Black voters lead Clinton to resounding victory

“Tomorrow, this campaign goes national”, Clinton said in her victory speech.

She called for Americans to embrace love and togetherness – a swipe at Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s hard line stands on immigration.

Then Clinton went to her own favorite criticism of Sanders.

And in a pointed dig at Republican nominee Donald Trump, she said: “Despite what you hear, we don’t need to “make America great again”. America has never stopped being great.

“I know it sometimes seems a little odd for someone running for president these days and in this time to say we need more love and kindness in America”, she added.

“I think we’re going to win here in Minnesota, I think we’re going to win in Colorado, I think we’re going to win in Oklahoma, I think we’re going to do really well in MA and I think we’re going to win in Vermont“, he said.

Sanders now heads to Super Tuesday looking to make a comeback.

In a statement, Sanders vowed to fight on aggressively and he drew 10,000 people to a rally in Austin, a liberal bastion in conservative Texas, the biggest March 1 prize. The Superdelegates, as they may in every other state, choose the candidate they wish to support, regardless of the popular vote.

Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton by nearly 48 points in SC, 73.5 percent to 26 percent, a margin much wider than indicated by pre-vote polls that showed the former secretary of state up by closer to 20 points. To win, 2,383 delegates are needed to win out of the 4,189 total delegates.

As voters in South Carolina’s Democratic primary cast ballots that would ultimately lead to a landslide victory for Hillary Clinton against Vermont Sen.

She earlier won Iowa by a narrow margin, and also took victory in Nevada. Eight in 10 primary voters said they were Democrats, and 8 in 10 of them were Clinton voters. “Now it’s on to Super Tuesday”, Sanders said.

However, a higher percentage of black voters turned out for this race than in 2008, according to an exit poll from the Associated Press. Sanders won among whites by 58 to 42 percent.

And it signals that SC voters, at least, hope to extend the Obama presidency.

Black voters also made up a far larger share of the primary vote on Saturday than they did in 2008. Young voters, ages 17-29, supported Sanders by 63 percent, compared to 37 percent for Clinton. Clinton had 502 delegates to 70 for Sanders in advance of the primary. The win gave her momentum heading into Super Tuesday, where more than a dozen states and territories get their turn to vote.

Sanders has built a massive network of small donors and has the money to stay in the race deep into the spring.