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March 1, 2020 - Eve's predictions have been met: South Carolina votes for Joe Biden. The former vice-president collects the first fruits of victory: he immediately received the influential support from Terry Mcauliffe, the former governor of Virginia, who goes to vote on the supertuesday of March 3 together with 13 other states. Mcauliffe explained that he wanted to see "who wins the heart of the African American community".The majority of South Carolina voters are black and according to an Associated Press poll, Biden appears to have won about half the votes of African-American voters. "To everyone who gets knocked down and left behind: this is your campaign. Together we will win this nomination and beat Donald Trump," Biden said after his first win.
The primaries in South Carolina provide the first important signal on the views of African American voters. The Democrats' inability to mobilize African Americans in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan in 2016 likely contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat against Trump.
Biden from the first day set his campaign on the continuity of Barack Obama's policies, from health care to the environment, to international relations. The black voters' sense of nostalgia for the first non-white president did the rest. According to Edison Research, the former vice president will win at least 14 of the 54 delegates up for grabs.
Donald Trump's usual tweet was not long in coming and he took it out on what he considers his strongest rival. Not Biden or Sanders, but Michael Bloomberg: "The victory of sleepy Joe Biden in South Carolina should be the end of the mini Mike Bloomberg joke campaign. After the worst performance ever in the history of presidential debates, mini Mike now has Biden who he fragmented his very few votes, taking many away. "
Next appointment with the Democratic primary will be on super Tuesday, next Tuesday. It will be the first real confrontation with all candidates, including Bloomberg. The former mayor of New York will come to the vote for the first time, but after spending over half a billion dollars on advertising.