“We need you, we want you, there’s a place for you in this campaign. "For all of those who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind - this is your campaign," Biden told a victory party in Columbia, South Carolina. Biden’s win came at a do-or-die moment in his 2020 bid as the moderate Democrat bounced back from lacklustre performances in the three previous primaries - Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. The vote marked Biden’s first primary victory of the election season, as well as the last major event on the election calendar before the crucially decisive Super Tuesday, which falls on March 3, on which primaries take place in 14 US States as well as American Samoa, and Democrats Abroad. Only Biden and Sanders managed to meet that threshold in South Carolina. Under primary rules, any given candidate, regardless of ranking, must win at least 15% of the vote in each delegate pool to win any delegates at all.
With a total of 54 South Carolina delegates in the offing, Biden picked up 36 to Sanders’ 11, with the remainder uncommitted. Sanders came in second with 19.9%, and billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer placed third with 11.4%.
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