As expected, the first official Democratic primary election is victorious for US President Biden. In South Carolina he won with well over 90 percent of the vote.
the essentials in brief
Joe Biden has won the Democratic Party’s first primary election by a landslide in the US state of South Carolina.
The vote there is seen as a mood test for Biden’s election campaign.
Biden appeared self-confident after the result was announced and used the opportunity to fire again at Donald Trump.
US President Joe Biden has the first official Democratic primary in the State of South Carolina won as expected without any problems.
Biden is unrivaled within the Democrats
Shortly after the polls closed on Saturday evening (February 3rd / local time), the major television networks CNN, NBC, ABC and Fox News unanimously declared Biden the clear winner in their forecasts and predicted a share of the vote for him of more than 96 percent in advance. There were only a few prominent party colleagues running alongside him. Biden wants to run for a second term in the presidential election in November. He has no serious competition within the party.
The vote in South Carolina was seen as the first major test run for his election campaign, also because many black voters live in the conservative southern US state, whose votes are of particular importance for Biden’s campaign nationwide.
Biden wants to make Donald Trump a loser again
Biden expressed confidence in the outcome of the primary, saying in a written statement that he had no doubt that the people of South Carolina had put his campaign on the path to “winning the presidency again – and making Donald Trump a loser again close”.
Anyone who wants to become a presidential candidate in the USA must first register internal party primaries push through. The candidates will then be officially chosen at party conferences in the summer. The actual presidential election is on beginning of November an.
Of the Republican presidential candidates, only former US President Donald Trump and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are still there. But Trump clearly dominates the race. Everything currently points to a new edition of the election campaign between Biden and Trump, who had already competed against each other in the most recent presidential election in 2020.
Previously election chaos in New Hampshire
The end of January was already in State of New Hampshire The Democratic presidential candidate was voted on in the northeast of the United States. But Biden was not on the ballot there. The background is an internal party dispute: Biden and the Democratic Party wanted to move the start of the primary election series to South Carolina because of the more diverse electorate there, for example in order to give more weight to the votes of black voters. However, New Hampshire did not want to lose its status as the first primary election state and insisted on the early voting date.
Biden still won the vote in New Hampshire in the end: because of an option that allowed voters to enter their own name on the ballot paper. However, his success was more of a symbolic nature, because the delegate votes secured in the state will not be taken into account at the Democratic nomination convention in the summer.
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