Clinton eyes big win in S. Carolina; Sanders shifts focus

Those delegates, elites in the Democratic Party including former and current presidents as well as members of Congress, boost Clinton’s delegate count to 505 over Sanders’ 71 so far.

Multiple news outlets are reporting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has handidly won the state of SC over her rival, Vermont Sen.

The local Clinton campaign has 25 volunteers ready to go, she said.

Although Clinton had retained a solid lead against Sanders in the state and was expected to win, in a thus-far unprecedented presidential race, nothing could be kept off of the table. “Instead of building walls we need to be tearing down barriers”.

As returns suggested a landslide victory for Clinton in SC, some observers said the win forecast similar results on Super Tuesday, as the Democratic electorate is much more racially diverse in the participating states.

She said Sanders “deals with structural issues rather than talking points” on education and other issues.

“It would be a super send-off to do well here”, Mrs Clinton told several hundred people, a lot of them African-Americans, who gathered on Friday in Orangeburg.

Early exit polls showed 7 in 10 voters want the next president to continue Obama’s policies, according to the Associated Press.

Hillary Clinton’s victory in Saturday’s SC primary is hard to overstate.

During a raucous victory rally, Clinton reveled in her sweeping support but pivoted quickly to the contests to come.

“I was so proud of President Obama and I hate see him leave”, she said Saturday morning as she exited Memminger Elementary School, a polling location near this city’s central core.

But Whitmire says that doesn’t mean a record overall turnout, because the number of absentee votes cast in all SC elections has been increasing rapidly in recent years. Sanders says his “grassroots political revolution is growing state by state”, and he “won’t stop now”.

We’re going to work together to give our children the education they need and deserve here in SC and across America.

Hillary Clinton is on pace to pile up a big margin of victory in SC, as she was quickly declared the victor of first Southern Democratic primary.

But even Sanders supporters noted Clinton’s narrow wins in those two states may have stymied any “momentum” the campaign wanted to gain heading into Super Tuesday, when more than 10 states will vote. She celebrated at a rowdy victory rally in the state.

Clinton is stopping in Alabama on Saturday before heading to Columbia, the SC capital, for an election party. Clinton won the Nevada caucuses decisively earlier this week by five percentage points. Clinton additionally vowed, “Tomorrow, this campaign goes national”.

SC has 53 delegates at stake.

This year though, influential black lawmakers have fallen behind Clinton, including South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, who did not endorse any candidates in 2008.