The Associated Press called the race for the former secretary of state over rival Vermont Sen.
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During a raucous victory rally, Clinton briefly reveled in her sweeping support from SC voters, hugging backers and posing with them for selfie photos. “It’s a 50-state election and we’re feeling very confident, actually”, she said. “We are not taking anything, and we’re not taking anyone, for granted”. Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again, America has never stopped being great.
However, Clinton holds a strong lead in the Southern states voting next week, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Clinton was viewed as the overwhelming favorite to win the primary in SC.
“Let me be clear on one thing tonight”, Sanders wrote in the email.
“We are listening to the pain and needs of ordinary people, and not to the needs of billionaire campaign contributors”, Sanders said in the speech, simultaneously seeking to draw differences between both Clinton and the Republican nominees.
“We know that beyond Super Tuesday, the states are a lot more favorable for Bernie Sanders including Washington”, said Kato.
It was here in 2008 that Barack Obama dealt her campaign a fatal blow with a 28-point victory and at one time the former secretary-of-state looked as if her second run for the White House might stall in a similar way. He’s hopping around the country, campaigning in many “Super Tuesday” states.
He added: “Our grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won’t stop now”.
The result was Clinton’s third victory in the first four Democratic contests, and raised more questions about whether Sanders, the democratic socialist US senator from Vermont, will be able to expand his support beyond his base of predominantly white liberals.
Early returns showed Clinton capturing 78 percent of the vote among primary voters, while Sen.
Without a black candidate on the ballot, some observers have wondered whether black and other minority voters, who were so crucial to the Obama coalition, would turn out at the same levels this year as they did in the 2008 primaries.
Clinton mentioned the five mothers by name that she recognized at CNN’s Democratic town hall on Tuesday – five African-American women who have lost their children to senseless gun violence or at the hands of police. More than half of them were minorities.
Clinton’s campaign saw SC as an important jumpstart heading into a busy March.
Among black voters over 65, Clinton beat Sanders 96 percent to 3 percent, according to NBC News exit polls. His pledge to fix a rigged economic system and to provide free college were met more with skepticism than enthusiasm.
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With nearly all counting done, Clinton bagged a massive 73.5 per cent votes as against just 26 per cent by Sanders. In the email, Sanders thanked those in SC who stood behind him. To emphasize the point, Sanders spent Saturday night in Minnesota instead of SC.
