BIDEN WINS FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN SOUTH CAROLINA
US President Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, giving him the kind of emphatic result he no doubt envisioned when he made the state the first contest on the Democrat's presidential nominating calendar, The New York Times reported.
The leading US daily reported that Biden won an overwhelming majority of South Carolina Democrats, more than 96 per cent with 80 per cent of the vote counted, dominating every county with more than 95 per cent of the vote, including in heavily Black areas.
President Biden vowed that South Carolina would once again send him to the White House. "The people of South Carolina have spoken again, and I have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the presidency again – and making Donald Trump a loser again," the president said in a statement released by his campaign.
His campaign had wanted South Carolina to prove that the party's base, particularly Black voters, remained devoted to Biden and would turn out for him in large numbers.
Biden hits out at Trump
During a rally at his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, near his family home, United States President Joe Biden slammed former
President Donald Trump, alleging the GOP front-runner "stands for nothing," as reported by The Hill. Biden's condemnation of the past president, whom he did not identify, came during a Saturday speech in Wilmington.
"I'm feeling good about where we are; I really am," Biden said, adding, "You know, folks are starting to focus in, and the guy we're running against, he is--he's not for anything; he's against everything." "And no, I mean it, it's the weirdest campaign I've ever been engaged in, it's even worse in terms of his behaviour than the last time in 2020," Biden went on to say.
Reiterating his statement, Biden said that Americans recognise the significance of the next general election.
"I meant what I said back when we announced the first time for president against this guy, and we went up to Independence Hall and made a speech on democracy, and the press thought it was a bit of an exaggeration,” he added.