'Saturday was not a glowing endorsement of his candidacy. If anything, it was a concession to a politics of fear.' zakcheneyrice writes on Joe Biden's win in South Carolina
Joe Biden’s win in South Carolina is not a glowing endorsement of his candidacy. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday in what many saw as a foregone conclusion, including Joe Biden himself. Not even an 0-for-3 start in the first three states shook his confidence: “I’m going to win South Carolina,” he declared at the Democratic debate on Tuesday. Polling affirmed his bravado.
Yet the same themes keep emerging whenever reporters ask black South Carolinians, who comprise the majority of the state’s Democratic electorate, why their support for him has been so durable: With Biden, they know what they’re getting. “Black people are rightfully suspicious of things they don’t know, so that’s why name recognition becomes critical,” organizer and Elizabeth Warren surrogate Leslie Mac told Politico in January.
The former-vice president has done everything he can to capitalize on this. He invokes his relationship with Barack Obama regularly to suggest that he’s a natural extension of the former-president’s legacy. There are plenty of grounds on which to dispute this.
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