Why President JoeBiden's Democrats want South Carolina to go first in 2024 Analysis from JimAntle:
Biden stumbled out of the gate early in 2020, finishing fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, and a very distant second in Nevada, trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders by over 16 points.
South Carolina’s Democratic primary electorate is about 60% black. Exit polls found black voters accounted for 56% of the 2020 primary turnout and that Biden won 61% of their votes. With just under half the total vote in the seven-way race, he ran nearly 30 points ahead of runner-up Sanders. Iowa’s whiteness, complex voting process, and software glitch delaying the 2020 results for days all caused the state to fall out of favor with Democratic activists. It has also in recent years become less of a battleground state and increasingly favors conservative Republicans.
That cycle was the first time Biden ran for president. Michael Dukakis, then the governor of Massachusetts, won the nomination that year. But the more-than-90% white state of Iowa nevertheless played an important role in the election of the first black president. It’s entirely possible that without his first place finish in Iowa he would not have consolidated black support in subsequent primaries.
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