Joe Biden IS counting on a YUGE win in South Carolina to carry into Tuesday’s Super Tuesday primary contests…
The Democratic establishment IS praying for it…
Jim Clyburn will try his hardest….
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Friday that Joe Biden needs to score a “substantial” win in South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary to propel his flagging campaign into the nominating contests on Super Tuesday.
“I don’t know if I can tell you how big, but it needs to be substantial,” Clyburn told CNN in an interview.
“I would like to see double digits, and not just 10 or 11. I would like to see 15 or 16,” he added. “That’s what I want to see. I have no idea, but I feel good about our chances of getting there.”
After abysmal finishes in the first three nominating states, Biden has staked the fate of his candidacy in South Carolina, where his support among the majority-black Democratic electorate has remained strong.
The former vice president’s White House bid received a much-needed boost Wednesday when Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress and a kingmaker of sorts in South Carolina Democratic politics, formally endorsed his campaign.
Recent public polling suggests Biden is still the favorite to emerge triumphant from the first-in-the-South primary. A Monmouth University survey releasedThursday showed him enjoying a 20-point lead over his nearest rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
It is crucial that Biden achieve a similarly dominant showing when South Carolina voters head to the polls this weekend, Clyburn argued, in order to prove his staying power ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries taking place three days later…..
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), the 2016 vice presidential nominee, is endorsing former vice president Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, hoping to give him a boost before Saturday’s South Carolina primary and Virginia’s primary on Super Tuesday…
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Former vice president Joe Biden appears to have regained momentum in Virginia ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary election, while Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and billionaire Mike Bloomberg have both lost support, a poll released Friday shows.
In the survey by Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Public Policy, 22 percent of likely Democratic voters said they preferred Biden.
Sanders (I), who has been leading in national polls after successes in Nevada, New Hampshire and Iowa, was second among Virginia voters, with 17 percent….
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See what a huge boost he gave to the Clinton-Kaine ticket in 2016 (most voters outside Virginia probably didn’t even know who he was – which of course doesn’t mean that he wasn’t a good governor and senator).
On the other hand, his endorsement should be of some value when the Old Dominion votes next Tuesday.
I wonder how Kaine would be doing had he run for President.
He had a hard time trying to make Hillary Clinton appear more attractive to those who did not like her, but he would probably be one of the more “serious options” in the party now. Or maybe people would have decided that as a straight, white man, he is just too “boring” a la Bennett and Bullock and other potentially strong candidates who never even got a serious look by Democrats.
Just be clear…
Clyburn would NOT be comfortable with Sanders as the nominee right now…
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Galen Druke
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“I think it would be very, very hard for us to win,” Clyburn says, if Sanders wins the nomination.
He compares him to McGovern: “All I’m saying is, George McGovern didn’t bring new voters and we carried only one state.”
Full interview here: https://youtu.be/swttS4566qY