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Bernie Sanders has spent his time visiting other states. | Getty Sanders puts South Carolina in rear-view mirror

AUSTIN — South Carolina is holding its Democratic primary today, but you wouldn’t know it just by listening to Bernie Sanders.

Jetting off to Austin from Columbia, S.C. this morning — before stops in Dallas and Rochester, Minnesota — Sanders made no reference to the state voting today during his early afternoon rally at a Formula One racetrack here.

“We were more than 30 points down in Iowa and it was a virtual tie. We were 30 points down in New Hampshire and we won. We were 25 points down in Nevada and we came within five points,” said Sanders to a crowd of over 10,000, while voters were going to the polls back in South Carolina. “And now we move on to Super Tuesday."

Sanders has bristled at the implication that he’s written off the state entirely, but Hillary Clinton is expected to win there by a wide margin.

The Vermont senator spent much of the last week in March-voting states where he thinks he has a chance to rack up strategically important delegate hauls, including Michigan, Minnesota, and Oklahoma. Toward the beginning of his outdoor Austin event, he reminded the crowd that Texas is the biggest delegate prize of all on March 1.