Hillary Clinton: ‘Tomorrow, this campaign goes national’

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His wife, Jane, said he had suffered from lack of media coverage during the early part of the campaign. Bernie Sanders leaves with neither momentum nor math on his side, and without a clear path to capturing the nomination.

Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, notching a decisive win in a state where she suffered a devastating loss just eight years ago.

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

“Today you sent a message in America when we stand together there is no barrier too big to break”, Clinton declared in her victory speech in Columbia, S.C. “Tomorrow this campaign goes national. We are not taking anything and we are not taking anyone for granted”, she says.

Mr. Sanders closed a huge gap in SC, but he rarely got closer than 20 points to catching Mrs. Clinton.

As he arrived in Rochester, Minnesota, he said “sometimes you win, sometimes you lose”.

The win for Clinton is huge heading into Super Tuesday, March 1, where several states will hold primary elections.

During her victory speech Saturday, Clinton made a subtle swipe at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

The primary reflected a strength among black voters, who make up more than half of the party’s primary electorate in SC. Notably, though Sanders did not win a majority of young black voters, he won more of their support than that of their older counterparts. She also has a massive lead over Sanders among superdelegates, the Democratic Party leaders who can throw their support behind a candidate of their choice, regardless of how their states vote.

A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders has energized his supporters with impassioned calls for breaking up Wall Street banks and making tuition free at public colleges and universities. With 30 percent of precincts reporting in the state, Clinton led Vermont Sen. SC was the first state of the 2016 primary season with a significant African-American population. Clinton did especially well among black women voters, winning 89 percent of their support compared to Sanders’s 11.

The result is a far cry from Sanders’ last primary race in SC when Clinton lost to Barack Obama in a dominating result. Clinton even did better than Obama, who had received 78% of the black votes.

Sanders played down Clinton’s overwhelming victory by pointing to his own in New Hampshire and warned against divisiveness propagated by Trump.

Sanders, who campaigned in SC and has tried to make inroads with black voters, nevertheless has turned his attention in recent days to other states that vote on Tuesday.