- Former vice-president scores much-needed primary victory
- Biden tells cheering supporters: ‘We just won and we won big’
- Follow the latest results in our live South Carolina tracker
Political reporters weigh in on tonight’s results: there’s no question that Joe Biden’s decisive victory in South Carolina has given his campaign a much-needed shot in the arm.
But the question now is whether that victory will translate to momentum for Super Tuesday, when 14 states will vote:
Biden reality talk, more.3. Biden collapsed in the only two swing states to vote yet. (IA, NH)4. Biden has done better the farther we’ve gotten from impeachment (and Hunter Biden talk). Expect GOP/Trump to ramp that back up. 2/
I tweeted this a 1000x but a massively impt turning pt in this primary was Iowa and New Hampshire landing on “Biden alternatives” that had no traction among black Dems, the base of ideological moderates in Dem electorate
Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio seem like they are going to be really important in the coming weeks, although of course if they end up being close, the delegate math basically becomes a wash. Biden being able to win white votes in the North is his big challenge
Joe Biden appears to have surpassed Bernie Sanders in the primary-wide popular vote thanks to his large victory in South Carolina.
With 59% of SC in, Biden has now passed Sanders in the national popular vote: pic.twitter.com/G7QnYbQ2ZW
South Carolina has about 70% of the vote in. CNN’s current Democratic national delegate estimate is: Sanders 53Biden 41Buttigieg 26Warren 8Klobuchar 7
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Source: Elections - theguardian.com
