Joe Biden is projected winner in South Carolina Democratic primary
Joe Biden won South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary on Saturday, giving the former vice president his first victory in the 2020 nominating battle and a burst of momentum ahead of the critical Super Tuesday contests next week.
Biden’s campaign may enjoy only a short-lived boost, however, as he faces a steeper test on Super Tuesday. Sanders, currently the leader in the delegate count, is topping polls of states including California and Texas, and is the front-runner in national surveys, according to RealClearPolitics. Sanders held a rally Saturday in Warren’s home state of Massachusetts, and projected confidence as that state’s voters prepared to go to polls Tuesday. “If we have the largest voter turnout in the history of the Massachusetts primary, we can win here in Massachusetts, we can win the Democratic nomination, we can defeat Donald Trump and we can transform this country,” Sanders said in Boston, according to the Boston Herald.
Health care was the leading issue among South Carolina’s Democratic voters, according to the Associated Press. Sanders’ agenda includes “Medicare for All,” canceling student debt and reducing income inequality, and President Donald Trump has been eager to paint the Vermont senator and other Democrats as a threat to American prosperity and the U.S. stock market DJIA, -1.39%, even as it reels from the coronavirus outbreak.
“I think maybe Crazy Bernie has it,” Trump said about Sanders at a rally in North Charleston, S.C., after asking audience members to cheer for the Democrat they thought he could beat the easiest in November. Sanders has called Trump the most dangerous president in modern U.S. history.
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