The President of the United States, Joe Biden, won the Democratic primary in South Carolina this Saturday for the November presidential electionin which he hopes to make his possible Republican rival Donald Trump a “loser.”
According to US media projections, the 81-year-old president has made a good start towards his party’s nomination.
South Carolina, thank you for everything. pic.twitter.com/AaPEHljet9
– Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 4, 2024
His overwhelming victory against two little-known rivals is no surprise to Democrats instead will examine the results of the vote to determine whether Biden won significant support among the African American electorate. If this is not the case, you have every reason to worry.
Although South Carolina is expected to remain in Republican hands in November, as it has since 1980, Biden considers that a good gauge of his support among black voters.
This electorate was the key to his election victory four years agoespecially in South Carolina, where they gave way to him by promoting a campaign that failed to gain traction.
“Now, in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken again, and I have no doubt that they have put us on the path to winning the presidency again and making Donald Trump the loser again,” Biden said in an explanation.
The other “guy”
hours before during a visit to his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, DelawareTogether with Vice President Kamala Harris, he has already criticized Trump: “The guy we are running against is for nothing. He’s against everything.”
Biden had only two opponents in the primary: Congressman Dean Phillips, who made his fortune with an ice cream company, and self-help author Marianne Williamson.
Who are the other two candidates? “I haven’t even looked,” 69-year-old retiree Jane Douglas joked as she left a school in the historic city of Charleston.
But the turnout is worrying. Only a few voters went to the polling stations visited in Charleston, where many took their victory for granted.
Biden encouraged them to vote in a video on social network X, saying: “South Carolina, go vote today!”
This Saturday he was not in South Carolina, where Democrats have mounted a major campaign effort, with two visits by Biden this year, including to a church in Charleston where a racist killed nine parishioners in 2015.
Several recent polls show his support among African-American voters is declining.especially among young people, frustrated that he was neglecting their priorities even though they had supported him four years ago.
But other polls give him an advantage over Trump or tied with him. This is despite exceeding the minimum requirements for a sitting president, something unprecedented in decades.
“I think he did his best,” said Annette Hamilton, 63, as she voted at a church north of Charleston. Will Biden win in November? “I pray to God he does.”
The February 24 Republican primary in South Carolina promises to be getting closer. Trump will try to deliver a coup de grace to the state’s former governor and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.
Before that, on February 6, Democrats will hold primaries in Nevada, a state that is nearly 30 percent Hispanic.
Biden already won an unofficial primary in New Hampshire, although he was not on the ballot and voters had to handwrite his name.
Traditional The Democratic primaries begin in this northeastern statewhere the majority of the population is white, and not in South Carolina, but this year it is different at the initiative of Biden, who wanted to start in a state with 23 percent African Americans.
With information from AFP.
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