On the similar time, the anti-Sanders camp stays break up: Mr. Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar are all insisting o
On the similar time, the anti-Sanders camp stays break up: Mr. Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar are all insisting on staying within the race whereas Mr. Bloomberg is spending closely on promoting in Tremendous Tuesday states like Texas and California, the place Mr. Sanders might construct up a delegate lead if the remaining vote is split.
Within the aftermath of Mr. Sanders’s triumph in Nevada, the query that more and more looms over the race is whether or not Tremendous Tuesday, when 16 contests are held on March 3, would be the day he places himself on a glide path to the nomination.
On Sunday, his aides started taking steps towards attempting to do exactly that.
After months of downplaying Mr. Sanders’s prospects in South Carolina, the place he misplaced badly within the 2016 main due to his weak point with black voters then, his marketing campaign was blunt about its goal in Saturday’s vote.
“We’re combating to win in South Carolina,” stated Jeff Weaver, a prime Sanders strategist, noting that polls present them “transferring up significantly on the vp.”
Ought to Mr. Sanders defeat and even end close to Mr. Biden in South Carolina, a state the previous vp has lengthy seen as his firewall, it might vault him into Tremendous Tuesday three days later with such drive that it might be tough for any of his opponents to meet up with him.
That’s when Mr. Sanders is hoping to pile up delegates whereas additionally inflicting symbolic blows on his opponents by successful in a few of their house states, together with Ms. Warren’s Massachusetts and Ms. Klobuchar’s Minnesota, each of which Mr. Sanders plans to go to earlier than March 3, in response to aides.
But it’s Mr. Sanders’s resolution to compete aggressively in South Carolina, the place he has lengthy lowered expectations by vowing solely to “do nicely” there, that illustrates how quickly this race is transferring to him. Greater than half of the state’s Democratic citizens is anticipated to be African-American, one among Mr. Biden’s strongest blocs of help, and the previous vp has led within the polls there for the reason that outset of the race.