Huge win for Clinton in SC

Clinton zigzagged across the Palmetto State in an effort to win young and African American voters.

With almost half of the votes counted in South Carolina, Clinton led Sanders by a 50-point margin, dramatically reversing her 28-point loss in the state to President Barack Obama during their bitter 2008 primary battle. She won the support of 89 percent of black women voting in SC. If he loses blacks by similar margins in the Southern states that vote Tuesday, Clinton would likely take a delegate lead hard for the Vermont senator to overcome.

“Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers”, Clinton said.

If the results in SC extrapolate to other states in the South on Super Tuesday, Clinton can expect to run the tables in the “SEC primary”.

Now that the Nevada caucuses and SC primary have delivered Clinton huge victories against her rival, those predictions appear to be right.

As if already looking past SC, which had for months heavily favored Clinton, Sanders addressed big crowds at two rallies in Texas on Saturday.

“The leaders who set large goals are the ones who get those goals accomplished”, said Dina Johnson, at the Sanders rally Saturday.

Now the campaign goes nationwide for Super Tuesday where 11 states such as Texas, Georgia, and Virginia head to the polls to select their candidate.

In the South Carolina Republican primary, Donald Trump took the state with 32.5 percent of the vote, followed by Marco Rubio with 22.5 percent, and Ted Cruz at 22.3 percent.

“There is only one candidate that has to win SC and it is not Bernie Sanders”, said SC state Rep. Justin Bamberg, a Sanders supporter, on Saturday.

On Saturday evening, Hillary Clinton scored a resounding victory over Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina Democratic primary.

There was plenty to look out for when it came to the SC primary, especially after their rousing debate in the state the week prior. Both are groups that political experts say Sanders and Clinton must go after.

“Tonight we lost. I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her very strong victory”.

The South Carolina primary was never considered a tight race.

Though Clinton’s win was expected, it still doesn’t make for easy brushing off by the Sanders campaign: Black voters’ support is essential to securing the Democratic nomination, and the SC results show little sign of major inroads being made by the Sanders campaign into black communities.

With an insurmountable deficit, Sanders spent much less time than Clinton in SC last week.

The first four contests give Clinton three wins and one lopsided loss.

“I am a 100 percent supporter and I am absolutely adamant about protecting marriage equality”, she said. About 7 in 10 said they wanted the next president to continue Obama’s policies, and only about 20 percent wanted a more liberal course of action, according to exit polls conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks. Bernie Sanders has gained at least 12.