{"id":136568,"date":"2020-03-18T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T02:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/18\/biden-calls-for-americans-to-put-politics-aside-after-winning-florida-and-illinois-primaries-live\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T02:00:03","slug":"biden-calls-for-americans-to-put-politics-aside-after-winning-florida-and-illinois-primaries-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136568","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls for Americans to &#039;put politics aside&#039; after winning Florida and Illinois primaries \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice-president delivers remarks from DelawareSanders proposes $2,000 monthly payments for coronavirus reliefCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesDemocratic primaries results \u2013 follow the votesSupport the Guardian\u2019s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.00am GMT A number of Democratic strategists are declaring the presidential primary to be effectively over after Joe Biden\u2019s victories in Florida and Illinois.\u201cThis is over,\u201d former Obama adviser David Axelrod said on CNN. \u201cIt\u2019s over. The election is over tonight. I think that is very clear.\u201d 1.45am GMT Joe Biden celebrated his primary victories in Florida and Illinois, saying his campaign had had a \u201cvery good night\u201d and moved closer to securing the nomination.The former vice president then made a pitch for unity, directly addressing the supporters of Bernie Sanders and asserting it was time to \u201cput politics aside.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/mar\/17\/democratic-primaries-2020-live-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-arizona-florida-illinois-latest-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Biden calls for Americans to &#039;put politics aside&#039; after winning Florida and Illinois primaries \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice-president delivers remarks from DelawareSanders proposes $2,000 monthly payments for coronavirus reliefCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesDemocratic primaries results \u2013 follow the votesSupport the Guardian\u2019s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.00am GMT A number of Democratic strategists are declaring the presidential primary to be effectively over after Joe Biden\u2019s victories in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}