Sanders immediately congratulated his rival, while vowing to fight on for the party’s presidential nomination.
”This campaign is just beginning”, he said in a statement.
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But if Sanders loses the African-American vote by similar margins in the upcoming Southern states, like he did in South Carolina, Clinton would likely take a delegate lead hard for him to overcome. “We’re here to win North Carolina and we believe as long as we’re able to talk to the voters of North Carolina, we can win here”, said Dew.
The 50-point loss will not just prey on Mr Sander’s mind, but it will hurt his staffers as well. She barely edged out Mr. Sanders in the leadoff Iowa caucus and suffered an embarrassing blow-out loss in the New Hampshire primary. This could help her on Tuesday, when voters in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia decide who they will support.
But, she said, “we do need to make America whole again”. Clinton was on track to capture 84 percent of those votes. Instead of remaining in the Palmetto State to wait for results, Sanders opted instead to turn his eye toward Super Tuesday states voting March 1.
Sanders, expecting defeat 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.
White voters were more closely divided between Clinton and Sanders. SC was not a state the Sanders campaign conceded; he had 8 offices in the state and some 200 paid staffers.
“Tomorrow, this campaign goes national”, she said. And almost 9 in 10 black voters supported Clinton.
The place where Clinton has developed her significant lead over Sanders is really among superdelegates – 712 elected officials and party elders who can choose which candidate to support and count toward the total needed to win.
Super Tuesday is the most important day of the presidential campaign. Notably, Clinton’s victory was significantly larger than Barack Obama’s primary victory in the state in 2008, when he beat Clinton by capturing 78 percent of the vote. Her victory here gave her 39 delegates of the 53 available.
The victory is the second in a row for Clinton, who triumphed in a hotly contested race last weekend in Nevada.
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Hillary Clinton is the projected victor in the South Carolina Democratic primary, according to multiple media outlets.
