Joe Biden easily won South Carolina’s Democratic primary
President Joe Biden handily won South Carolina's Democratic primary on Saturday, securing a state he urged to kick off his party's nomination process after it resurrected his then-struggling white house campaign four years ago.
Biden defeated the other long-shot Democrats on South Carolina's ticket, including Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson. His reelection campaign invested extensively on increasing turnout as a test of its attempts to mobilise Black voters, a vital Democratic bloc critical to Biden's hopes in a potential november rematch with former President Donald Trump.
"In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the presidency," said Vice President Joe Biden in a statement. "Now, in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken once more, and I have no doubt that you have put us on track to win the presidency again — and make donald trump a loser once more.
The Associated press proclaimed Biden the victor at 7:23 p.m., citing an analysis of early vote returns that showed him with a significant advantage in key places across the state.
His victory comes after he led a Democratic National Committee drive to have South Carolina take the lead in the party's primary, citing the state's more ethnically diverse population as opposed to the traditional first-in-the-nation states of Iowa and New Hampshire, which are mainly white.
South Carolina is dependably Republican, yet 26% of the population is Black. According to ap VoteCast, an extensive poll of 2020 voters, Black voters accounted for 11% of the national electorate, with 9 in 10 supporting Biden.
Biden argued for a new primary timetable in which Nevada would come in second, with its primary on Tuesday. The revised timetable also puts Michigan's Democratic primary, a huge and diverse swing state, to february 27, before the vast field of states voting on march 5, known as Super Tuesday.
Biden defeated the other long-shot Democrats on South Carolina's ticket, including Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson. His reelection campaign invested extensively on increasing turnout as a test of its attempts to mobilise Black voters, a vital Democratic bloc critical to Biden's hopes in a potential november rematch with former President Donald Trump.
"In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the presidency," said Vice President Joe Biden in a statement. "Now, in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken once more, and I have no doubt that you have put us on track to win the presidency again — and make donald trump a loser once more.
The Associated press proclaimed Biden the victor at 7:23 p.m., citing an analysis of early vote returns that showed him with a significant advantage in key places across the state.
His victory comes after he led a Democratic National Committee drive to have South Carolina take the lead in the party's primary, citing the state's more ethnically diverse population as opposed to the traditional first-in-the-nation states of Iowa and New Hampshire, which are mainly white.
South Carolina is dependably Republican, yet 26% of the population is Black. According to ap VoteCast, an extensive poll of 2020 voters, Black voters accounted for 11% of the national electorate, with 9 in 10 supporting Biden.
Biden argued for a new primary timetable in which Nevada would come in second, with its primary on Tuesday. The revised timetable also puts Michigan's Democratic primary, a huge and diverse swing state, to february 27, before the vast field of states voting on march 5, known as Super Tuesday.