Al-Jazeera Net - Washington

The major victory of Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden, South Carolina, complicated expectations for election results on Tuesday (next Tuesday), with 14 states voting, in addition to Samoa and the votes of Democrats abroad.

Biden, former Vice President Barack Obama, won broadly, surpassing 48% of the vote, while Senator Bernie Sanders came second with 20%.

Whereas Pete Bottledge finished fourth with 8% of the vote, Senator Elizabeth Warren finished fifth with 7% of the vote, and then Senator Amy Kloppchart with 3% of the vote.

Sanders is leading the Democratic race with 56 delegates, while Biden has a balance of 47 delegates, meaning that the difference between them narrowed and reached only nine delegates, while Petit Bottledge moved to third place with 26 delegates.

The remaining seven Democratic candidates are competing on Great Tuesday for 34% of the state delegates, or 1357 of the total of 3979 democratic delegates. In order to win the party card, the candidate needs to have the votes of 1990 delegates.

Biden's victory brought to life his campaign, which suffered badly during the elections in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, when it came third behind Senator Sanders and Petit Bottledg.

Biden's victory sparked the race before "Great Tuesday", which would also see the start of the entry of billionaire candidate Mike Bloomberg, the race for the Democratic race after he chose to ignore the first four states and focus on the states of "Great Tuesday."

Sanders' dilemma with the votes of African-Americans that caused a big loss in a state where blacks represent 60% of Democratic voters is not the first of its kind.

In the 2016 elections, candidate Hillary Clinton in South Carolina surpassed Sanders by 47 points, and despite narrowing that percentage behind Biden to 28 points, this raises doubts about the ability of Sanders to build a multi-ethnic coalition of minority supporters of the Democratic Party that can defeat President Donald Trump .

It also prompted Biden's widespread success in South Carolina to top the Center-Candidate camp ahead of Pete Potteridge and Amy Kloppcher, and candidate Mike Bloomberg who will participate for the first time in the "Great Tuesday" election.

Biden's victory weakened Bloomberg's chances of entering strongly to represent the center camp - in the absence of a prominent centrist candidate - by which he faced the lead of candidate Sanders, representative of the Progressive Party in the party.

Biden's progress also showed that Bloomberg's miscalculations relied on the fragmentation of the center camp, and for that he spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the states of next Tuesday's elections.

The hopes of Warren, Pottage, and Klopchaur diminished after the results of the South Carolina elections, which led to the withdrawal of billionaire billionaire Tom Steyr, who came third with 11% of the vote, despite spending more than $ 23 million in that state.

The other three centrist candidates did not achieve any convincing ratios despite their pledge to stay and compete in the "Super Tuesday" states.

President Trump congratulated Biden on his victory, tweeted, “Democrats are working hard to destroy the crazy name and reputation of Bernie Sanders, in order to keep him from winning the Democrat card.”