Two victory speeches were delivered on Super Tuesday night. The first came from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who told his supporters in Vermont he would be the Democratic nominee with absolute confidence. The second victory speech was from former Vice President Joe Biden , who swept the night and put a serious dent in Sanderss path to the nomination.

Biden claimed a clear resurgence on Super Tuesday, balking at those who said the race was over for him after his poor performance in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.

It may be over for the other guy, Biden said in Los Angeles, in an apparent jab at Sanders.

Ironically, California was among the few states that didnt show Biden much love on Tuesday. Sanders appeared to be easily winning the state. California had the most delegates up for grabs Tuesday night. But of the 14 states that voted on March 3, Biden decisively won the South and outperformed the polls in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maine and Texas. He racked up a significant number of delegates and is poised to lead Sanders in the count.

Roughly a third of all the pledged delegates of the 2020 Democratic primary were up for grabs Tuesday. The 14 states and the territory that voted were California (415 delegates), Texas (228 delegates), North Carolina (110 delegates), Virginia (99 delegates), Massachusetts (91 delegates), Minnesota (75 delegates), Colorado (67 delegates), Tennessee (64 delegates), Alabama (52 delegates), Oklahoma (37 delegates), Arkansas (31 delegates), Utah (29 delegates), Maine (24 delegates), Vermont (16 delegates) and American Samoa (6 delegates). Democrats abroad will also begin voting Tuesday, though their voting period will last a week.

Tuesday cemented the primary as a two-person race between Sanders and Biden. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg failed his first electoral test, despite pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the race. And Warren finished in third place in her home state of Massachusetts.

Here are five takeaways from the night.

South Carolina really did matter.

Bidens campaign said South Carolinas primary would change everything for his candidacy. It did.

Three days before Super Tuesday, Biden won the South Carolina primary by a 20-percentage-point margin. Two days later, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the running and endorsed Biden. Bidens campaign didnt have nearly the same campaign infrastructure set up in Super Tuesday states. It had one field office in Virginia. It spent a fraction of money as did the other campaigns on advertising . The campaign spent less than $500,000 on TV in Texas, and, unlike the Sanders and Bloomberg campaigns, none was in Spanish.

We didnt have a penny on television, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said on CNN of Texas. Not a penny.

But it didnt matter.

Undecided voters overwhelmingly broke for Biden and gave him big victories in Virginia, North Carolina and Texas, according to NBCs exit polls. He was able to win Black voters in the South despite coming up short behind Sanders with Latino voters.

Going into Super Tuesday, the more moderate wing of the Democratic Party consolidated around Biden; Buttigieg and Klobuchar endorsed him, as did former Rep. Beto ORourke, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who wields influence among Black voters in Virginia, and other California, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina and Texas electeds. In one weekend, the campaign raised more than $10 million its biggest single-day fundraising haul in the entire campaign cycle.

Super Tuesday catapulted Biden to front-runner status and he did it with little campaigning in those states.

Bernie Sanders lost late-deciding voters.