Former Vice President Joe Biden fled an election defeat in New Hampshire on Tuesday, returning to South Carolina hours before polls closed with a message for the experts and cable TV pundits who said his struggling campaign is finished.
With Sanders, Buttigieg and Klobuchar poised to pick up delegates, Warren and Biden suffer setbacks, and two other candidates drop out of the race.
As poll results started to come in from New Hampshire, the men and women of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Mass Choir opened Biden’s campaign event with a rousing gospel rendition of “All in His Hands.”I know that he can solve themBiden, who has deep ties to South Carolina, is still the front-runner here.
After securing 46% of the vote in a Post and Courier poll in May, Biden’s support dropped to 25% last month, with Sanders and Steyer not far behind, with 20% and 18%. No polls have come out of the state this month, but a national Quinnipiac poll released this week shows support for Biden among black voters dropping from 52% to 27% since the Iowa caucuses.
In an attempt to shift focus, a throng of more than 150 Biden supporters, including a crew of South Carolina state legislators, filed into an event space Tuesday night to send a message that the Biden campaign was not over.“His chances are just as good as Day One,” said Kenneth Glover, chairman of the Orangeburg County Democratic Party, who has not made any endorsement but came to offer support. “We need someone to restore the integrity of the office.
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