Biden projected as winner in South Carolina, halting momentum of front-runner Sanders

Biden projected as winner in South Carolina, halting momentum of front-runner Sanders

Biden projected as winner in South Carolina, halting momentum of front-runner Sanders

Joe Biden was projected to win South Carolina's Democratic primary on Satur...

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GREENVILLE, S.C (Reuters) - Joe Biden was projected to win South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Saturday, reviving his faltering White House campaign and halting the surge of national front-runner Bernie Sanders, who appeared headed to a distant second-place finish.

Television networks and Edison Research, which conducted exit polls in South Carolina, projected Biden as the winner as soon as voting closed in the Southern state. Exit polls showed the former vice president beating Sanders among a wide range of demographic and ideological groups.

Biden needed a decisive win in South Carolina, where his popularity among black voters proved decisive in a state where more than half of the Democratic electorate is black, after poor showings in the first two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

The win gives him new momentum as the Democratic race to find a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump now broadens quickly, with Super Tuesday primaries in 14 states that will award one-third of the available national delegates in a single day.

Sanders, a progressive U.S. senator from Vermont who had become the national front-runner, appeared likely to finish second in the state. Tom Steyer, a billionaire-turned-activist who spent heavily in South Carolina, appeared likely to finish third.

Nearly eight of 10 voters in South Carolina said they have a favorable view of Biden, compared with five of 10 who see rival Sanders favorably, exit polls showed. The polls also found about six of 10 of South Carolina voters said influential black congressman James Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden on Wednesday was a factor in their decision.

About half want a candidate who will return to Democratic President Barack Obama’s policies, a key argument of Biden, who was Obama’s vice president.

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

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The "voters who never attended college" smear is some good shit.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

If you want to see real racism, as in actual honest to god American racism just read Reddit politics. The Bernie Bots are a hairs breadth away from saying "fuck the stupid niggers for not voting the right way".

It's glorious.


I've always said scratch an liberal elitest and find a shitty human being.

 

[FlappyBat]

Environmentalist Tom Steyer ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid

Environmentalist Tom Steyer ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, a fierce critic of President Donald Tru...

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Environmentalist Tom Steyer ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid - R…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, a fierce critic of President Donald Trump who had pushed early for his impeachment, abandoned his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday after trailing in third place in the South Carolina primary, a campaign source told Reuters.

Steyer, who poured hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into his quest, dropped out of the race on the day of his strongest showing yet in a 2020 Democratic nominating contest. Even so, he finished far behind winner Joe Biden and second-place finisher Bernie Sanders.

“Honestly, I can’t see a path where I can win the presidency,” Steyer told supporters in South Carolina.

“I love you very much, this has been a great experience, I have zero regrets. Meeting you and the people of America has been a highlight of my life.”

The 62-year-old former hedge fund manager from San Francisco portrayed himself as a political outsider and blasted corporate money in U.S. politics in July, when he joined a field of two dozen Democrats seeking to deny Trump, a Republican, a second term.


He poured $64.7 million of his own wealth in January into his bid for the Democratic nomination, bringing his total campaign spending to $267 million.

Like fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Steyer drew criticism from other Democrats as trying to buy his way to the nomination. Spending tens of millions of dollars, however, did not win the level of support from voters needed.

Steyer said he would support the eventual Democratic nominee.

Steyer amassed a fortune, estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.6 billion, after founding investment firm Farallon Capital Management in the mid-1980s and serving as a partner at San Francisco private equity firm Hellman & Friedman.

In January 2019, he had said he was passing on a 2020 run to focus on efforts to impeach Trump and get Democrats elected to the U.S. Congress.

Steyer has been a force in Democratic fundraising over the past decade. During the 2018 election cycle, he was the second-largest donor to Democratic and liberal candidates and causes, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

He has worked for years on climate change and voter engagement and donated about $170 million since 2015 to his independent political action committees, Need to Impeach and NextGen America.

Steyer billed himself as the only candidate who would make climate change his No. 1 priority as president. “It is a state of emergency and I would declare a state of emergency on Day One,” he said during a November debate.

Edit: Just saw a Steyer ad on TV lol.

 

[Quixotic Man]

If you want to see real racism, as in actual honest to god American racism just read Reddit politics. The Bernie Bots are a hairs breadth away from saying "fuck the stupid niggers for not voting the right way".

It's glorious.


I've always said scratch an liberal elitest and find a shitty human being.

Well if they just stayed home during the primary, then pushed the button next to the big D in the general, everything would be fucking fine! How do we implement voter ID for the primaries only?
- The braintrust on Reddit right now.

 

[Shady Attorney]

Bernie got second place in a state that votes Republican every election. This proves he‘s unelectable!

 

[DocHoliday1977]

Describing Bernie as the new front runner and now saying that his momentum has been "halted" is just over-exaggerating everything. When Super Tuesday rolls around, that's when things get serious. California and Texas count for nearly 650 delegates by themselves.

Death cult reaches its peak. Lol. Let bvb the slaughter begin.

 

[HeyYou]

Bernie got second place in a state that votes Republican every election. This proves he‘s unelectable!

It definitely throws a slight wrench into the "black people love him more than Biden" narrative.

 

[Shady Attorney]

It definitely throws a slight wrench into the "black people love him more than Biden" narrative.

I thought the narrative was with Latinos

 

[X Prime]

Yeah, it was Hispanics, especially in Florida.

 

[HeyYou]

I thought the narrative was with Latinos

Nah, there were a lot of twitter posts and articles about Bernie's black support being super big and to not write it off as black people supporting Biden. Then tonight happened. Saying that Bernie is doomed is stupid, but black people are a fair amount of the Democrat electorate and Biden is courting them heavily.

