After blowout South Carolina loss, Bernie Sanders vows 'this campaign is just beginning'

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Bernie Sanders struck a hopeful note following his decisive loss to Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary. "Let me be clear on one thing tonight," he said in a statement after the election results were announced: "This campaign is just beginning."

Sanders is already looking ahead to the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses on March 1. "In just three days, Democrats in 11 states will pick 10 times more pledged delegates on one day than were selected in the four early states so far in this campaign," he remarked, adding, "Our grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won’t stop now."

With a Clinton win in South Carolina widely predicted ahead of Saturday's vote, Sanders has already left the state and is on his way to Minnesota, host of one of Tuesday's 11 contests.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.