Biden wins South Carolina Democratic primary, AP projects

I feel a smidge bad for Phillips. Very successful businessman and an actual politician, but can't even beat Williamson.

He's one of the richest congressmen though, so I think he'll be ok.

Nah, if he feels bad it's a good thing. Just the worst sort of Democrat who happens to be right that Biden is too damn old, but has no other redeeming qualities.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/dean-phillips-defends-dei-change-on-website-after-ackman-support
- Eww, weak. Thanks for pointing this out.
Im not sure you need to feel bad for very wealthy people
- Wealth isn't a disqualifier to being a good person.
  There seems to be some things we could examine about his character, as another commenter pointed out, but whether someone has money or not has nothing to do with my opinion on people.
  I just felt it would be frustrating to be an actual politician and getting less votes than a guru.
A good businessman is a terrible politician.
- That depends on whether you think a good businessman is someone that can cut costs and increase results or someone that can generate profit.

Shocker

For the record, there's 3,200,000 registered voters in South Carolina. Biden won with 116,266 votes tonight. He received 540,000 votes in 2020.
- I doubt most of them even knew the primaries had already begun. My state's primaries are in a couple of months.
- 262k in the 2020 primary, which is probably the most analogous comparison to the 116k.

That should be the end for Phillips and Williamson

I don't think either of them are in the race because they think they'll get more votes than the sitting president. Williamson is in to push ideology, Phillips is in because Biden is too old and might die.
- They are both there to get delegates and won't. The only other thing they can do is damage Biden, and that too is a failure.
dean phillips isn't dropping out anytime soon. steve schmidt still has hundreds of thousands of dollars to grift off of him still.
btw the phillips campaign should tell you that all of that waxing ~~moronic~~ on and on steve schmidt did about saving democracy and protecting the country from trump was nothing but posturing for the msnbc liberals. if he actually cared about all of that, he would have told his client dean phillips to pack it up after NOBODY showed up for his coffee and conversation event in new hampshire.
Well, yes, but actually no.
How it works is the states doll out partisan delegates based on primary election outcomes and the person with the most at the end wins assuming it breaches a certain minimum threshold. Unfortunately SC appears to have an uncommon winner takes all approach so even though one of them earned enough to get one of the 55 delegates they were instead awarded to Biden.
Losing a single state isn't a nail in anybody's coffin, so they're no worse off now than before the DNC primary began, which is to say they've never really had much of a chance against the incumbent.
- Unfortunately SC appears to have an uncommon winner takes all approach so even though one of them earned enough to get one of the 55 delegates they were instead awarded to Biden.
  Are you sure about that? I don't remember any Democratic primary states doing winner take all. The allocation is different depending on the party. Republicans have a lot of states that work that way.