Bernie Sanders is looking forward to the March nominating contests. | AP Photo Sanders: I can still win the nomination

Sen. Bernie Sanders, dealt a heavy loss in South Carolina on Saturday, said he still has a path to the Democratic nomination and that Saturday’s defeat was “about as bad as it’s going to get.”

“On Tuesday, we're going to have over 800 delegates being selected. I think we're going to win a very good share of those delegates,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “You've got major states coming up. And I think the important point is that people throughout this country are resonating to our message.”


Sanders said he believes he will win Tuesday in Minnesota, Colorado, Oklahoma and his home state, Vermont. He also said he expected "to do really well in Massachusetts" and cited future primary states where he could win, such as New York and California.

In South Carolina, Hillary Clinton won 73.5 percent of the vote in South Carolina to Sanders’ 26 percent, with African-American voters heavily favoring the former secretary of state.

Sanders acknowledged that his campaign did “really badly with older African American voters,” he said. “I mean, we got decimated.” But he pointed to his better margins with younger voters, including African-Americans, where he performed better.

“We came into that state at something like 7 percent, 8 percent in the polls. It was a tough road for us to hold,” he added.