Four years ago, Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary and revived his faltering campaign, thanks in large part to James Clyburn. Almost 540,000 voters went to the polls in 2020, and Biden won just under half of them — but took more than two-thirds of the delegates. Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer finished with double digits but far behind Biden, and the nomination was all but settled.
Four years later, with runaway inflation still doing damage and questions about Biden’s competence getting louder, how many will show up today to endorse the incumbent? Biden’s team screwed up in New Hampshire and ignored Iowa, but they have put on the full-court press in South Carolina in an effort to bolster a president with the worst re-elect Gallup numbers in more than 30 years:
Fewer than four in 10 U.S. registered voters say President Joe Biden deserves to be reelected, while less than a…
