Joe Biden has at least one asset that will help offset his expected losses to Bernie Sanders — his strength with black voters gives him an opportunity to pick up delegates in some of the most delegate-rich congressional districts on the map
He doesn’t have the cash, the devoted base, or the expansive organization that Bernie Sanders can point to across the Super Tuesday map.
Sewell’s district, which is 63 percent black, has elite status in the Democratic nominating process. Because of its track record for party candidates, it has eight delegates to offer — three delegates more than the next closest district, which offers just five. Seyfang said the key for Biden was his mammoth win in South Carolina’s majority-black Democratic primary, where he nearly won 50 percent of the vote Saturday and almost kept every opponent below the 15 percent threshold needed to win .
“It had a tremendous effect,” Scott said. “In South Carolina, he carried the white vote as well as the black vote in every county, regardless of African American concentration.” In all, 1,357 delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday; it takes 1,991 delegates to win the nomination on the first round of balloting at the Democratic National Convention.
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