Hillary Clinton is the projected winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary election Saturday.
Clinton and her Democratic opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, were vying for the state's delegates as they try to secure the party's nomination.
“Apathy is our enemy,” said Debbie Gudenas with the Clinton campaign. “We want to make sure that everybody knows that every vote is important.”
The local Clinton campaign had 25 volunteers ready to go, she said.
At Sanders’ camp, one volunteer came from Durham to help out.
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"We've been just going door to door asking people if they're voting," Olivia Banscum said.
Turnout had to be big for Sanders to have a chance, but he seemed to have written the state off, said Scott Huffmon political science professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina.
"Sanders is hardly in the state at all this week," Huffmon said.
Sanders was focused on Super Tuesday states Friday.
Turnout on Saturday wasn't expected to break records like last week in the Republican primary, Huffmon said.
Sanders was just trying to put up some fight in the primary, he said.
"If Bernie Sanders could even lose by single digits in South Carolina, his team would claim it as almost a victory," Huffmon said.
“He has been traveling around to historically black colleges and universities,” Winthrop professor Karen Kedrowski said about Sanders courting the African-American vote.
“He's been appearing at a number of African-American churches and really turning his message about income inequality and how it affects communities of color,” Kedrowski said.
That is why Sanders has been elsewhere this week, she said.
"I think he's metered himself for the long run,” Sanders supporter Cody Knight said. “He's running the marathon, not the sprint."
Kedrowski explained why Clinton was focused on South Carolina.
"Hillary Clinton really sees South Carolina as a position of strength and she wants to do extraordinarily well here and win as many delegates as possible," Kedrowski said.
Polls open at 7 a.m. Saturday and closed at 7 p.m.
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