“Yes, absolutely,” Sanders said when asked by host George Stephanopoulos whether he would have to do better with the black vote to have a shot at the nomination. “No argument with you. You are correct. But I think you’re going to see us doing much better within the African American community outside of the Deep South. You’re going to see us doing much better in New York state, where I think we have a shot to win, in California and in Michigan.”

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Sanders said the only positive in South Carolina is that he continued to perform well among younger voters.

“And that was good,” he said. “But we got killed.”

His chattiness about the race on Sunday morning followed near-silence on Saturday night.

When the race was called, Sanders was on a plane, flying between campaign stops in Texas and Minnesota, two states with Super Tuesday contests. He hadn’t been in South Carolina since shortly after 9 that morning.

During the nearly two-hour flight, Sanders’s office issued a statement congratulating Clinton and vowing to fight on. Once he landed, the senator from Vermont finally appeared on camera, speaking to the more than dozen reporters traveling with him — for 24 seconds.