Donald Trump was projected as the winner in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary on Saturday over rival Nikki Haley, keeping him on track to become his party’s 2024 nominee. The Associated Press called the race in the former president’s favor as polls closed statewide at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. With an estimated 33% of ballots reported, Trump had 59% of the vote versus Haley’s 40%, according to AP data.
While Haley is a former South Carolina governor, Trump had been widely expected to win in her home state, given he had a 23-point lead in polls focused on the state, according to a RealClearPolitics moving average of surveys as of Friday. Haley is likely to face further pressure to drop out of the 2024 GOP race, but she said Tuesday that she’ll stay in the contest at least until after the Super Tuesday primaries on March 5. She talked about Americans’ “dissatisfaction with the leading candidates,” saying there’s still a chance to restore people’s faith so she “will fight as long as that chance exists.” There are expectations among political analysts that she’ll do as promised and not drop out in the near future. Haley “seems likely to stay in the race regardless of the outcome in South Carolina” because she wants to remain the main Republican alternative to Trump in 2024 or perhaps become the GOP front-runner for 2028, said Stephen Farnsworth, a professor of political science at Virginia’s University of Mary Washington, ahead of Trump’s victory in the Palmetto State. Trump, 77, might face a health crisis or a conviction in one of his ongoing criminal cases, and then Republicans “may have …
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While Haley is a former South Carolina governor, Trump had been widely expected to win in her home state, given he had a 23-point lead in polls focused on the state, according to a RealClearPolitics moving average of surveys as of Friday. Haley is likely to face further pressure to drop out of the 2024 GOP race, but she said Tuesday that she’ll stay in the contest at least until after the Super Tuesday primaries on March 5. She talked about Americans’ “dissatisfaction with the leading candidates,” saying there’s still a chance to restore people’s faith so she “will fight as long as that chance exists.” There are expectations among political analysts that she’ll do as promised and not drop out in the near future. Haley “seems likely to stay in the race regardless of the outcome in South Carolina” because she wants to remain the main Republican alternative to Trump in 2024 or perhaps become the GOP front-runner for 2028, said Stephen Farnsworth, a professor of political science at Virginia’s University of Mary Washington, ahead of Trump’s victory in the Palmetto State. Trump, 77, might face a health crisis or a conviction in one of his ongoing criminal cases, and then Republicans “may have …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]