Biden’s black voter victory

AN outpouring of black voter support propelled Joe Biden to a convincing victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Saturday.

It resurrected his faltering White House bid, giving the former vice president a chance to claim he is the moderate alternative to frontrunner Bernie Sanders.

The win gives Biden a burst of momentum as the Democratic race to find a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump broadens quickly, with Super Tuesday primaries in 14 states in three days that will award one-third of the available national delegates.

With 85% of the precincts reporting, Biden had 49% of the vote and US Senator Sanders of Vermont was a distant second with 20%, official state results revealed.

Billionaire activist Tom Steyer had 11% and all of the other contenders

HOPEFUL Joe Biden were well behind with single digits. After the vote count rolled in, Steyer, who had been spending heavily in South Carolina to court African-american voters, ended his presidential bid on Saturday as it emerged he was coming in a distant third.

Exit polls conducted by Edison Research showed the former vice president with 64% of African-american support to Sanders’ 15%.

This is Biden’s third run at the White House.