The current president of the United States, Joe Bidenhas won the Democratic Party primary elections in South Carolina, the state that launched him to the presidency of his party four years ago, which means his first official victory in the primaries of the 2024 campaign.

Biden has won with 96.2% of the vote, according to official data with the count almost complete. According to official data released by the media, which already proclaimed Biden the winner, his two main rivals have fallen far behind: the author of self-help books Marianne Williamson took 2.1% of the votes, while the Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips he only got 1.7%. With these results, Biden would take the 55 delegates that South Carolina assigns.

Still, it is a small number compared to the almost 2,000 delegates that Biden needs to officially proclaim himself as the Democratic candidate for the November elections, where he could once again face former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), favorite to be the Republican candidate.

This is the first time South Carolina has appeared at the top of the official Democratic nominating calendar. Historically, this position had been held Iowa or New Hampshirebut the Democratic National Committee decided to change it due to criticism that the electorate of these states is majority white, so they did not reflect a sufficiently diverse Democratic base to extrapolate it to the national level.

Iowa Democratic officials accepted the changes and opted to hold an all-mail caucus with ballots sent to voters beginning Jan. 12 and postmarked March 5, the Super Tuesdaywhen more than a dozen other states are scheduled to hold their primaries.

For their part, New Hampshire officials, citing a state law that requires their primaries to be the first in the country, held a dishonest democrat race along with the Republican primaries on January 23.

The Republican primaries, where Trump will compete against the former US ambassador to the UN and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haleyare scheduled for February 24th.

Despite the Democratic Party’s investment in South Carolina, this state is not in play in the November elections, as it is considered a conservative bastion who has not voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1976, with Jimmy Carter (1977-1981).