On the Ballot in South Carolina: Biden’s Pitch to Black Voters

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

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The Democratic presidential nomination process begins tomorrow in South Carolina, and President Biden is running largely uncontested. But his campaign is expending significant resources in the race to try to reach a crucial part of his base: Black voters. Maya King, a politics reporter at The Times, explains.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.
0:07.0	Today.
0:12.0	When the Democratic presidential nomination process begins tomorrow in South Carolina,
0:19.0	the question is not who will win, but whether President Biden can fix his growing problem with black voters.
0:30.0	My colleague Maya King explains.
0:35.0	It's Friday, February 2nd. So Maya, after weeks of covering the Republican presidential nomination process in Iowa and then
0:52.0	New Hampshire, we're now officially ready to turn to the
0:56.8	Democratic nomination process and that begins in South Carolina, not where it used to begin,
1:04.0	which was in Iowa, along with the Republicans starting there.
1:07.3	And just to begin, remind us why South Carolina
1:10.9	is going first this year.
1:14.0	So this process really started four years ago when black voters in South Carolina turned
1:20.0	out in large numbers to vote for then candidate Biden, effectively saving his campaign.
1:28.9	He was really trailing in Iowa and in New Hampshire.
1:32.6	Right.
1:33.6	And it was when he got to South Carolina
1:35.6	that all of these black voters seeing him
1:38.6	as really the most pragmatic option turned out
1:41.8	in these large numbers to vote for him.
1:45.0	And he took that momentum from South Carolina to Super Tuesday, where he won pretty
1:50.5	overwhelmingly, and then, of course course was then the Democratic Party's
1:55.2	nominee for president. Right and Biden's very explicit about this and proud of it he
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