The Democratic Party is increasingly focused on and organized around diversity. It also has the most diverse field of candidates in the history of presidential politics. And voters in South Carolina, the first primary state with a predominantly African-American Democratic electorate, have been inundated with 2020 hopefuls in these early weeks of the campaign.
Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with the South Carolina NAACP. Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand just made swings through the state over the last week. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren will be there in a few days.
All of this, as South Carolina will take on increased prominence in 2020 for another basic reason: the primary calendar.
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