Clinton wins decisively in SC on way to ‘Super Tuesday’

Bernie Sanders believes his campaign still has the momentum to win the Democratic presidential nomination despite being “decimated” by Hillary Clinton in the party’s SC primary.

A victory in Saturday’s poll would be an emotional boost for her White House campaign after an up-and-down start to the 2016 nominating contests, as well as a chance to wipe away the fraught memories of her 2008 primary loss in the state.

Clinton won the support of majorities of liberals, moderates and conservatives in Saturday’s contest. “We want to make sure that everybody knows that every vote is important”. “We are going to compete for every vote in every state; we are not taking anything or anyone for granted”.

Clinton aides and allies also worry that Trump’s unorthodox constituency of working-class white voters might allow him to put more states in play – particularly Midwestern swing states like OH and Wisconsin – compared to past nominees like Mitt Romney and John McCain.

Clinton also made it clear she was ready to incorporate much of Sanders’ populist, anti-Wall Street theme into her own campaign.

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

Starting her morning with stops at two Memphis churches, Clinton offered an implicit critique of Trump, issuing a call to unite the nation and asking worshippers to reject “the demagoguery, the prejudice, the paranoia”. “Tonight we lost”, he said.

“Sanders is hardly in the state at all this week”, Huffmon said. You know what? I don’t know.

Clinton even Sanders out among white voters.

This time around, Clyburn endorsed Clinton, and her husband was well-received as he travelled the state on her behalf.

Exit polls in sc showed African-American voters – who represented 61% of all Democratic voters in the primary – backed Clinton by a stunning 87%, against 13% for Sanders. Sanders is hoping to stay close to Clinton in the South while focusing most of his attention on states in the Midwest and Northeast, including his home state of Vermont. “The last thing I am is a con man”.

“Hillary is strong”, said Faust, who met Clinton when she came to her church two years ago and again on Clinton’s first campaign trip to the state when she held a roundtable for minority women business owners. “It’s a 50-state election and we’re feeling very confident, actually”, she said.

“On Super Tuesday the state that is going to be voting for the most delegates is the great state of Texas”, he said.

Marco Rubio is getting down and dirty. And Rubio was mocking Trump as a “con artist’ with “the worst spray tan in America”.

Trump, speaking in front of his private plane in Arkansas, belittled Rubio and accused the first-term US senator from Florida of being fresh. “I’m a con man, right?”

Hillary Clinton saw Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire blowout and raised him one in SC.

In her victory speech, Mrs Clinton aimed a dig at the man tipped to be the Republican presidential candidate.

“She has been in battles, she is one woman that can lead this country”, Major told AFP.

Trump also garnered backlash for retweeting a quote from Mussolini, which read: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep”.

Only three percent of delegates for July’s nominating convention in Philadelphia will have been awarded by Saturday’s end.

At the same time, Sanders is sure to do well in a handful of Super Tuesday states.

With the wind at her back, Clinton on Saturday night clearly had her eye on the general election.

Nonetheless, the great advantage the Palmetto State has shown over the other early-voting states to the north and west is its proven ability to influence the outcome of subsequent Southern primaries on Super Tuesday.