The keys to Joe Biden’s easy victory in South Carolina

The president of United States, Joe Bideneasily won the Democratic primary of South Carolina for the November elections, in which he will possibly compete with the Republican donald trump.

Biden81 years old, swept the South Carolina with 96.2% of the votes. The president only had two rivals: the congressman and businessman Dean Phillipswhich obtained 2.1% of the votes, and the author of self-help books Marianne Williamsonwhich gained 1.7%.

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Through a statement, Biden said South Carolina has put him back “on the path” to win the Presidency and make donald trump be a “loser” again.

“In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina “who proved the experts wrong, gave new life to our campaign and put us on the path to winning the presidency,” he said. Biden. “Now, in 2024, the people of South Carolina He has spoken again and I have no doubt that they have put us on the path to winning the presidency again and making Donald Trump a loser again.”

These are the keys to Biden’s victory:

The minority that Biden wants to maintain

This is the first time in 50 years that the Democratic Party begins its primaries in South Carolina.

“Hello South Carolina. If you ever doubt that the power to change America It is in your hands, you have proven it. You are the reason I am president. You are the reason why Kamala Harris She is a historic vice president. And you are the reason why donald trump He is a defeated former president. You are the reason why donald trump He is a loser. And you are the reason we are going to win and defeat him again,” Biden said in a speech before Saturday’s primary.

The Democratic electorate of South Carolina It is mainly made up of African American votersone of the backbones of the party.

26% of residents of South Carolina They are black. In the 2020 general election, African American voters made up 11% of the national electorate, and 9 in 10 of them supported Bidenaccording to AP VoteCast, a broad survey of voters in that election.

Why is South Carolina important to Biden?

In 2020, after losing the primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Biden won in South Carolina with twice as many votes as his closest rival, Bernie Sanders.

“South Carolina It was the first presidential primary or caucus that Biden won in his life after running for the Presidency three times, in 1998, 2008 and 2020, when his campaign started so badly in Iowa and New Hampshire. So North Carolina personally for Biden, the former senator and former vice president of Delaware, is a political home away from home for him,” Bill Barrow, journalist for The Associated Press, told El País.

Despite its symbolic value, Biden unlikely to win South Carolina in November electionbecause in the last 48 years that state has supported Republican candidates for the Presidency.

What was the level of assistance?

One of the challenges of Democrats in South Carolina was to ensure a participation similar to that of the primaries from four years ago.

But with the count almost complete, during election day 131,315 people voted in South Carolinawhich represents a decrease of 75% compared to 2020, when 539,263 participated, the EFE agency reported.

In 2020, Biden He competed with several top Democrats for the party’s nomination, while now he faces virtually no competition.

South Carolina assigned to Biden 55 delegates of the 2,000 he will need to officially proclaim himself as the Democratic candidate for the November elections.

Now comes Nevada

This Tuesday will be the turn of Snowfallthe second state where Democrats will vote in their primaries.

In Snowfall 22% of voters are Latino, according to the Pew Center. Biden He campaigned this Sunday in Las Vegas, where a large part of Hispanics live.

In 2020, Biden surpassed trump in Snowfall by just 2.4 percentage points. While in 2016, then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton also won in Snowfall against Trump by a narrow margin.