“If you don’t have the capacity to perform well in South Carolina, it likely means you’re not capable of performing well later in the primary.”[Read about Kamala Harris’s entry into the Democratic presidential race.] South Carolina will be the first contest in which a majority of those casting ballots will be African-American. In 2016, black voters made up roughly 60 percent of the South Carolina Democratic primary vote. South Carolina will mark the final clash before California, Texas and an array of similarly diverse states, comprising over 30 percent of the race’s total delegates, vote just three days later. While some of the nine Super Tuesday states allow early balloting, the Democrats who wait to vote on Primary Day itself will be heavily influenced by the South Carolina results.

Source: New York Times January 22, 2019 10:00 UTC