Win again: Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primaries

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Hillary Clinton bypassed her main rival in the fight for the post of President Senator Bernie Sanders in the primary elections of the Democratic Party in South Carolina. Reports about it cnn.com.

Sanders has already congratulated Clinton on first place. At the same time on your page in Twetter He thanked his team for working with voters, stressing that the election campaign is just beginning.

Hillary Clinton, in turn, said that now the campaign goes to the national level.

 

“Today you made it clear to everyone: in America, when we stand for each other, there is not a single obstacle that we cannot overcome. We don't need to make America great again—it never stopped being great. But we need to make it whole,” said the former secretary of state.

According to polls conducted the day before the primaries, Clinton was ahead of Sanders by 25% of the vote in South Carolina. However, in the end, her advantage turned out to be twice as large: 73,5% versus 26% for Sanders. Now the candidates are preparing for one of the main stages of the election campaign - Super Tuesday, which will fall on March 1. On this day, primary elections will be held in 11 states, American Samoa, and among Democratic voters outside the United States. Clinton and Sanders will have 1034 national convention delegate votes at stake that day.

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