Joe Biden Looks Past Expected South Carolina Win to Super Tuesday

Ryan Teague Beckwith and Jennifer Epstein
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(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday as he looked to slow Bernie Sanders’s march toward the Democratic presidential nomination backed by strong support from black voters.

Polls closed at 7 p.m. ET. No official results had been reported, but the Associated Press and networks declared the former vice president the winner.

(Updates with vote totals in first two paragraphs)

To contact the reporters on this story: Ryan Teague Beckwith in Washington, D.C. at rbeckwith3@bloomberg.net;Jennifer Epstein in Charleston, South Carolina at jepstein32@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Magan Crane

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