Exit polls showed the former secretary amassing an astonishing 87 percent of the African-American vote in sc.
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are facing off in the SC primary, the latest battleground for the Democratic presidential nomination.
SC marks the second straight contest won by Clinton, and her third win in the first four states to vote.
Clinton’s will pick up most of South Carolina’s delegates, widening her overall lead in AP’s count.
“Move together into the future that we will make, thank you, god bless you, and god bless America”, Clinton said as she left the stage.
“Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers”, said Clinton, who would be America’s first woman president.
“She’s the best candidate”, said Kennedy, who is African-American. Sanders still won a majority of SC voters under 30, although that split was far more even than in earlier states and smaller than Obama’s 2008 margin.
When asked which candidate they thought “can win in November”, an overwhelming 79 percent said Clinton, with only 21 percent putting their faith in Sanders to defeat the eventual Republican nominee.
The victory in SC puts Clinton in a strong position ahead of the twelve states (and American Samoa) holding either a primary or caucus on Super Tuesday, when 1,017 delegates are up for grabs.
The former secretary of state won the SC primary in a landslide vote Saturday night.
Sanders said he knows what happened Saturday night: “We got decimated, that’s what happened”. Sanders congratulated Clinton but said the campaign was just beginning.
“Tomorrow, this campaign goes national!”
Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist who represents Vermont in the US Senate, headed earlier Saturday to Texas, where he told some 10,000 people that he has been this election’s comeback kid. Still supporters in North Carolina are confident he’s the candidate to win over Democrats here.
“Let me be clear on one thing tonight”. Bernie Sanders cheer and hold up signs, including one of Sanders, during a campaign rally at Colorado State University Sunday.
For the Sanders campaign, it was a devastating result in the South. But he has captured young voters in astonishing numbers and is raising more money than Clinton, ensuring that he will remain in the race – and remain a threat.
However, a higher percentage of black voters turned out for this race than in 2008, according to an exit poll from the Associated Press. Bernie Sanders, and almost 50 percent of women.
White voters were more closely divided between Clinton and Sanders. “Our grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won’t stop now”. This could help her on Tuesday, when voters in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia decide who they will support.
The primary reflected a strength among black voters, who make up more than half of the party’s primary electorate in SC.
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The analysis also shows close to Clinton’s best day, including winning Colorado, Massachusetts and Oklahoma – all places Sanders is targeting.
