UPDATE: President Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles this afternoon for a marketing campaign swing.
His first cease is a marketing campaign assembly in Bel Air, in line with a White House pool report. A supply stated that the assembly was on the residence of Freddy DeMann, the producer and music govt who was the co-founder of Maverick Records.
Biden, in the meantime, issued a press release after his straightforward victory within the South Carolina Democratic major.
“In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the Presidency,” Biden stated.
“Now in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken again and I have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the Presidency again — and making Donald Trump a loser — again.”
PREVIOUSLY: President Joe Biden was projected to simply win the South Carolina Democratic major tonight.
NewsNation declared him the winner shortly after polls closed at 7 p.m. ET. Although Biden’s victory was all however assured, the state holds symbolic worth for Biden, as his victory there in 2020 marked a turning level in his marketing campaign for the nomination.
This cycle, Biden faces nominal opposition from Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) and Marianne Williamson. But Phillips particularly has sought to make sufficient of a displaying to ship a message over misgivings about Biden searching for one other time period, given his age. That stated, Phillips misplaced handily to Biden in New Hampshire final week, with the president’s supporters waging a write-in marketing campaign as a result of his title was not on the poll.
The president and First Lady JIll Biden landed in Los Angeles this afternoon for a brief go to that features a POTUS marketing campaign assembly with Black leaders within the leisure business. He will fly to Las Vegas on Sunday for a marketing campaign occasion, upfront of that state’s major on Tuesday.