Clinton cruises to big win over Sanders in SC

Hillary Clinton was projected the victor of the Democratic primary in SC on Saturday.

Aspiring first lady Jane Sanders said her husband’s campaign was ready for the March 2 matchup where “I think we’ll split the vote”.

“It’s Hillary’s turn now”, she said.

Sanders knows his prospects with South Carolina’s heavily black Democratic electorate are grim. Clinton won the Nevada caucuses decisively earlier this week by five percentage points.

“My daughter who is a college student at Winthrop University, she went back and fourth too and she wouldn’t tell me who she voted for, and she ended up voting for Bernie, and I’m here tonight for Hillary, so that’s OK”, Davis said. “Our grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won’t stop now”.

With 49 percent of the vote counted, Clinton received 74.4 percent of the overall support, compared to Sanders’ 24.9 percent, reports the television news outlet.

“Because we can do the long game, once we get past March 1, the calendar changes dramatically”, said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager.

More than half of voters said they trust only Clinton – not Sanders – to handle an global crisis, while another third of voters said they trust both of them. The state also was expected to affirm her strength with black voters, who are expected to be a key voting block if she is to win the nomination.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Saturday that the Democratic presidential primary campaign is far from over despite several recent state losses. Bernie Sanders, 58 percent to 31 percent, among likely Democratic voters.

There are 865 Democratic delegates up for grabs in the Super Tuesday contests in 11 states and American Samoa. The first was a near-tie in Iowa, where neither Clinton nor Sanders managed to muster more than 50 percent of the vote. “I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her very strong victory”.

“Well, we’re going to start by working together with more love and kindness in our hearts and more respect for each other, even when we disagree”.

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.

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Eleven states, including six in the South with large minority populations where polls show Clinton with big leads, will vote on Super Tuesday and four more over the next weekend. Seventy percent of voters said the next president should “generally continue Obama’s policies”, and that number increases to almost 90% among black voters. Even on Friday, the last full day of campaigning before South Carolina’s polls open, Sanders began with a rally in Minnesota before heading south for a pair of events.