According to a Suffolk University poll released Sunday evening, the former secretary of state has the support of 50 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in the Bay State, leading Sanders’ with 42 percent. Seventy-four percent of the Democratic electorate said the next president should generally continue Obama’s policies, and Clinton won those voters 81 to 19 percent, per exit polls. “We are not taking anything for granted”.
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Seeing the two Democratic candidates come together, not just for themselves or their campaigns, but for regular people like these two – who just want to live in a world where they aren’t held to negative stereotypes based on the color of their skin or the religion they believe in – was powerful. Clinton replied: “Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again, America has never stopped being great”, she told cheering supporters in Columbia after the win.
Of the 717 superdelegates, who are free to support whomever they like, Clinton has already won commitments from more than half of them.
Last October, Sanders’ strategist suggested that the candidate only needed to win 30 per cent of the black vote in the state to win the state.
An average from several national polls shows Clinton has a large lead over Sanders in nearly every state that will vote on Super Tuesday.
Sanders, expecting defeat in SC on Saturday, left the state even before voting was finished and turned his attention to some of the states that vote in next Tuesday’s delegate-rich contests. “You are correct. But I think you’re going to see us doing much better within the African American community outside of the Deep South. You’re going to see us doing much better in NY state, where I think we have a shot to win, in California and in MI”.
“We think we’ve got a lot of work in front of us, but, George, I think we can win this thing”, Sanders said. In the midst of that, Clinton and Sanders debate again, this time March 6 in Flint, Michigan. “She learned that she can’t ride her husband’s coattails and belittle the Obama voter”, she said. Unfortunately, she was disregarded entirely and was dismissed by Clinton, as the surrounding people hissed at her and told her she was being rude. She won 9 of every 10 black voters, as well as women, men, urban, suburban, rural, very liberal and conservative voters.
Amid Clinton’s renewed momentum against Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, donors have also found resolve.
Foxx, who joined the Obama administration in 2013, spent Sunday touring African-American churches in New Orleans.
“He’s got to pull off a surprise against Clinton soon or he won’t have time to recover”, said Phil Noble, a longtime Democratic activist in SC. Clinton made a stop in Alabama, a Super Tuesday state, before returning to Columbia, South Carolina’s capital, for an evening victory party.
Looking ahead to Tuesday, Clinton’s aides know they are not going to knock Sanders out on March 1, but they hope by the end of the night on Tuesday – where 865 delegates are at stake – their campaign will have at least a 100 earned delegate lead over the Vermont senator.
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Sanders’ supporters were braced for the loss, but the drubbing will be a test of his small-dollar fundraising apparatus, which is the lifeblood of his campaign. But in her stump and issue-specific speeches, Clinton has referred to ways by which issues, such as Voter ID laws, gun violence, criminal justice reform, gender wage imbalances and the long unchanged minimum wage, directly and even more deeply shape and distort the lives of black and Latino Americans. The former secretary of state campaigned in MA on Monday and was holding events later in the day in Virginia, another general election battleground holding its primary on Super Tuesday.
