Biden’s South Carolina Firewall Holds But Sanders Still Strong
- State is first with large black electorate to vote in 2020
- Sanders holds national lead, but rivals see path to nomination
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Joe Biden’s dominating win in the South Carolina presidential primary gives him a much-needed springboard into Super Tuesday, but with three days to go, there’s still a question whether that will be enough to slow Bernie Sanders’s momentum.
With most precincts reporting, Biden had 48.6% of the vote to Sanders’s 20%. That result assures Biden the lion’s share of the delegates in the largest and most diverse state on the Democratic calendar to date.