Posted on 02/24/2024 6:37:49 PM PST by MtnClimber
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president.
The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m., with Trump securing all 29 winner-take-all state delegates. With some 65 percent of the vote in, Trump was up by roughly 20 points.
“This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory.
“I have never seen the Republican Party as United as it is right now,” he said.
The former president notably did not mention Haley at all in his remarks.
Trump was joined on stage by several South Carolina Republican leaders, including Sen. Tim Scott, who, despite being appointed to Congress by Haley in 2013, endorsed Trump after he dropped out of the primary race.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has endorsed Trump but has butted heads with him in the past, was heavily booed by the crowd when he was introduced.
Haley — who was a two-term governor in the Palmetto State — was banking on doing better in her home state than she did in Iowa and New Hampshire.
In her concession speech Saturday night, Haley congratulated Trump on the victory but said he is not the Republican candidate best suited to beat President Biden in November.
She also announced she is not going anywhere just yet.
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Haley seems to be hoping lawfare works and takes Trump out.
Where does it say in US Constitution than a person can not run for president from prison?
Amen. Pray for this man, he fights.
Makes no sense. Even if Trump is removed, Trump delegates will not nominate Haley
Yep, that’s the lottery ticket she’s carrying around in her purse. She’s hoping the Uniparty/Soros kangaroo courts provide the jackpot for her. She picked it up when RDS threw it away.
Whistling past the graveyard.
Trump 2024
It could happen to her.
This is her last chance to redeem any iota of respectability. She needs to withdraw NOW.
I’m willing to partially and guardedly write off her behavior until now as campaign bluster for the sake of party unity.
A graceful and conciliatory speech of congratulations to Trump would go a long way toward presenting a united front against the Democrats.
“Haley seems to be hoping lawfare works and takes Trump out.”
If Lawfare takes Haley out, then Greg Abbott or perhaps Christy Noem will become the nominee. And he is the democrats nightmare as he is a far more disciplined politician and knows how to keep his mouth shut.
Haley is just wasting liberal and RINO money, which is a good thing
I’d vote 3rd party before I voted for her.
> Haley seems to be hoping lawfare works and takes Trump out. <
Bingo. DeSantis did the delegate math, and withdrew from the race. Haley has evidently decided to play the ghoul instead, and hope for something bad to happen to Trump.
Haley has gone Native in Antifa bomb throwing land.
She is done.
Well done!
Total BS. Time for you to step aside and rally behind Trump, but you indicate you won't, so don't say it is not about you, or that it is even about beating Biden, because I bet you will cast your vote for Biden.
You say Trump is more diminished than he was. Let me see you face what is being currently thrown at him, and I am willing to bet everything I own that you would crumble like a cookie even at your age of 51.
I wouldn't trust you at all in a minor crisis, let alone a major crisis.
I am glad you mentioned Abbott. He is who I would love to see on the ticket with Trump!
shes a political imbecile...everybody can see what they are doing to him, and she latches onto that. Go back to being a house wife....idiot.
> Even if Trump is removed, Trump delegates will not nominate Haley <
From what I’ve read, it’s a complicated mess. You would think that all of the Trump delegates would become free agents. But evidently different states have different rules as to what would happen to those delegates.
This from the New York Post???? The editors must be home for the weekend.
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