Brian Lear on WNYC. In case you blinked and missed it, there was a Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina on Saturday, the first in the nation for the Dems. President Biden got 97% of the vote.

Congressman Dean Phillips and author Mary Ann Williamson each got about 1%. Game over on

day one, officially, probably yes.

But Biden's got other problems.

Democrats have to turn out in November for him to win the swing states, so he campaigned in Michigan on the day before the vote in

South Carolina, yes, Michigan, where Arab Americans make up more of the voting

population than in most other states and Biden's Mideast policy is deeply unpopular.

And then there's the border, a big motivator for Republicans at the moment.

Will this deal that came out of the Senate yesterday do anything to

assuaze them on that and the latest NBC news poll shows him trailing

Donald Trump by five points in a hypothetical match-up I realize it's just a poll, but it's the

worst Biden's ever done in five years of that poll since 2019 versus Trump and

with basically a tie among Latinos.

So don't kid yourselves, the campaigns pay very close attention to a poll like that and

adjust accordingly.

With us now, political correspondent

covering the presidential campaign, Elena Schneider.

Her latest article is called Biden,

gets the South Carolina victory he wanted.

Hi Elena, welcome back to WNYC.

Hey, thanks for having me.

Was it the South Carolina victory he wanted?

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