Former President Donald Trump easily won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, Fox News Decision Desk projected right after polls closed.
Trump was also declared the winner by the AP in mere minutes of the polls closing, serving as a significant blow to Nikki Haley, the former governor of that state.
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Within minutes of the polls closing, the AP called the race for Trump, and others followed:
BREAKING: Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina. #APRaceCall at 7:00 p.m. EST. https://t.co/FjgpZFcJ4E
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) February 25, 2024
Trump’s rapidly-called victory on Saturday over former U.N. ambassador and former two-term South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in her home state moves the former president another step closer to clinching the 2024 GOP nomination.
“It’s an early evening and a fantastic evening,” Trump told a crowd of supporters gathered at the South Carolina state fairgrounds in Columbia, the state capitol, just minutes after polls closed and he was declared the victor.
“Celebrate for 15 minutes, but then we have to get back to work,” he added, referencing next week’s Michigan primary, and Super Tuesday the following week.
At his final pre-primary rally on Friday, Trump predicted he would have a “gigantic victory.”
The massive crowd at the event in Rock Hill, South Carolina numbered roughly 5,000 supporters.
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Trump has three times as many delegates as former Haley already, and he will win up to 50 more tonight, according to the Fox News Decision Desk. Haley could not convert her hometown advantage into a win.
She told supporters this week that she was not dropping out of the race.
Looking ahead to his all-but-certain general election rematch with President Biden, Trump said “we’re going to show crooked Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats that we are coming like a freight train in November.”
Trump said that the end was near for Haley’s White House bid.
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“She’s getting clobbered,” Trump emphasized at a recent rally in North Charleston, S.C., as he pointed to his last remaining major rival for the Republican nomination. “She’s finished.”
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