Sen. Sanders' 2020 run for the White House has been predicated on his ability to energize the electorate and bring new voters to the polls. But results from Super Tuesday show that Joe Biden can tap into a strong wave of support from Democrats.
In Lancaster County South Carolina, where the population is 22 percent African-American, the number of votes was up 83 percent compared to 2016. And in the county, Biden got 980 more votes in 2020 than Hillary Clinton received in 2016. Sanders got a bump too, compared to his 2016 tally, but it was smaller, only about 470 votes.
But the other, and bigger, factor in Democrats primary turnout surge appears to be coming from urban/suburban voters around major metro areas. There are a lot of votes available in those communities, many of them have turned out in bigger numbers so far in 2020 and they have turned out for Biden. And in Greater Charlotte N.C., Mecklenburg County produced 42,000 more votes than it did in 2016. Biden got 727 more votes out of that county than Clinton got in 2016. Sanders, meanwhile, got 6,300 fewer votes.It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s driving those surges and the movement to Biden. The 2020 landscape is different than 2016 in a lot of ways.
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