President Biden won the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday.
Biden was expected to win the Palmetto State, which has 55 delegates, as the incumbent president seeks to formalize his party’s nomination later this year ahead of November’s presidential election.
He easily defeated long-shot challengers Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).
“In 2020, South Carolina voters proved the experts wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and put us on the path to winning the presidency,” Biden said in a statement after his victory. It was,” he said.
South Carolina was scheduled to hold its first primary of this election cycle after Democrats voted to replace Iowa as the first state to contest the presidential nomination.
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In 2022, the DNC voted to move the nation’s first primary to South Carolina on February 3, but New Hampshire’s state law requires it to hold its primary at least a week earlier than other states. Because of this, I did not respond to this request.
Biden won New Hampshire’s Democratic primary on January 23, even though his name was not on the ballot and his supporters wrote their names.
The calendar change, made at Biden’s request, comes after the president underperformed in the 2020 Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in South Carolina, where he received strong support from Black voters. It was done to give the president momentum after his major victory. CNN reported.
“When I was elected president, I said the days of the backbone of the Democratic Party being the rear guard were over. That was a promise, and a promise kept. Now, you’re America’s No. 1,” Biden said. said.
The Iowa caucuses are the first to be held in the nation since 1972, and New Hampshire has led the way in the primary election calendar since 1920.
Republicans have followed the traditional order of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
South Carolina’s Republican primary will be held on February 24th, with former President Donald Trump aiming to maintain his winning streak and defeat former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in his home state.
Opinion polls in the country currently show Trump leading Haley by 26%.
Biden needs 1,968 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. The next primary election will be held in Nevada on Tuesday, February 6th.
