Hillary Clinton just called out Donald Trump in a triumphant victory speech

Still, the Palmetto State victory is an important one for Clinton and gives her a boost of momentum heading into Super Tuesday.

Clinton struggled in the past with support from the African-American voters, but with her endoresement of President Barack Obama, those days are very long gone at the moment.

Hillary Clinton threw in subtle shots at Donald Trump in a victory speech amid a blowout win in the SC primary Saturday.

The defection stung. “In her last campaign, the state shattered Mrs. Clinton’s hopes and frayed the relationship she and Bill Clinton had with black voters, dealing Mr. Obama a 28-percentage-point victory and convincing the country that his appeal extended beyond the largely white, liberal electorate of Iowa”, Amy Chozick writes in the New York Times.

A win would also underline her credentials as firm favourite among black voters, an important part of the electorate in the predominantly southern states that go to the polls on Tuesday. “We’re taking truth to the American People”. Senior Sanders strategist Tad Devine admitted recently that the narrow losses in Iowa and Nevada loss may made Sanders’ path to victory more hard.

Clinton defeated Sanders by a 74-26 margin.

Early exit polls showed that about 61 percent of voters in Saturday’s primary identified as black, with only about 35 percent saying they were white, according to NBC News. She held an emotional event in SC with black mothers whose children died in shootings.

On the Republican side, voters will cast ballots in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake on Super Tuesday. Most of the coverage I’ve seen has suggested that, sure, Hillary is going to win, but she’s really being pressed in the black community and Bernie could do better than expected.

“We have now gone through four early states and I want to congratulate Bernie sanders on running a great race”, Clinton said. Trump has been leading his Republican rivals, based on polls, and looks to take over delegates in some key states next week.

Sanders, expecting defeat on Saturday, left SC even before voting finished and turned his attention to some of the states that vote in next Tuesday’s delegate-rich contests. Sanders in particular has had to retool his platform so that it spoke to racial injustice directly, rather than just under the umbrella of economic inequality, the topic that has animated his campaign. But after several minutes she found her rhythm, repeating the line she has lived on in recent days – her solidarity with the man who beat her in this primary eight years ago. Forty-six percent of Democratic primary voters say that race relations have gotten worse, including 45 percent of blacks and 48 percent of whites.

While Sanders has the money to stay in the race deep into the spring, Clinton’s campaign sees a chance to build enough of a delegate lead to put the race out of reach during the sprint through March.

Mrs. Clinton shored up support of liberal voters by making gun-control a mainstay of her agenda, as well as highlighting Mr. Sanders mixed record on the issue as a senator from gun-loving Vermont.

The primary also comes just a day after the State Department released its penultimate batch of Clinton emails from her private server. In each case, they are more numerous than in Nevada, where they propelled Clinton’s caucus win on February 20.

At the time of publication, Clinton had won SC by an overwhelming 77 percent compared to Sanders’ 23 percent.