Posted on 02/10/2016 3:52:05 AM PST by RC one
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With Donald J. Trump’s decisive victory in New Hampshire and no strong runner-up among a pack of also-rans, the Republican race barreled into South Carolina on Wednesday shadowed by a question: whether any alternative candidate can gain enough support to threaten Mr. Trump’s drive to the nomination.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, the second-place finisher in New Hampshire with less than half the support of Mr. Trump, arrives in this more conservative Southern state where he has little staff or support. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, resuming an effort here to enlist the Christian right, the key to his victory in Iowa, faces a playing field where evangelical voters are far less monolithic. And former Gov. Jeb Bush, buoyed by outperforming his Florida rival Senator Marco Rubio, has a chance to open more daylight — but it is unclear if it will be enough to inspire establishment-leaning Republicans to coalesce behind him.
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Someone jog my memory—In previous Republican primaries, have the losers generated as much excitement as they have so far this time around?
All those polls are before Ted Cruz won Iowa. Ted Cruz will crush Trump in South Carolina.
Read this.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2582915
Trump is polling higher in SC than he was in NH.
Jeb will probably throw everything he has at Cruz in a desperate attempt to finish second.
They are saying that W will campaign in SC and we all know that he hates Cruz.
Romney, another North East liberal won New Hampshire In 2012. Gingrich only got 9 % in New Hampshire, but then crushed Romney in South Carolina.
Good article, everyone interested should read the entire article.
Key word, decisive! Trump 2016
Not that I recall.
And with that result, the nostrum that South Carolina picks the eventual nominee was laid to rest.
Romney won decisively in New Hampshire in 2012 too. What happened to him in North Carolina?
Yeah?
A contested NH primary winner hasn’t won the presidency since 1988.
Gingrich won in SC because he attacked the press at the beginning of the debate there. Gingrich is more similar to Trump than to Cruz.
4 years ago the candidate backed by evangelicals was Santorum and he finished third in SC.
SC has open primaries just like NH. Independents will come out in droves for Trump. Cruz will be lucky if he finishes in second.
Ted Cruz has vastly more money, a vastly better organisation and ground game in South Carolina than Gingrich ever did in 2012 or Trump has this year. He is going to blow Trump out of the water.
And who won the nomination that year?
I’m a big Cruz supporter, but if he cannot win SC then he’s toast. Trump has a lot of momentum. I would support him if he won the nomination.
Good point about Bush. I agree he will pout and try but his days are numbered. Trump will win the rest of the primaries unless something off the wall happens. The unfortunate thing is the bad blood between Trump and Cruz....it seems beyond repair.
% of GOP voters who say they are very conservatve and evangelcal
Iowa: 40%, 62%
NH: 27%, 25%
SC: 36%, 65%
New Hampshire is the least religious state state in the country and the 5th most liberal. Its perfect for the Godless Trump.
Ok, you are living in fantasyland. Cruz was never ahead in any SC poll. You prediction that he will win there is only based on wishful thinking.
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