-Y'all not vote already? -Yeah, we went in.
-Good, good. -For six months, Bernice Scott
and her friends have been campaigning for Joe Biden.
-That's why we got to stay focused, y'all.
Stay focused.
The big picture is to get somebody in there
to run this country.
-They call themselves the Reckoning Crew.
-So, Jackie, you probably need more than that.
-You need all your flyers.
-And what we do is we got people from different areas
to come in to help people to know what is going on,
give people the facts, give them whatever's going on,
so that the people can be involved in it
because, out here, sometimes you don't have the Internet.
You don't have the Wi-Fi,
so they don't have this and don't have that.
Hi, Sarah.
How you doing? How you doing?
We out in the bushes and we are going to walk some areas.
Hey, baby, how you doing?
We out here talking about Joe Biden.
-Right, yeah.
-But we got to pull this thing together.
-Right. -And we need everybody out.
-Right. -Tell your wife I said hello,
and tell her please get everybody else out.
We need everybody to come out.
-She will. -We need everybody to come out.
-She will. -All right.
-A Biden win in South Carolina once seemed
like a foregone conclusion.
But after weak showings in the first three states,
the former vice president
is no longer the sure favorite on Saturday.
-The South Carolina primary is the first state
where a sizeable number of African Americans
make up the Democratic electorate.
And so, for a lot of candidates, it's a big question
about whether or not they can appeal to black people.
-For more than two centuries, it's always a fight,
and it's a battle that is never fully finished.
-If you look at Joe Biden, in particular,
he's sort of staked his candidacy on the fact
that he can appeal to African Americans.
He says that the Democratic
nominee cannot be the Democratic nominee
unless they get a large, overwhelming black support.
-We're in a battle for the soul of America.
It's about who we are, what we stand for.
It all starts here in South Carolina.
It starts here, for real, for real,
'cause now we have a state that looks like America,
made up of people that are diverse, different.
-Cleve Wootson has been reporting on South Carolina
for the last year.
-Biden is making an argument that he's the best one
for African American people because he has been here,
because he's been, you know,
Obama's vice president and all that stuff.
I wonder what you think about that argument.
-That's a good argument.
I don't know whether it's a convincing one
because he can ride President Obama's coattails only so far.
-For others, Biden's experience makes him the clear choice.
-Why did I come here tonight?
To support Joe Biden.
He's the best one that ever was a vice president.
And now I don't think there's nobody out there,
I don't care what party you're from,
that can be a better president than Joe Biden.
-African American support, one of the most important things
to realize about it is that it's not monolithic.
African American voters who are older
or more moderate in South Carolina
are more likely to support Joe Biden,
and they're more likely to be sort of pragmatic,
whereas younger African American voters here
and, to be honest, across the rest of the country,
you know, are more likely to go with Bernie Sanders.
-I shouldn't say that I've decided,
but it's really between Bernie and Warren,
and I just want to see what Biden may offer.
From what I've seen and what I've heard,
he's really not the guy for me.
I think he's a little too moderate
when we are in a time of extremism.
I think we need an extreme to match Trump's extreme,
or we will get nowhere with America.
So I told my grandma about Bernie Sanders four years ago,
and I actually convinced her to vote for Bernie Sanders
in, like, 2016 over Hillary,
but of course she still won South Carolina anyway.
-Polls show Sanders trailing Biden here
but gaining ground by the day.
-How does it happen that, in the richest country
in the history of the world, we are the only major country
not to guarantee healthcare to all?
We don't have paid family and medical leave.
We got 500,000 sleeping out on the streets tonight.
-Sanders' message has found a large and growing audience,
but it doesn't ring true for Bernice Scott.
-They believe in free education, free medicine, free, free, free.
But as a local government, working in there for 20 years,
if nothing in the pot, you can't get anything out.
There's nothing free in this society, nothing.
Open the door!
-Come on in.
-Hey, I ain't gonna stay long, baby,
'cause we out campaigning for Joe Biden.
-Oh, okay. How you been?
-What you think about Joe Biden?
-Think he alright.