Sanders’ Super Tuesday focus evident in travel outside South

Jay Smith, a retired African American, came to the polls in Columbia on Saturday with her son Roy and young grandson.

Sanders took a jab at the former secretary of state, saying that she supported former President Bill Clinton’s overhaul of the nation’s welfare system when she was first lady.

With African-American voters making up nearly 28 percent of the SC population – compared to just 1.5 percent in New Hampshire where Sanders has scored his only victory so far – Clinton leads overwhelmingly among members of that voting bloc who are over the age of 45, with 78 percent in a February 18 NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. But Sanders built a strong ground game in SC and began to invest time in the state and steadily closed the gap to the low 20s in polls conducted in the last two weeks.

Among early voters in South Carolina, Alicia Newman, a 31-year-old elementary school teacher from Greenville, said she was torn but ultimately went for Clinton.

While Sanders has a 14 percent level of support from voters surveyed, 22 percent of the survey participants respondents said they were still undecided.

Voters cast their ballots in the South Carolina Democratic primary at a polling place at Sanders Mid …

US Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton (R) confers with fellow candidate Bernie Sanders during a break in the Democratic Presidential Debate hosted by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on December 19, 2015.

Clinton’s supports hoped that SC would seal her position as the Democratic frontrunner. Bernie Sanders will be SC voters’ choice as the best candidate to maintain Democrat control of the White House.

In her rally, the 68-year-old Clinton targeted Sanders, accusing him of having voted in the past in favor of a loophole that eventually allowed the church shooter to obtain a firearm.

While Trump has logged repeated big wins, neither of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination can say the same.

So who got Terry’s vote in the state’s Democratic primary on Saturday? Either Clinton or her husband Bill have come to South Florida for multiple fundraisers, and she held a public event at Broward College in October.

Democrats will vote in 11 states and American Samoa, with 865 delegates up for grabs on Tuesday.

“I am not a candidate for the third term, but I think they did a good job in America, it would be silly not to be inspired”, said Hillary Clinton.

Most polls indicate Hillary Clinton has a sizeable lead heading into the primary, but she wasn’t taking any chances.

If Sanders can set himself on a path to wake up the morning of March 16 still within striking distance, it’ll be a major success, just as the campaign heads west to states he’s more likely to win.

“We’re reaching out to people all across the state”, said Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the campaign.

According to exit polls, black voters made up 55 percent of the electorate in the 2008 primary.

In the days leading up to the primary, Clinton is highlighting her stance on gun control, a crucial issue in a state that saw a mass shooting in Charleston last June.

“It’s significant because African-Americans play such an important part of the coalition in the Democratic Party, probably one of the most loyal constituencies in the Democratic Party”, Harrison said.