Biden easily wins South Carolina primary, first date on Democratic election calendar usa elections

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, easily won this Saturday the Democratic primary in South Carolina, a state with a significant African-American electorate that allowed him to save his then-untenable candidacy for the White House in 2020. The current president has defeated the two best co-religionists on the ballot: Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota and self-help book author Marianne Williamson.

“In 2020, it was South Carolina voters who proved the experts wrong, breathing new life into our campaign and putting us on a path to winning the presidency,” the candidate said in a statement. “Now, in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken again, and I have no doubt that you have put us on a path to winning the presidency again and making Donald Trump a loser again.”

His personal bet on having the first date of the party’s primary in South Carolina, overwhelmingly white, was presented by him to the Democratic Party, citing the greater racial diversity of the state’s population compared to the more traditional states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Worth all the efforts. National Committee, the first of which amended the electoral calendar, moving the race from fourth place to first place in that state. South Carolina is a red state, but 26% of its residents are black. In the 2020 general election, Black voters represented 11% of the national electorate, and 9 in 10 of them supported Biden.

Today marks the beginning of the Democratic campaign for the elections to be held on November 5. However, Biden had already won important victories such as New Hampshire, where, despite his name not appearing on the ballots, he obtained 64% of the votes, as he reminded journalists at Delaware Airfield this Saturday, Who had done a work. Traveled to Los Angeles and Las Vegas to attend campaign events.

African-American voters are key to his chances in November against Republican Donald Trump, who is leading in many voting intention surveys. But being discouraging has never been Biden’s forte, and this Saturday he once again deflated his people with gusto, once again describing the presidential election as a battle for the survival of democracy. Biden has attacked the behavior of Trump, who he said has continued to degrade himself. “The man we are running against is good for nothing. “He’s against everything,” he said in Delaware, hours before South Carolina’s results were released.

Biden has expressed his belief that as Americans begin to pay attention to the upcoming elections, the contrast between him and Trump will help his candidacy. “People are starting to focus,” he said, citing a recent Quinnipiac University poll that shows him six points ahead of Trump, although other polls give the Republican a clear advantage. Biden also cited two surveys from Pennsylvania that show him having an advantage in that state.

The optimism of Biden, whose rallies are being disrupted almost without exception by pro-Palestinian protesters who rebuke him for his support for Israel — it happened again this Saturday in Bel Air, where large Palestinian flags With six vehicles welcoming his delegation – , this is largely due to the victory in New Hampshire. “By the way, we weren’t on the ballot in New Hampshire. We could not campaign there. But guess what: we got 64%,” he recalled telling journalists with satisfaction.

“Friends, we have a lot at stake. We have a huge responsibility,” he said of his electoral and even existential dispute with Republican Trump, from a political perspective. “This is not just a campaign. It’s more than a mission. We cannot lose for the good of the country, we cannot lose. And I say this from the bottom of my heart. “It’s not about me, it goes way beyond me.”

Despite the candidate’s optimism and the positive surveys he used, the polls published this Friday by CNN confirm the trend seen in recent months: a minimal but steady advantage for Trump, with 49% support, versus 45%. With on Biden. Although the improvement in the economy may be in the Democrat’s favor, the truth is that he has not been able to take advantage of the improvement in his percentage of support. His immigration and foreign policies show the worst prospects, with the former having the lowest approval rate (only 30%). His stance on a war between Israel and Hamas, which risks costing him many votes among young Democratic voters and African-American voters in states like Michigan, is based on this fact, according to a CNN survey. 37% believe the United States is doing the right thing, while 33% believe it is going too far in its support of Israel.

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