Sanders: We Got ‘Decimated’ In South Carolina

Sanders has 85 delegates and few immediate opportunities outside of Vermont to gain ground on Clinton. She hopes to use those results to run up the delegate count against Sanders.

It was a big win for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in SC on Saturday.

Clinton’s aides and top supporters have been amused by the food fight playing out on the Republican side of the aisle, where accusations of lying and misdeeds are common. Sanders won among voters between ages 18 and 29, and among white men. 43 percent of the electorate agreed race relations in this country had gotten worse; 71 percent of them voted for Hillary Clinton.

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During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Sanders acknowledged he was “decimated” by Clinton, who won by roughly 50 percentage points in SC.

Recognising his steep odds in South Carolina, Sanders had spent most of the past week in states that will vote in March.

Like Mrs Clinton, Mr Trump has won three of the four early voting contests. It was 40 per cent independents (same) and two-thirds liberal (same). All registered voters could vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary but not in both.

Over the weekend, top DNC official and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her DNC position to openly back Sanders. Plus, widdle away as many votes as he can from Southern states where Clinton is expected to do well. Hillary said as she dedicated her victory to parents, teachers and “the entrepreneur who told me more dreams die in the parking lots of banks than anywhere else”, particularly among women and minorities.

Sanders raised almost $95 million from over 3 million contributors between last April and January, a haul that has allowed him to match resources with Clinton, who raked in over $120 million during that same time period.

But Sanders needs to have his breakout moment sooner rather than later, warned longtime Democratic activist Phil Noble, who said that Sanders’ momentum in SC “fell off the table” after Clinton’s solid victory in Nevada on 20 February.

Georgia is demographically similar to SC and Alabama, and Clinton should expect to win here.

Questions about Clinton’s honesty have dogged her throughout the campaign and appeared to be a weakness in earlier contests.

“Tomorrow, this campaign goes national”, Clinton said. And while delegates in these contests are awarded proportionally – meaning Sanders won’t have to win in order to keep amassing them – the final tally of wins and losses matters more for him than it does for her.

Exit polls showed Clinton winning big in the state with nearly every constituency.

But Mrs Clinton and her supporters were elated, describing SC as a turning point in the campaign.

Three-quarters of voters said they want the next president to generally continue President Barack Obama’s policies, while just 2 in 10 want the next president’s policies to be more liberal.

It’s never a good sign when a candidate has to flatly say that he’s continuing in the race, as Sanders did in a statement on Saturday.