Former US Vice President Joe Biden, a centrist candidate who until recently was the national favorite in the Democratic primary, has abruptly canceled the act he had summoned Tuesday night in New Hampshire, where he is already voting in the second appointment of the contest, to go to South Carolina, the State to which it is held as a salvation table of a presidential race that suffers at its start.
After a hit in the caucus from Iowa, where he was in a very disappointing fourth place at the start of the primaries, Biden’s options to correct the course in New Hampshire are slim. The candidate has lost in the last week the position of leader in the national polls, which Bernie Sanders has taken from him. The last four surveys conducted in the country put the leftist senator in the lead, with advantages ranging from 10 to three points.
The average reference polls, that of Real Clear Politics, places Sanders 2.6 points above Biden. And there is another worrisome fact for the former vice president: candidate Michael Bloomberg, who addresses himself as the centrist voter, is already third in the polls, just 6.8 points from Biden, despite having decided to skip the first appointments of the Primary
“We’re going to South Carolina tonight,” Biden told reporters. Shortly after, his campaign confirmed that the candidate will not be at the party scheduled in the town of Nashua, New Hampshire, to continue the count.
Nevada and South Carolina are the next appointments in the process of Democratic primary. Unlike overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire, these are two states with more diverse electorates where Biden’s expectations are higher. Especially in South Carolina, which will be next February 29 the first big date with the African-American voter, key to the Democratic Party and a collective in which the former Vice President of Obama is strong a priori. In Nevada, where the next day 22 is voted, Biden also hopes to highlight, although a good result from Sanders is expected among the Latino electorate, to which he has dedicated many resources in his campaign.
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