Clinton win over Sanders in S/Carolina cements front-runner status

Hillary Clinton easily won the U.S. Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina on Saturday, cementing her status as front-runner in her party’s race and delivering a key defeat to Bernie Sanders ahead of the crucial Super Tuesday nominating contests. Clinton won the backing of almost three-fourths of Democrats who went to the polls in the […]

Hillary Clinton easily won the U.S. Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina on Saturday, cementing her status as front-runner in her party’s race and delivering a key defeat to Bernie Sanders ahead of the crucial Super Tuesday nominating contests.
Clinton won the backing of almost three-fourths of Democrats who went to the polls in the first Southern state to vote during the presidential candidate nominating season.
The result was never really in doubt. The only question was whether Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, could narrow what was nearly a 30-percentage-point deficit in recent opinion polls.
The Sanders campaign quickly released a statement from the candidate congratulating Clinton on her victory.  “Tomorrow, this campaign goes national,” Clinton told cheering supporters at a primary evening rally here.