The South Carolina Democratic primary is this Saturday, and voters in 12 states go to the polls on Super Tuesday just days later. Instead, the group, which is funded by a super PAC that supports House Republicans, asked questions based upon a television interview with Democratic Party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in which she was pressed to define the difference between a Democrat and a socialist.
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The Republican candidates are gone and the Democrats are next to win SC. Clinton has long held a healthy lead over Sanders in national polls but Sanders has recently been catching up fast.
It seemed, in theory, that the evangelical, staunchly conservative Texan Ted Cruz could be more appealing to Southern voters than Trump, a New Yorker who is not particularly ideologically conservative or religious. “I think there’s an underlying question that maybe is really in the back of people’s minds, and that is, you know, ‘Is she in it for us, or is she in it for herself?'” Mrs. Clinton said.
“He gets a lot of his support from white college students”.
There are more than 1,400 delegates at stake in states such as South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana, and depending on the outcome and proportional allocation of delegates, Clinton could build a comfortable lead.
Allies of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign continue to push hard on the issue of historically black colleges, arguing that the college affordability plan of Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, would hurt these institutions.
She is far ahead of Sanders in the next contest here on Saturday and is likely to expand her overall lead in delegates.
With Missouri’s primary set for March 15, Sanders would touch partisans in both states shortly before the two states vote.
“Ultimately, he probably needs some sort of new development – an indictment of Clinton in her email scandal or something else – to win the nomination”, Kondik said.
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“This is about a slog, state by state by state”, he said.
