Biden easily wins the South Carolina primary, the first date on the Democratic electoral calendar. The victory confirms his efforts to modify the calendar, placing first the race in the state whose black electorate was key to his 2020 victory.

South Carolina is a red state, but 26% of its residents are black. In the 2020 general election, Black voters represented 11% of the national electorate, and 9 in 10 of them supported Biden. “We have a lot at stake, friends. We have an enormous obligation,” he said of his electoral and even existential dispute, from a political point of view, with the Republican Trump.