Former Vice President Joe Biden took a commanding lead in the Democratic primaries this weekend, earning nearly half of South Carolina’s votes, according to the AP.
“We are very much alive,” Biden said in a post-election rally. “For all of you who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind—this is your campaign.”
Biden had been struggling to gain traction in the primaries. With a lack of funding and staffers, the 77-year-old candidate limped through Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada’s votes. But South Carolina’s win surges him forward and earned him an endorsement from former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.
The black vote carried Biden largely to victory. He won 63 percent of their votes. Older voters, women, moderates, conservatives, and regular churchgoers also cast a vote for him.
AP VoteCast polled several South Carolina voters and found that 45 percent of them want to “return to the politics of the past.” And half of African American voters hope a Democratic president would model the Obama presidency.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders took second place in the state with 19 percent of voters and 14 percent of African American voters.
“That will not be the only defeat,” Sanders said while campaigning in Virginia. “A lot of states in this country. Nobody wins them all. Now we enter Super Tuesday.”
The defeat, however, marked the end for two candidates. Billionaire…
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