 

[Unpleasant]

Bernie got second place in a state that votes Republican every election. This proves he‘s unelectable!

It's more about the lack of niggo support.

Without a galvanized black base, it's harder to bus groups of basketball Americans around to commit random acts of voting fraud.

 

[X Prime]

Southern African Americans are basically a deciding voting bloc in the Democrat primaries. In the general, they are barely relevant.

The fact Sanders doesn't have their support is actually pretty ominous for him. It's the same thing that destroyed him in 2016.

 

[Quixotic Man]

Well known stat nerd Nate Silver is now heavily predicting no one getting a majority of delegates. Hold on to your shit, lads and ladies, the DNC convention is going to be a hoot.

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

Environmentalist Tom Steyer ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid

Environmentalist Tom Steyer ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, a fierce critic of President Donald Tru...

www.reuters.com

Environmentalist Tom Steyer ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid - R…

archived 1 Mar 2020 03:56:16 UTC

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Spoiler: Article

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, a fierce critic of President Donald Trump who had pushed early for his impeachment, abandoned his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday after trailing in third place in the South Carolina primary, a campaign source told Reuters.

Steyer, who poured hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into his quest, dropped out of the race on the day of his strongest showing yet in a 2020 Democratic nominating contest. Even so, he finished far behind winner Joe Biden and second-place finisher Bernie Sanders.

“Honestly, I can’t see a path where I can win the presidency,” Steyer told supporters in South Carolina.

“I love you very much, this has been a great experience, I have zero regrets. Meeting you and the people of America has been a highlight of my life.”

The 62-year-old former hedge fund manager from San Francisco portrayed himself as a political outsider and blasted corporate money in U.S. politics in July, when he joined a field of two dozen Democrats seeking to deny Trump, a Republican, a second term.


He poured $64.7 million of his own wealth in January into his bid for the Democratic nomination, bringing his total campaign spending to $267 million.

Like fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Steyer drew criticism from other Democrats as trying to buy his way to the nomination. Spending tens of millions of dollars, however, did not win the level of support from voters needed.

Steyer said he would support the eventual Democratic nominee.

Steyer amassed a fortune, estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.6 billion, after founding investment firm Farallon Capital Management in the mid-1980s and serving as a partner at San Francisco private equity firm Hellman & Friedman.

In January 2019, he had said he was passing on a 2020 run to focus on efforts to impeach Trump and get Democrats elected to the U.S. Congress.

Steyer has been a force in Democratic fundraising over the past decade. During the 2018 election cycle, he was the second-largest donor to Democratic and liberal candidates and causes, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

He has worked for years on climate change and voter engagement and donated about $170 million since 2015 to his independent political action committees, Need to Impeach and NextGen America.

Steyer billed himself as the only candidate who would make climate change his No. 1 priority as president. “It is a state of emergency and I would declare a state of emergency on Day One,” he said during a November debate.

Edit: Just saw a Steyer ad on TV lol.

Environmentalist?

Weird way to say billionaire.

 

[FadeIntoBolivian]

Bernie is currently polling ahead in California, Texas, Massachusetts (lol), North Carolina, Virginia, Utah, Maine, and Vermont (obviously).

I really think Mayor Pete will need to drop out before the weekend is up to boost Biden/Bloomberg's numbers enough to siphon a few more delegates away from Bernie if they wanna fuck him over. Or Warren, but she's getting paid good money to not drop out until wednesday.

 

[thx1138]

I'm just calmly waiting for one of Joe's eyes to swell up to the size and attain the color of a plum during a debate, and then burst, showering the other candidates, the moderators, and the first row with blackened vitreous humor, and he just keeps on gabbling at a rapid-fire stutter ending with "If you don't like the goo, vote someone else for dogcatcher. I'm a republican! I'm a democrat! I'm a demopublican! Reedle reedle reedle! Let me put your daughter on my lap so she can feel my leg hairs! 155 million Americans murdered by Corn Pop! Give 'em a shotgun blast through the door! AR-15's too heavy!"

 

[tuscangarder]

@tuscangarder right now
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Libtards are mad, blaming blacks for being dumb
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Since I can't actually neg rate you, I give that post a dumb and an autistic.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Since I can't actually neg rate you, I give that post a dumb and an autistic.

I didn't know the ability to rate posts can be taken away.

 

[Jump]

Bernie is currently polling ahead in California, Texas, Massachusetts (lol), North Carolina, Virginia, Utah, Maine, and Vermont (obviously).

I really think Mayor Pete will need to drop out before the weekend is up to boost Biden/Bloomberg's numbers enough to siphon a few more delegates away from Bernie if they wanna fuck him over. Or Warren, but she's getting paid good money to not drop out until wednesday.

Biden's brain is mush. The more he has to talk the more people see that. He wont hold up long term or on the main stage against Trump.
Goofy Warren can't even win her home state of massachuscetts. Bernie is going to run the table in most of the states going forward.
And that will make the salt amazing when Bernie rolls up just short (because of Warren) at convention and they pick Bloomberg.

 

[murdered meat bag]

Well known stat nerd Nate Silver is now heavily predicting no one getting a majority of delegates. Hold on to your shit, lads and ladies, the DNC convention is going to be a hoot.

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I know this is going to be a shittake but if Nate is accurate and no one gets a majority does that mean A&H's collective political analysis is accurate? or in other words, why does nate have a job and pop statistics considered important if all it takes is some tweaking to "i have a gut feeling"? I don't want to disregard anaylitical prediction or whatever but there is something about going on your intuition.