Black voters lead Clinton to resounding victory

Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, notching a decisive win in a state where she suffered a devastating loss just eight years ago.

A decisive victory in SC gives Clinton momentum heading into Tuesday’s important slate of primary contests, where voters in more than a dozen states will go to the polls and 865 delegates are up for grabs. Democrats looking for a candidate who cares about people like them or one who is honest and trustworthy overwhelmingly supported Sanders in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. Clinton won the Nevada caucuses decisively earlier this week by five percentage points. “Clinton’s a woman who has always focused on issues important to women, so it’s no surprise she’s doing well among them”, Sanderoff said.

Sanders won New Hampshire with strong support of white voters, who made up 93% of the electorate there.

Sanders congratulated Clinton in a statement, but cast an eye toward the bigger contest in just three days. Super Tuesday could turn out to be a very bad day for the Sanders campaign if the polling numbers turn out to be correct. It was a battle between Sanders’s abstraction and Clinton’s specificity.

The Texas senator wants backers “to vote for me 10 times”, but he is not suggesting voter fraud.

Although he wasn’t in South Carolina Saturday, his campaign organized several watch parties across South Carolina to view the returns – one of which was here at Pearlz Oyster Bar in downtown Columbia.

In South Carolina, Clinton captured nearly 90% of black voters, a stunning number that surpassed even then-Sen. Barack Obama was on the ballot. Bernie Sanders of Vermont bested her among men and young people. “So of course the South didn’t know him”. Clinton made a significant investment in the state, appealing in particular to African American women with her campaign’s “barber shop” strategy. She’s seen as that authentic, strong leader and these voters talk about how they feel like they have a duty to support her.

The poll surveyed 401 New Mexico Democrats who are likely to vote in the state’s June 7 primary election. She held town halls on “breaking down barriers” for blacks, carpeted the state with ads and deployed both her daughter, Chelsea, and husband, former president Bill Clinton. Super Tuesday will take place on March 1st. “We need to show, by everything we do, that we really are in this together”, Clinton said. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally in Columbia, S.C., Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. So, though SC doesn’t mathematically doom Sanders in terms of delegates, and though it’s too early to doomsay over Super Tuesday, it might be time to think about what Sanders’s political revolution will become in the event that his candidacy fails. Clinton promised supporters to not take lightly her road ahead toward being the party’s nominee. He said he “won’t stop now”. “But we do need to make America whole again”.

“Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again”, Clinton crowed.

Eleven states, including six in the South with large minority populations where polls show Clinton with big leads, will vote in the Democratic nomination fight on Super Tuesday and four more over the next weekend.

“Voters in SC black and white, Latino and Hispanics…they care about economic equality…they care about jobs…they care about investing in communities…they care about keeping their communities safe…they care about healthcare…That is the crux of Senator Sanders message, ” said National Press Secretary Symone Sanders.