South Carolina, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History South Carolina, United States Index / Locations Transcripts Josh Earnest ...after that, and you go to places like South Carolina and Pennsylvania and Texas. I'... ...running. I'll do them one at a time. South Carolina was really interesting. In some ways... ...victory in Iowa was as important in South Carolina as it was anywhere else. I say tha... ...voters there who told me this, that the South Carolina Democratic primary is overwhelmingl... ...population in the Democratic primary in South Carolina is predominantly African American, bu... ...Senator Edwards was a native son of South Carolina and had deep roots in the state, havin... ...of us from Iowa who did go down to South Carolina shortly after the Iowa caucuses, an... ...the campaign headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina , that said something like, “Thank yo... ...The Iowa caucuses were a moment in the South Carolina primary, in the same way that the... ...other observation is that South Carolina has this tradition—primarily on th... ...the record of my competitors,” South Carolina is the opposite. There's an art t... ...figures in Democratic politics in South Carolina , and some of it, frankly, ar... ...There was a debate in Hilton Head, South Carolina , in the week leading up to the Sout... ...Carolina, in the week leading up to the South Carolina primary. Whenever there's a clip tha... ...Well, actually two others. I was in South Carolina on the New Hampshire primary night. ... ...primary night. I had not been in South Carolina long, only a day or two, I think. ... ...a day or two, I think. I think I got to South Carolina on the Monday. The caucuses were on ... ...think I was on the 6:00 a.m. flight to South Carolina on Monday morning. Spent the day i... ...but the sentiment was, “Well, jeez, South Carolina might be as important as it's ever bee... ...campaign. So it was a big deal in South Carolina because there's a big militar... ...about it is that it was January in South Carolina , and it was beautiful. It was probabl... ...other thing that I remember from South Carolina is that the question in South Carolin... ...South Carolina is that the question in South Carolina soon became—or I guess at the en... ...get White support? Could a big win in South Carolina , that relied almost exclusively o... ...only a small sliver of White voters in South Carolina . There were a lot of whispers abou... ...community, and had a blowout win in South Carolina that they called right away. I d... ...in building a multiracial coalition in South Carolina . I'm not a historian on presidentia... ...a historian on presidential politics in South Carolina , so I won't say it's never happene... ...to go and be a part of it. After South Carolina , I went back to Chicago for a coupl... ...from Iowa to New Hampshire to Nevada to South Carolina , but people had moved around a fe... ...in Texas. You go to a place like South Carolina , and it's like, This is the person ... ...that I had taken with me from Iowa to South Carolina , and I had then taken the sam... ...I had roped in, and a couple guys from South Carolina that I had pulled with me to Texas. An... ...was akin to the margin in places like South Carolina . It was probably peak Obama momentum... ...it's a hard thing to say after Iowa and South Carolina , but out of those big landmar... ...early states, especially Iowa, but also South Carolina too. Look, the thing that we went t... ...because in moments like Iowa and South Carolina , you have this moment when you fin... ...Florida, about a year in Iowa, and then South Carolina , and Chicago, and Texas, and the... ...which is the massacre in Charleston [ South Carolina ]. Can you talk about the experience o... Show more... Patrick Gaspard ...Georgia, Kentucky—it was fascinating— South Carolina . I should have this somewhere on hand... Marielena Hincapié ...Joe Wilson, Republican from South Carolina , I believe, got up––the president wa... ...the states of Arizona, Indiana, Utah, South Carolina , Georgia, and Alabama. We worke... David Simas ...began in earnest—Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina —and all that occurred, what woul... Cecilia Muñoz ...Joe Riley of—I'm going—Charleston, South Carolina . I had a brain meltdown there for ... ...by the experience of campaigning in South Carolina and visiting a series of schools tha... ...kids.” Did he tell that story about South Carolina ? I'm just thinking because you weren'... ... My first thought was the kids in South Carolina . I said to him, “You can't mean that.... Stephanie Valencia ...the primary states for him. I went to South Carolina and New Hampshire and Pennsylvania an... ...primaries so that I could go down to South Carolina and canvas for the weekend. So, I said... Tommy Vietor ...ended up going everywhere. 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