U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and his administration’s effort to revive American manufacturing, during his visit in Flex LTD, a factory that makes solar energy microinverters, in West Columbia, South Carolina, July 6, 2023.
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President Joe Biden has won the South Carolina Democratic primary, NBC News projects.
As of 7:45 p.m. ET, with 15% of votes in, Biden led with 97% of the vote.
Running against Biden were House Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and self-help author and 2020 Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson.
“In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the Presidency,” Biden said in a statement following the results.
“Now in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken again and I have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the Presidency again — and making Donald Trump a loser — again.”
NBC News’ Decision Desk projects that Biden will be awarded all 55 Democratic delegates in South Carolina. Neither Williamson nor Phillips is expected to meet the 15% threshold of the vote statewide, or in any congressional district, to be awarded delegates.
The party’s eventual nominee will need 1,968 total delegates nationwide to secure the nomination.
The state’s Republican presidential primary will be Feb. 24, pitting South Carolina’s former governor, Nikki Haley, against former President Donald Trump.
Biden’s win was widely expected, given his incumbent advantage and sizable lead in polls going into Election Day.
The president also has a track record of success in Democratic primaries in the Palmetto State: His 2020 victory in that year’s primary helped pave his way to the nomination.
But what mattered more than winning delegates today was Biden’s margin of success.
Results are still coming in, but the eventual tally will offer the Biden campaign and the Democratic party, their first ballot box…
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