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First voting test: Biden wins the South Carolina primaries

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Joe Biden, President of the United States, speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol. Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP/dpa

The vote in South Carolina was seen as the first major test run for the election campaign for incumbent US President Joe Biden (81) – also because many black voters live in the conservative southern US state, whose votes are of particular importance to Biden’s campaign in the whole country .

Biden expressed confidence in the outcome of the primaries and said in a written statement that he had no doubt that the people of South Carolina had put his campaign on the path to “win the presidency again – and Donald Trump (77) again to make you a loser”.

Anyone who wants to become a presidential candidate in the US must first win in the parties’ internal primaries. The candidates are then officially chosen at party conferences in the summer. The actual presidential elections will take place in early November.

Trump in the lead

Of the Republican presidential candidates, only former US President Trump and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are still present. But Trump is clearly dominating the race. Everything currently points to a new edition of the election campaign between Biden and Trump, who already competed against each other in the most recent presidential elections in 2020.

At the end of January, the Democratic presidential candidate was voted on in the state of New Hampshire in the northeastern United States. But Biden was not on the ballot there. The background is an internal party dispute: Biden and the Democratic Party wanted to move the start of the primary election series to South Carolina – because of the more diverse electorate there, for example to give more weight to the votes of black voters. However, New Hampshire did not want to lose its status as the first state for the primaries and pushed for an early voting date.

Biden ultimately won the vote in New Hampshire — because of an option that allowed voters to enter their own names on the ballot. His success, however, was more symbolic because delegate votes won in the state will not be taken into account at the Democratic nominating convention in the summer. (SDA)

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