– ‘Super Tuesday’ –
Among Democrats, Clinton leads in the national delegate count at this early stage, having now won three of the first four nomination contests.
Gloria Major, a grandmother and campaign volunteer who supported Clinton in 2008, was among the ecstatic crowd listening to her victory speech in Columbia.
“She has been in battles, she is one woman that can lead this country,” Major, who is black, told AFP. “For years she has had our best interest at heart.”
The 11 states that hold Democratic nominating contests Tuesday will send a whopping 18 percent of the delegates to July’s nominating convention in Philadelphia.
Clinton is ahead in most, but Sanders has the edge in Massachusetts and his home turf of Vermont.
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