Hillary Clinton thrashed Sanders in South Carolina

Hillary Clinton thrashed Sanders in South Carolina

Sunday, February 28, 2016 7:31 am


Hillary Clinton in South Carolina: a major victory before Super Tuesday

Hillary Clinton in South Carolina: a major victory before Super Tuesday

Hillary Clinton crushed her Democrat opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders, in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, confirming the prospects of her bagging the ticket for the November election.

It was Clinton’s third victory in the first four Democratic contests.

Exit polls had foreshadowed Clinton winning big in the state with almost every constituency. She won nine of every 10 black voters, as well as women, men, urban, suburban, rural, very liberal and conservative voters.

Sanders was ahead among voters between ages 18 and 29, and among white men.

Clinton made it clear after the vote that she was already thinking of a possible match-up with Republican front-runner Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Without mentioning Trump’s name, the former secretary of state shot down Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again” and his plans to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

“Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great,” she told supporters in her victory speech in South Carolina, pausing for applause then adding, “but we do need to make America whole again.”

“Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers,” said Clinton, who would be America’s first woman president.

Clinton said she was not taking anything for granted after crushing Democratic rival Bernie Sanders on Saturday by 48 points and likely setting herself up for a good “Super Tuesday” night on March 1, a key date in the nomination battle.

But if Clinton and Trump win big on Tuesday as polls suggest, the chance of a general election match up between them increases, adding another twist to a presidential campaign that has defied convention as U.S. voters vent frustration over economic uncertainty, illegal immigration and national security threats.

A Trump-Clinton election would embody the outsider vs. establishment battle in American politics. Trump has never been elected to public office, while the former first lady has been a player in Washington for decades.

South Carolina Democratic voter Teri Faust, 59, said Clinton would be better able to take on Trump than Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont. 

“Bernie wouldn’t stand a chance against him. Hillary is strong,” said Faust, who met Clinton when she came to her church two years ago and again on Clinton’s first campaign trip to the state when she held a roundtable for minority women business owners. 


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  • Razak Banjo says:

    I also share the view of the South Carolina Voter. More on the November election, my bet is Trump v. Sanders, Trump wins but Trump V. Hillary, Hillary wins.

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