Clinton's huge SC win

Feb 28, 2016, 16:57

Hillary Clinton dealt Bernie Sanders a bruising defeat in South Carolina's Democratic primary Saturday, with early returns showing her crushing the insurgent senator by a 3-to-1 margin.

"We are going to compete for every vote in every state, we are not taking anything or anyone for granted", Clinton said. U.S. networks called the race for Clinton moments after polls closed in the Palmetto State, where the majority of Democratic voters are African-American, a voting bloc that she has successfully courted for decades.

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.

Exit polls showed 6 in 10 voters in the primary were black, by far the largest proportion in any of the contests so far.

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"Thank you. Thank you". That is likely because Obama also attracted white voters in 2008, who may have voted Republican this time around, voting trends suggest. Sanders said on Saturday that his "grassroots political revolution" was growing "state by state".

While Sanders has the money to stay in the race deep into the spring, Clinton's campaign saw a chance to build enough of a delegate lead to put the race out of reach in the coming weeks.

In a statement to the press while on his way from Texas to Minnesota, Sanders said it was still early and that Clinton's big win matched his blowout in New Hampshire, telling reporters after he landed that he expected to get "lots of delegates on Tuesday". Recent national polls have shown Clinton leading Sanders by a slim margin among Democratic voters.

Instead of speaking in South Carolina, Sanders was en route to Rochester, Minnesota for a campaign rally. "Now it's on to Super Tuesday", said the self-described democratic socialist.

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By winning South Carolina, Clinton has won two contests in a row.

"The South Carolina primary is personally important to me because I want to send a strong signal that South Carolina is ready for change, ready for progress, ready to make a difference, " Mrs Clinton, 68, told a rally in the state capital Columbia on Friday. He pledges "to win many, many of them". One possibility is that the efforts of the Democratic Party, under the leadership of Mr. Obama, to register more black voters in states like SC is continuing to pay dividends, even without Mr. Obama on the ticket.

As on the Republican side, Texas will be considered a huge prize on Tuesday, but Sanders also is looking to potentially more friendly territory in the Midwest and Northeast, including his home state.

At Clinton's crowded headquarters in Columbia earlier Saturday, a sign addressed Sanders' appeal to liberals and working class whites. "We are not taking anything, and we're not taking anyone for granted", she said.

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Thirty-five are awarded proportionally based on the results in each of the state's seven congressional districts, and 18 others are decided proportionally by the statewide outcome.