On Saturday, the president will win his first formal primary of the 2024 campaign in South Carolina, the state that propelled Joe Biden to the Democratic nominee four years prior, according to CNN projections.
As he secures his first delegates in the pursuit of his party’s nomination once more, Biden will overcome his two closest opponents, author Marianne Williamson and Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips, in a result that was virtually predicted. In South Carolina, Biden emerged victorious among the 55 delegates up for grabs.
Thanks mostly to Biden’s insistence, South Carolina is listed first on the official Democratic nomination schedule this year for the first time.
As he secures his first delegates in the pursuit of his party’s nomination once more, Biden will overcome his two closest opponents, author Marianne Williamson and Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips, in a result that was virtually predicted. In South Carolina, Biden emerged victorious among the 55 delegates up for grabs.
Thanks mostly to Biden’s insistence, South Carolina is listed first on the official Democratic nomination schedule this year for the first time.
When his victory was predicted on Saturday night, Biden was in Los Angeles for a fundraising dinner. He later remarked in a statement that South Carolina had set him up for success
“South Carolina voters proved the pundits wrong in 2020, revitalized our campaign, and put us on track to win the presidency,” he said. “The people of South Carolina have spoken once more in 2024, and I am confident that you have put us on the right track to win the presidency and render Donald Trump an embarrassment once more.”
South Carolina is placed by the DNC above Iowa and New Hampshire.
Democratic National Committee DNC is a principal campaign and fund-raising organization affiliated with the United States Democratic Party.
Iowa and New Hampshire have been the first states to vote in Democratic presidential primary contests for decades. However, the Democratic National Committee decided to reschedule certain states in response to complaints that the electorates in those predominantly White states did not accurately represent the Democratic base, which is far more varied across the country.
After reviewing the modifications, Iowa Democratic leaders decided to have a mail-in caucus. Voters will get ballots starting on January 12 and must return them by postmarked no later than March 5 Super Tuesday, when over a dozen other states will hold their primaries.
Citing a state statute mandating that their primary be held first in the country, New Hampshire officials rescheduled, scheduling a renegade Democratic race for January 23 in conjunction with the Republican primary.
The state which contributed to Biden’s win in 2020
To solidify South Carolina’s position as the first Democratic primary of 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris led a get-out-the-vote rally at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg on Friday, while Joe Biden made two visits to the Palmetto State last month.
Last weekend, Biden addressed the Sunday lunch congregation at Columbia’s Brookland Baptist Church, saying, “You’ve had my back, and I hope I’ve had yours.”
The president left South Carolina on Saturday to go on a fundraising tour that included stops in Southern California and Nevada. He stopped at the Wilmington, Delaware headquarters of his reelection campaign before leaving, making a few brief remarks with an eye on the general election.
Even if Biden doesn’t have much formidable opposition for the Democratic candidacy, the president nonetheless found significance in Saturday’s primary since it was his return to the location that helped propel him to the nomination in 2020.
The Republican primary is scheduled for February 24, three weeks before the Democratic primary. Nikki Haley may have one more shot to stop former President Donald Trump from securing a third Republican presidential nomination in the GOP primary.
But in her home state primary, she was behind Trump by 26 points, according to a recent Monmouth University–Washington Post survey.
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