There are TWO polls just out that show they former Democratic Vice President under Barack Obama with double digit leads…
Biden owns the black vote….
For the record?
You can’t win the Democratic nomination without winning South Carolina….
Joe Biden is blowing away his Democratic rivals in South Carolina, according to three new polls that show he’s the only candidate with outsize support from African-American voters in the first-in-the-South primary.
While the former vice president has lost ground in surveys of overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire, Biden is pulling in about a third of the overall primary vote in South Carolina. His lead there is powered by a 44 percent backing from black voters, surveys from Quinnipiac University and the University of North Florida released Monday show.
Another survey released Monday, from CBS News/YouGov, shows even stronger support from black voters in South Carolina. Biden receives more than half of his support from African-Americans and has 45 percent overall support.
His next-closest opponents in South Carolina are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, at 17 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders at 15 percent in the CBS poll.
In the Quinnipiac poll, Biden has 33 percent support and Warren and Sanders are at 13 and 11 percent, respectively. In the UNF survey, Biden registers 36 percent support, with Warren and Sanders tied at 10 percent.
The polls bolster claims by Biden’s allies that he’s the only candidate in the race who can point to a broad base of support with a pillar of the Democratic Party – African-Americans.
Their continued backing is essential to Biden’s bid — particularly in the South — since black voters could account for one-in-four total voters during primary season. High black turnout is also crucial to any Democrat’s chances in a general election.
While Biden is benefitting from his status as vice president to the first black president, his longstanding ties to South Carolina and the attacks on his character by Donald Trump have also reinforced his position, according to state Sen. Marlon Kimpson, a Democrat from North Charleston who is neutral in the race and has hosted numerous candidates in his majority-black district.
“Ironically, Trump has helped Biden here,” Kimpson said.
“People I talk to believe Biden doesn’t get a fair shake. And there’s some ownership of him. He has been friendly to our state. He was President Obama’s vice president. There’s sort of a feeling of kinship with him,” Kimpson said. “And people don’t like folk picking on their relative. They believe Joe is an uncle to our state. And Trump’s preoccupation and fascination with taking him out has resonated.”….
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Biden remains the obvious favorite in SC, but he still can lose – especially if he does poorly in IA and NH. Both Sanders and Warren have made sizable gains in the black vote, and I have no reason to believe that they have peaked.
ALL of the others trail Biden by 20% points or MORE in SC…..
If they can’t touch him, is he still allowed to touch them?
Add Arizona to the places Biden beats the field right now….
In the endorsement arena in S.C….
Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin said yesterday that if Michael Bloomberg enters the S.C. primary he will support him.Benjamin is one of the most prominent Black politicians in the state.
State Rep. Bakari Sellers ,another prominent Black Politico and CNN contributor ,is supporting Kamala Harris.
Jim Clyburn and Joe Cunningham,the states two Democratic congressmen, are remaining neutral as of now.
Joe Bidens best known supporter is former Governor and Clinton era Secretary Of Education Dick Riley.
I don’t all this changes anything for Biden….
Who said it did?
It was simply a list of endorsements.