US President Joseph Biden easily won the election for the Democratic presidential nomination in South Carolina, defeating other Democratic candidates, winning all 55 Democratic delegates in that state, AP reports.
Biden defeated other Democratic candidates, including Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson.
“In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong. They breathed new life into our campaign and put us on the road to winning the house. This year, the citizens of South Carolina have spoken again and there is no doubt that they have set us on the path to make Donald Trump a loser again," Biden said in a statement, according to Tanjug.
The AP reports that Biden's re-election campaign has invested heavily in turnout and efforts to mobilize black voters, a Democratic bloc critical to Biden's chances in a likely November rematch against former President Donald Trump.
South Carolina is reliably Republican, but 26 percent of its residents are black.
In the 2020 general election, black voters made up 11 percent of the national electorate, and nine out of ten of them supported Biden, according to an extensive analysis of past elections, according to AP.
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