Hillary Clinton wins big in South Carolina

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Hillary Clinton has wiped away bitter memories of her loss to Barack Obama in South Carolina eight years ago&comma; cruising to a predictable but commanding victory over Bernie Sanders in the 2016 US presidential primary and drawing overwhelming support from black Democrats&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s win gave the former US secretary of state&&num;8217&semi;s White House campaign a huge boost and puts her in a strong position as the race heads towards crucial multi-state contests on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;To South Carolina&comma; to the volunteers at the heart of our campaign&comma; to the supporters who power it&colon; thank you&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said on Twitter&period; At a campaign victory party in Columbia&comma; supporters broke into raucous cheers as the race was called in her favour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She told her victory rally that &&num;8220&semi;tomorrow this campaign goes national&&num;8221&semi; as she and Mr Sanders compete for the Super Tuesday states&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To cheers&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;When we stand together there is no barrier too big to break&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr Sanders&comma; expecting defeat on Saturday&comma; left the state even before voting was finished and turned his attention to some of the states that vote in this week&&num;8217&semi;s Super Tuesday delegate-rich contests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He vowed to fight on aggressively&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;This campaign is just beginning&period; Our grass-roots political revolution is growing state by state and we won&&num;8217&semi;t stop now&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Black voters powered Mrs Clinton to victory in South Carolina&comma; with eight in 10 voting for her&period; She also won over most women and voters 30 and older&comma; according to early exit polls&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her victory came at the end of a day that saw Republican candidates firing insults at each other at rallies in states voting on March 1&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump&comma; working to build an insurmountable lead&comma; was campaigning in Arkansas with former rival New Jersey governor Chris Christie and calling Florida senator Marco Rubio a &&num;8220&semi;light little nothing&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Texas senator Ted Cruz asked parents in Atlanta&comma; Georgia&comma; if they would be pleased if their children spouted profanities like brash billionaire Mr Trump&period; And Mr Rubio mocked Mr Trump as a &&num;8220&semi;con artist&&num;8221&semi; with &&num;8220&semi;the worst spray tan in America&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton made a stop in Alabama&comma; a Super Tuesday state&comma; on Saturday&comma; before returning to Columbia&comma; South Carolina&&num;8217&semi;s capital&comma; for an evening victory party&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr Sanders drew 10&comma;000 people to a rally in Austin&comma; a liberal bastion in conservative Texas&comma; the biggest Super Tuesday prize&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He has energised young people and liberals with his impassioned calls for breaking up Wall Street banks and making tuition free at public colleges and universities&period; But the senator from Vermont&comma; a state where about 1&percnt; of the population is black&comma; lacks Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s deep ties to the African-American community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s sweeping victory suggested South Carolina voters had put aside any lingering tensions from her heated 2008 contest with Mr Obama&period; Her husband&comma; former president Bill Clinton&comma; made statements during that campaign that were seen by some as questioning the legitimacy of the black presidential contender&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This time around though&comma; Mr Clinton was well-received as he travelled the state on his wife&&num;8217&semi;s behalf&period; She focused on issues with particular resonance in the black community&comma; including gun violence&comma; and held an emotional event with black mothers whose children died in shootings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s second White House bid lurched to an uneven start&comma; with a narrow victory over Mr Sanders in Iowa and a crushing loss to the senator in New Hampshire&period; She pulled off a five-point win over Mr Sanders in last week&&num;8217&semi;s Nevada caucuses&comma; a crucial victory that helped stem his momentum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her campaign now hopes her strong showing in South Carolina foreshadows similar outcomes in states like Georgia&comma; Alabama&comma; Tennessee and Virginia that vote on Tuesday and have large minority populations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Taken together&comma; 865 Democratic delegates are up for grabs in the Super Tuesday contests in 11 states and American Samoa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Because Democrats assign delegates proportionally&comma; Mr Sanders is simply hoping to stay close to Mrs Clinton in the South&comma; but he is focusing most of his attention on states in the Midwest and Northeast&comma; including Vermont&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the Republican side&comma; voters will cast ballots in 11 states&comma; with 595 delegates at stake on Super Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed3b1d718e9">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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