CBS News projects a big win for Hillary Clinton based on exit poll interviews.
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Clinton was declared the victor by nearly all major US TV networks at the end of the voting.
CNN reported that its exit polls showed Clinton won the African American vote 84-16 percent. She won the support of almost 9 in 10 black voters, crucial Democratic backers who abandoned her for Obama in 2008.
Sanders, expecting defeat on Saturday, left SC even before voting finished and turned his attention to some of the states that vote in next Tuesday’s delegate-rich contests. He issued a statement that congratulated Clinton, but vowed to fight on.
“People say she ran the governor’s office in Arkansas”, Mary Sobah, a black retired nurse in SC, told the New York Times this week. The presidential candidate dominated at the SC democratic primary, taking home a large percentage of the votes, and winning an impressive number of delegates with it. Click through for more details! In 2008, about 530,000 voters went to the polls for the Democratic primary, and Clinton got only 27 percent of the vote against Barack Obama.
Sanders was likely hoping to show that he could win over the younger demographic in SC just as he did in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent seeking the Democratic nomination, in all but two of 20 primaries and caucuses with polling through March 15, when half of all Democratic delegates will be awarded.
While Sanders has the money to stay in the race deep into the spring, Clinton’s campaign sees a chance to build enough of a delegate lead to put the race out of reach during the sprint through March.
“We are fighting the fight for the survival of the working class of this country”, Sanders said Friday in Hibbing, Minnesota. Consistent with these numbers, the proportion of voters from rural areas (more heavily black) has significantly increased, while the suburban vote (more heavily white) has significantly decreased compared with 2008.
Hilary Clinton has secured victory against Bernie Sanders in the SC primary.
At one point in her victory speech Saturday, Clinton seemed to be trying to look past Sanders, rhetorically taking on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Clinton won by 75% or more with voters between ages 30 and 64, and she won 89% of voters aged 65 or older.
The victory in SC will allow Clinton to re-claim the psychic mantle of “front-runner”, for better or worse, and to add to her lead in Democratic delegates.
Clinton and Sanders will both hold rallies in Boston tomorrow, the day before Super Tuesday, when MA will be one of 11 states holding Democratic primaries. And when he arrived in Minnesota, he addressed the primary results just briefly – to the reporters who had traveled on the plane with him.
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Hillary was vying for the African-American vote in SC. Sanders, meanwhile, tops Clinton by a roughly 60%-40% margin among white voters.
