How Donald Trump soared to another dominating victory

businessinsider.com ^ | Brett LoGiurato

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In the state's fifth-most populous county -- Horry County -- Trump walloped both Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, earning nearly 50% of the vote. In the highly conservative Greenville County, Trump outpaced both Cruz and Rubio.

And exit polls showed Trump dominated with nearly every single voting bloc in the Republican Party's Palmetto State electorate:

• He won pluralities among both men (36%) and women (29%).

• He fared best among all age groups except the 17- to 29-year-old group, which narrowly favored Cruz.

• He dominated among voters who had not completed high school (45%) and some college (40%), while winning more narrowly among college graduates. Rubio beat Trump, 32% to 20%, among voters with a post-graduate degree.

• He captured more than 30% pluralities among voters making less and more than $50,000 annually.

• While scoring best among Republican voters, Trump also captured 33% of the vote from self-identified independents, who made up more than one-fifth of the electorate.

• He won among both self-identified moderate (34%) and conservative (32%) voters.

• He grabbed 35% of the veteran vote, despite a week in which he criticized former President George W. Bush and suggested he may have "lied" about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in the country.

• He won among born-again or evangelical Christian voters, a group that had broken for Cruz in Iowa.

• He was the top choice for voters whose top issues were immigration (51%), the economy and jobs (36%), and terrorism (31%).

• Finally, the 74% of South Carolina voters who agree with Trump's provocative proposal to temporarily bar most Muslims from entering the US chose him at a 44% clip.

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[Netz]

The data is good but the character assassination of Trump is ONLY beginning...

[goldstategop]

Trump won all but three counties in the state and carried all of its 7 congressional districts.

Now that’s what I call a dominating victory!

[TexasCajun]

Trump is in command, but the fat-lady hasn't sang yet.

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[Nifster]

Shhhh don’t tell Ted or Karl

It will depress them

[JBW1949]

“...He captured more than 30% pluralities among voters making less and more than $50,000 annually...”

Less AND more???????

[jimbo807]

Most interesting to me is why Ted did not win the evangelical vote. What caused that?

[grania]

The only voters where Cruz had a plurality, and that a slight one, is among younger voters. These would be the voters who haven’t been through it before and don’t feel the total disgust for “do whatever it takes” campaigning. They’ll learn, with more experience through life with people who fight their battles using dubious tactics.

[Gaffer]

He “soared” because of an un-abiding disgust of the GOPe’s treachery these past two decades.

He “soared” because he dared say “Illegals Go Home”.

He “soared” because the does not trust Muslims and the belief that moderate Muslims are the tall grass in which Jihadi Terrorists hide undisturbed..

Frankly, for me, that’s all it took.

[SamAdams76]

This bodes very well for the SEC primaries as the demographics are much the same across much of the South.

Ted Cruz was expected to have done well here, with the evangelicals and all. He was supposed to have carried most of the northern and western counties which are heavily evangelical. But he came away with zero. Trump beat him across the board with evangelicals.

[DJ MacWoW]

Two states out of 50 (or 57 if you ask Obama). We have a long way to go yet.

[Sasparilla]

Interesting that the self described only man who can beat Trump didn’t even win one county in this primary. Ted’s good at explaining faux pas with his campaign. Can be explain that?

[goldstategop]

Exactly the kind of broad-based support the GOP establishment has long dreamed of.

But they’d rather have Hillary than see fresh blood brought into the party.

[ripnbang]

the character assassination of Trump is ONLY beginning...began June 16, 2015

There...fixed it for ya

[GilGil]

Evangelicals are a practical bunch and they like to make money. God may not send them the perfect Christian but he is sending them the one who makes them prosper. They recognize that.

[Sacajaweau]

He was on Fox this morning....They did a,b,c....picking every damn little thing he said over time...mandate etc..

[GilGil]

3 states out of 50!

[jimbo807]

I suppose so. But from Iowa to SC a bid change in the evangelical vote. Did what went on there actually hurt Ted?

[goldstategop]

Christians understand Trump isn’t running for sainthood. He’s running for Leader Of The Free World.

And they chose... wisely.