Biden denies calling South Carolina his firewall

But he did exactly that as recently as February 2nd.



“What’s happening is you have Steyer spending millions of dollars out campaigning there, so I think a lot’s happening in terms of the amount of money being spent by billionaires to try to cut into the African American vote,” Biden told CBS’ Margaret Brennan.

When Brennan described South Carolina, the first primary state where African Americans are a major bloc of the electorate, as Biden’s “firewall,” the former vice president responded, “You said it’s my firewall, I’ve never said that. I’ve said I’m going to do well there.”


https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/484254-biden-blames-steyer-for-drop-in-south-carolina-african-american


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"I think I'll do well in Nevada," he said. "And I think I have a real firewall in South Carolina. And then we go into the Super Tuesday states that have a significant number of minorities and African Americans," where "I think I'm gonna do fine. So I don't think that this is like it has been in the past, that if you haven't won the first two that you're done."


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-bus-inside-former-vice-president-s-final-iowa-pitch-n1128406?mod=article_inline