Joe Biden FINALLY wins a state as South Carolina called for the former veep the minute polls close  

Joe Biden, long considered the Democrats’ frontrunner, finally won a state, as South Carolina was called for the former vice president the minute polls closed. 

At Biden’s headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina supporters screamed at the early call as MSNBC played on the jumbotron at South Carolina University’s volleyball center. Directly after, the band playing the event started performing ‘I Gotta Feeling’ by the Black Eyes Peas. 

Biden’s win was called with 0 per cent reporting because exit polls had signaled such good news for the former vice president.   

More than half of those who cast ballots were black, a stronghold for President Obama’s vice president. Nearly half say that Rep. James Clyburn’s endorsement – which was for Biden – was an important factor in their vote, according to the Washington Post. 

And about half said they wanted the next president to return to Obama’s policies, rather than dramatically shaking up the country, which is in line with what Biden’s has proposed.  

Biden has been trying to recover from his fourth place finish in Iowa and his fifth place loss in New Hampshire, as the Real Clear Politics polling average has Bernie Sanders nationally more than 10 points ahead of the former vice president. 

South Carolina could finally give Joe Biden a win. The former vice president was photographed Saturday at a polling site in Greenville, as Democratic voters from the Palmetto State choose their primary pick 

Joe Biden’s supporters let out loud cheers when the jumbotron in the volleyball center at the University of South Carolina broadcast that the ex-vice president easily won the state’s Saturday primary 

Joe Biden supporters react to the news that their candidate won the South Carolina, with the race called as soon as polls closed at 7 p.m. EST

Joe Biden supporters await the vice president’s speech Saturday night in Columbia, South Carolina 

Polls showed Bernie Sanders (right) in a comfortable second place leading up to voting day in South Carolina. He held his last South Carolina rally Friday afternoon in Columbia, where he appeared alongside rapper Big Mike (left) 

Pete Buttigieg looked to be in a battle for third place in the state. He held a town hall Friday night in Columbia that attracted just over 1,000 people and attended a canvass kick-off event in the capital city Saturday morning, before leaving to campaign in Super Tuesday states 

Elizabeth Warren hoped to get some momentum from two memorable debate performances, where she went after billionaire candidate Mike Bloomberg, who is not competing in the South Carolina primary 

One week ago, Biden had his best showing yet – second place in the Nevada caucuses, though he came in far behind Sanders. He earned about 20 per cent of the vote to Sanders’ 47 per cent. 

‘Well, you all did it for me!’ Biden told a crowd of supporters gathered at a union hall in Las Vegas. He spoke as NBC News was calling the caucuses for Sanders. 

‘Now we are going on to South Carolina to win and we’re going to take this back,’ Biden announced. Biden had previously called South Carolina his ‘firewall.’ 

Upon the race being called for Biden, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe endorsed Biden on CNN and said he would campaign with him over the next three days. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democratic senator from Virginia, is also backing. 

Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday, as part of ‘Super Tuesday.’ 

President Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale responded to the news by saying, ‘Once again, President Trump is the clear winner because not one of these candidates has a chance at beating him in November.’   

South Carolina could once again be a bump in the road for Sanders, who lost the first-in-the-south primary to Hillary Clinton four years ago by a whopping 47 points. 

The final two polls taken in the state, released Friday, show Biden 21 and 9 points ahead. In both these surveys – one conducted by Trafalgar Group and one by Data for Progress, the Vermont senator was comfortably in second place. 

The battle for third looks to be between Tom Steyer, a billionaire who funded the ‘Need to Impeach’ effort against President Trump and has never held elected office, or Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old openly gay former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. 

The three women still in the race – Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Tulsi Gabbard – were all polling in the single digits in South Carolina Friday. 

Warren had memorable debate performances in both Nevada and South Carolina, going after billionaire candidate Mike Bloomberg, who decided to skip the first four states, instead laying the groundwork for a ‘Super Tuesday’ delegate haul. 

Tom Steyer’s (left) South Carolina primary eve event featured the rapper Juvenile (right) and a joint performance of the 1999 hit ‘Back That Azz Up’  

‘Super Tuesday’ is this Tuesday and Democratic voters from 14 states will select their candidates of choice. 

Hoping that she might see some momentum out of the back-to-back debates, Warren stuck around South Carolina Saturday and continued to campaign. 

At the same time, Sanders headed to Warren’s home state of Massachusetts, to see if his neighborly status as the senator from Vermont could attract a sizeble amount of the state’s voters, who will vote Tuesday. 

USA Today reported that more than 10,000 people showed up Saturday in Boston to hear Sanders speak. 

Sanders’ last event in South Carolina didn’t draw anywhere near that amount of people. 

He chose his final event to take place in Columbia, the state’s capital and the home of the University of South Carolina, as well as several other schools, on Friday afternoon. 

There, he invited actor Danny Glover and rapper Big Mike, along with a number of black local officials, to help him earn over more of the important African-American vote in the southern state. 

Killer Mike, a supporter of Sanders’ since 2016, specifically tailored his message to black voters. 

‘Listen to me black people in South Carolina. I’m talking to black people in South Carolina,’ the rapper told the crowd. ‘If it rhymes with slow, don’t vote for it. If the name is “Mike” don’t vote for it.’ 

As South Carolina voters headed to the polls, Bernie Sanders held a rally that attracted 10,000 people in Boston, Massachusetts. He’ll be in Virginia Beach, Virginia around the time South Carolina’s polls close 

Only polling in the single digits in South Carolina, Amy Klobuchar headed to Richmond, Virginia Saturday to campaign in the ‘Super Tuesday’ state instead 

While polling indicates that Sanders has made some progress in earning the support of black voters nationally, in South Carolina Biden had the benefit of the high-profile endorsement of Clyburn, the third most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives. 

Clyburn put his weight – and his political machine in the state – behind Biden on Wednesday. 

‘But I want the public to know that I am voting for Joe Biden, South Carolinians shuld be voting for Joe Biden,’ Clyburn said at the press conference announcing his decision. 

The other candidates have worked to get the support of members of the black community too. 

Steyer’s last big effort was his Friday night event at Allen University, a historically black college in Columbia. 

There, he invited the rapper Juvenile to come play for his crowd of mostly college-age supporters. The billionaire candidate also put out a spread for attendees that included fruits, cheese, charcuterie and a mashed potato bar. 

After a sound snafu prevented Juvenile from performing his full set before Steyer’s speech, the rapper and the candidate came out onstage at the end of the night and performed Juvenile’s 1999 hit ‘Back That Azz Up’ together. 

Juvenile later told the press that he was giving Steyer his endorsement, because of the policy proposals the candidate pitched that were aimed at the black community. 

Midwestern candidates Buttigieg and Klobuchar have struggled to add black voters to their base. 

Klobuchar, hoping for better luck in the Super Tuesday states, headed to Richmond, Virginia on Saturday. 

Buttigieg held a final event in Columbia, South Carolina Friday night – a town hall that attracted a little more than 1,000 people. He held a canvassing event with supporters Saturday morning. 

He saw bigger crowd on Saturday, however, as the young mayor stumped in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Earlier in the week in Charleston, Buttigieg attracted protesters from ‘Black Voters Matter,’ as he tried to march in solidarity with fast food workers asking for a minimum wage bump to $15 an hour. 

‘Pete can’t be our president, where was $15 in South Bend?’ the protesters shouted. 

Indiana law prevents mayors from setting their own minimum wage.              

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