a return to the House after retiring two years ago. The totals as of Friday are: Ammar Campa-Najjar 34.4, Darrell Issa 29.5%, and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio 21%.

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RELATED: In Contested 50th Congressional District, Campa-Najjar, Issa Appear Headed For Runoff

Measuring the Measures

Measure C, which would expand the San Diego's bayfront convention center and guarantee a steady stream of revenue to address the homeless crisis, is trailing, falling just short of the two-thirds majority it needed to prevail. As of Friday, the total of yes votes were inching upward to 64.1%.

Measure A, requiring public votes on most large housing projects in rural and semi-rural parts of the county, appeared headed for defeat. Meanwhile, Measure B, which asked voters to affirm the county Board of Supervisors' approval of the 2,135-home Newland Sierra Project, was failing by a sizable and widening spread.

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Pat Finn
Pat Finn previously served as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition and KPBS Evening Edition. Finn began her career in broadcasting at KTLA and KCET in Los Angeles. In 1979 she became KPBS’ Public Information Director, then Director of Advertising and Promotion, Program Director, and Director of Broadcasting. She oversaw the station’s local and national productions, including the one-hour documentary Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar, and Child Protective Services, a one-hour look inside the San Diego County agency responsible for the welfare of at risk children. Both programs also aired on public television stations nationwide. Finn has earned honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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Mark Sauer
A newspaperman for more than 30 years, Mark Sauer joined KPBS in October 2010 and previously served as the host of the KPBS Roundtable. He spent 27 years as a reporter and editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune after stints at The Houston Post and at two papers in his native Michigan. A features/human-interest writer in the UT's Currents section for many years, Mark also spent about a third of his UT career as an editor and reporter on the Metro Desk. He has covered a wide range of events: Wild fires in Southern California and Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast; Super Bowls and the World Series; foster care and child-abuse issues; the Roman Catholic Diocese's sexual-abuse scandal and bankruptcy; royal visits of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Princess Diana; Republican and Democratic national conventions; high-profile criminal trials; and many other stories, from the silly to the sublime. Along the way, he interviewed everyone from presidents to pan-handlers. His work exposing the false accusations and prosecutions of several San Diegans for murder, rape and child abuse garnered Pulitzer Prize nominations and many regional and local journalism awards, including Best in the West, the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism and several San Diego and California bar-association awards. Mark has a degree in journalism from Michigan State University.
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