The Democratic nomination contest saw a significant shift in South Carolina on Saturday, February 29. Former Vice President Joe Biden not only won an indispensable victory after a catastrophic start, he has indeed widened so far from his rivals that he can hope to regain his rank before the first votes: that of favorite.
Everything was gathered in South Carolina for a start. Joe Biden had announced in advance that he was counting on the African-American community, the majority in this southern state, to reverse the trend. According to the results of exit polls, the support of House of Representatives number three, Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina figure, was instrumental. Invariably in the lead in voting intentions, the former president, however, widened a gap that no one had anticipated.
In a favorable situation before Super Tuesday
With more than 48% of the vote, the former vice-president literally crushed independent senator Bernie Sanders, who came in second with only 20% of the vote. The billionaire philanthropist, Tom Steyer, in spite of an investment of more than 13 million dollars, arrived in third position (11.4%), however under the bar of 15% allowing to pretend to a part of the delegates put in Thu. Three other candidates present during the last debate, on February 25, were even further behind.
The magnitude of the victory, the first in a primary of a long career punctuated by two unsuccessful nominations, in 1988 and 2008, transfigured Joe Biden. Laborious during the debates, always quick to blunders or slips, the former vice-president for once knew how to find the words to mobilize his troops, posing as a lifelong democrat, a proud democrat, an Obama-Biden democrat ". A clear allusion to the independent senator from Vermont, and the billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a former Republican, who did not appear on the ballots of South Carolina. " Most Americans Don't Want The Promise Of A Revolution "Announced by the senator," they want results In their daily lives, he added.
This jump puts the former vice-president in a favorable situation before the "super-Tuesday" (Super Tuesday) during which fourteen states will vote. He can hope to benefit from the African American vote where he will be significant like Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas or Virginia.
