Joe Biden’s First-Ever Primary Win Is a Big One
“If Joe Biden spends too much more time in South Carolina,” one Biden supporter said yesterday, “we’re going to give him a South Carolina driver’s license and start making him pay South Carolina taxes.”
by Adam Harris
Feb 29, 2020
4 minutes
COLUMBIA, S.C.—Joe Biden had taken blow after blow.
The former vice president had come in fourth place in the debacle that was the Iowa caucus, and it looked like he might do the same, or worse, in New Hampshire. So before the results putting him in fifth place were announced, he fled, literally, to the state whose support he needed most: South Carolina.
And tonight South Carolinians delivered Biden a decisive victory, with most of the major news networks projecting him as the winner as soon as polls closed. It is his , one he hopes will prove his
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