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The 2020 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary took place on February 29, 2020, and was the fourth nominating contest in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The South Carolina primary was an open primary and awarded 64 delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention , of which 54 were pledged ...
Democratic primaries and caucuses in early states yielded a controversial and disputed victory for Pete Buttigieg in the Iowa caucuses, a narrow victory for Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primary over Buttigieg, a victory for Sanders in the Nevada caucuses, and a victory for Joe Biden in the South Carolina primary. Sanders won the popular ...
Biden, whose campaign fortunes had suffered from losses in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, made a comeback by overwhelmingly winning the South Carolina primary, motivated by strong support from African American voters, an endorsement from South Carolina U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn, as well as Democratic establishment concerns about ...
At a dinner on Jan. 29 to celebrate the state’s “first-in-the-nation” Democratic primary, Biden told a crowd of SC Democrats that the state was critical to his 2020 election win. South ...
Biden was highly favored against others as he faced an easy win in the state, in a race that kicks off his party's nominating process.
In the 2020 South Carolina Democratic primary, Biden collected 48.4% of the vote (39 delegates) while U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) collected 19.9% of the vote (15 delegates.)
Trump carried South Carolina by a margin of 11.68%, down from his 14.27% margin four years earlier. Prior to this election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Trump would win, or a red state. South Carolina was the only East Coast state in 2020 to vote Republican by a double-digit margin. [3]
Biden’s 2020 campaign was on the verge of unraveling ahead of South Carolina’s primary that February. He had lost badly in the two preceding contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.