Count on a comparatively early Saturday evening in South Carolina, the place President Biden faces little opposition within the first official Democratic main of the cycle. Polls will shut at 7pm ET, and outcomes needs to be accessible shortly after. The information media will most definitely name the race earlier than all of the votes are counted on Saturday evening.
The Related Press will name a winner within the race after the primary outcomes are reported from the state. In 2020, the AP called the Democratic main proper at 7 o'clock for Mr. Biden, who gained the state with 54 p.c of the vote. This 12 months, Mr. Biden leads the polls by an excellent greater margin and faces far fewer opponents.
Election officers will most definitely depend virtually the entire ballots earlier than the tip of the evening. In 2020, South Carolina election officers counted 98 p.c of the vote earlier than adjourning for the evening at 12:17 a.m., in response to the AP.
These outcomes is not going to be official till after the election is licensed, which would be the Thursday after Major Day.
