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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has for weeks looked to the black voters of South Carolina to hand a win to his flagging campaign. On Saturday, they delivered. Biden won about 60% of the votes cast by non-white voters, dominating a crowded Democratic field among a group that made up more than half of the electorate. He also performed strongly with older voter and self-described moderates. That's according to AP VoteCast, a wide-ranging survey of more than 1,400 voters in South Carolina's Democratic primary.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says the candidate's first-place finish in South Carolina signal there are “only two candidates remaining with a viable path to the nomination.” Anita Dunn told The Associated Press on Saturday that Biden’s strengths in South Carolina with black voters position him well for March 3, Super Tuesday. Biden is hoping to keep Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from barreling out of the Super Tuesday contests with an insurmountable delegate lead. Dunn said Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 South Carolina primary was his “springboard to the presidency, and we’re on our way to saying the same thing about Joe Biden.”
UNDATED (AP) — The governor of Washington state declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. Health officials say the man who died was in his 50s, had underlying health conditions. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus. A woman in her 40s who works at the facility and a resident in her 70s have tested positive for the virus. Officials in California, Oregon and Washington state are worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities because people are being infected by unknown means.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Officials in Ecuador have confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in the South American nation and Mexico has reported two more to raise the country's total to four. Ecuador's health minister said Saturday that a 70-year-old Ecuadoran woman who lives in Spain arrived in the country on Feb. 14 showing no symptoms of illness. But a few days later she developed a fever and is now in critical condition. It was the second case in South America, following a Brazilian case reported on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Mexican authorities reported new cases in Mexico City and the northern city of Torreon.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's mayor says video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing.” Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that “widely shared footage” of the Friday afternoon shooting in a Red Line L station only shows one perspective and doesn't depict the entirety of what happened, but that it is “extremely disturbing and the actions by these officers are deeply concerning.” She also says she supports the interim police superintendent's perhaps unprecedented decision to ask prosecutors to head straight to the scene. A police spokesman said Saturday that as far as he knew, the man who was shot was still hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
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