Biden Wins His First Main in South Carolina, The place His 2020 Victory Started

President Biden gained the South Carolina main on Saturday, giving him the type of emphatic consequence he little question envisioned when he made the state the primary contest on the Democrats’ presidential nominating calendar.

The election, referred to as by The Related Press shortly after polls closed, offers Mr. Biden the primary set of delegates required to say the Democratic nomination on the social gathering’s conference in August.

Mr. Biden vowed that South Carolina would as soon as once more ship him to the White Home.

“The folks of South Carolina have spoken once more, and I’ve little question that you’ve set us on the trail to successful the presidency once more — and making Donald Trump a loser once more,” the president stated in a press release launched by his marketing campaign.

Mr. Biden gained an awesome majority of South Carolina Democrats, greater than 96 p.c with 80 p.c of the vote counted — dominating each county with greater than 95 p.c of the vote, together with in closely Black areas.

His marketing campaign had wished South Carolina to show that the social gathering’s base — significantly Black voters — stay dedicated to Mr. Biden and would prove for him in massive numbers. The state’s open main system means voters are free to decide on which main to vote in, and the stakes are far greater within the Republican contest pitting Mr. Trump towards Nikki Haley, the previous South Carolina governor — and there had been some concern from social gathering officers about voters waiting to participate in that contest on Feb. 24 as a substitute.

Black voters are vital to Mr. Biden’s success in battleground states, however transposing South Carolina’s leads to February to November voting in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia is a difficult proposition, on condition that Saturday’s main was seen by most observers — accurately, because it turned out — as noncompetitive.