The resounding victory against Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders on Saturday in the Democratic primary in South Carolina gave a boost to his campaign on the eve of "Super Tuesday" a key milestone in the race for the White House.
In four weeks of Democratic race, the former Secretary of State won the first decisive battle of the campaign, after a narrow victory in Iowa, an embarrassing defeat in New Hampshire, and winning five points in Nevada to Sanders.
Clinton, 68, won 73.5% of the vote in South Carolina with 26% of the senator from Vermont, according to final figures almost in a state where the primary in 2008 the former First Lady also had fallen against Barack Obama .
"From tomorrow becomes national campaign," Clinton Saturday night supporters in Columbia, capital of South Carolina said. "Let's go get every vote in every state. Not give anything for granted, "he said.
The black electorate, which represents more than half the primary voters in South Carolina -the first southern state to vote in the primaries, was instrumental in the victory of Clinton, with its majority support.
Only 3% of the delegates to the Democratic nomination convention in Philadelphia July, ahead of November's presidential election, won on Saturday.
But the 11 states that vote on "Super Tuesday" define 18% of the Democratic delegates at stake and 24% of the Republican delegates.
Although Sanders dominates in Massachusetts and Vermont, several southern states will vote on Tuesday are similar to that of South Carolina, and Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas, where President Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband, was governor until 1992 demographic composition.