Vice President Joe Biden heads to a crucial test in the South Carolina primary, where political experts say a win could jumpstart his flagging presidential campaign – or another loss could end it.
WASHINGTON – After earning his first top-2 spot in the Democratic primary Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden heads to a crucial test in the
"Biden has something here that other candidates just don't and can't," said Jordan Ragusa, associate chair of the political science department at the College of Charleston."I think Biden is still the favorite in South Carolina, but certainly it seems there are cracks in his firewall. It's looking a little more penetrable."an average of state polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.
James Hodges, a former South Carolina governor who was national co-chairman of Obama's 2008 campaign, said the state offered a good indicator in recent years of who would become the nominee because results in earlier states were muddled in 2008 and 2016. "They really haven't spent a lot of time in South Carolina of late," Ragusa said of Buttigieg and Klobuchar.
“But I can compete by showing up because they know me,” Biden said. “They know my heart, they know my head, they know my record and they know what I’ve done.”Biden also faced criticism from more progressive candidates, such as Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Buttigieg and Sanders divided the early contests and were nearly tied in delegates coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire. Sanders won Nevada by a large margin Saturday, and took the lead in delegates.
But after anteing up nearly $464 million through the end of January, which allowed him to blanket the country with television and digital advertising, Bloomberg's performance in national polls allowed him to join the Nevada debate last week and the South Carolina debate Tuesday. But his performance there was widely criticized.
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