The South Carolina primary results don't mean Trump will be the nominee

The Brookings Institute ^ | February 20, 2016 | John Hudak

[2ndDivisionVet]

Go look at the FReepathon, genius.

[Albion Wilde]

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 AM to 3:30 PM EST, 2/9/16:

Free Republic Caucus 2016 02/21
Three-Quarters of SC Voters Support Trump's Temporary Muslim Ban [Breitbart]
S.C. Republican statistics [vanity thread - post links]
Trump wins in South Carolina GOP primary; Rubio leads Cruz in battle for second place [WaPo]
(ABC) ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
Republican presidential debate coming to Utah
Obama: Donald Trump won't be president and shouldn't be given the nuclear codes [LA Times]
Ann Coulter Tweets: 'On Fox, Rove ACTUALLY JUST SAID, "If I were Trump, I'd be worried."'
SC exit poll: 75 percent agree with Trump's Muslim ban
Jeb Bush ends White House bid
CNN has called it for Trump
AP Calls SC for Trump
Counts coming in SC [NBC]
South Carolina Primary Results [Trump projected winner by NBC and Fox News]
EXIT POLL HINT: CNN CALLS RACE "CLOSE," SAYS TRUMP, CRUZ, RUBIO "IN CONTENTION" FOR TOP 3!
GOP campaigns trade allegations of dirty tricks in South Carolina
Legendary NY Republican rips party for not backing Trump [former NY GOP Chair Bill Powers]
Live South Carolina GOP Primary Exit Poll Analysis [ABC News]
After Mollycoddling Castro, Pope Francis Blunders In Attack on Trump [NY Sun]
South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary Poll 2/19/16 (Rubio closing in on Trump)
SO YOU DON'T LIKE TRUMP, EH? [Market Ticker]

[bigbob]

To the 10,000 volunteers in the BS “Secret Army”: “You’re Fired!”

To the thousands of annoying phone calls and BEG EMAILS - “Youre Fired!”

To Jeff Roe, the dirty trickster who screwed Ben Carson and put out the fraudulent voter violation mailing: “You’re Fired!”

To the man who couldn’t win ONE SINGLE COUNTY in a state he had declared to be critical, a state that was tailor-made for his style and message, a state full of evangelicals...Ted Cruz: “You’re Fired!”

So much for the vaunted Cruz GROUND GAME! All that ground game accomplished is ZERO delegates. Zip zero nada.

Go Trump! Super Tuesday Clean Sweep!

[DesertRhino]

If Trump goes in as the solid lead, and they play convention games to pick someone BESIDES the winner going in, there will be a revolt.
I know, I’ll be in it.

[JoSixChip]

Rubio? A man who has yet to win even one state?

How can rubio even be eligible? Both his parents were not Americans at the time of his birth.

[Just mythoughts]

John Hudak??? Who reads Brookings? Well, I can understand some might need to go to Brookings to find out what the professional .itchers at National Review are going to regurgitate. I cannot wait to read what Beck, Levin and Rush are going to report on Monday.

I am reading that Trump took ALL, got it ALL 50 delegates in South Carolina... And I watched Rubio and Cruz talk and talk and talk as if they won something... I am in S H O C K!!!

[Albion Wilde]

Correction to the time stamp on your WINNING South Carolina MAGA ping:

Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 3:30 PM to 11:59 PM EST, 2/20/16:

[Lopeover]

I feel the way you do.

[MotorCityBuck]

Big Win tonight folks! Nevad looking Good on Tuesday. :)
Nice new to end a nice day.
Go Trump

[JoSixChip]

Cruz did not win a single county or delegate in SC tonight. His performance was an utter disaster.

Oh, that's not true. Didn't you see his speech tonight? He won by historic margins.

[cowboyway]

"Make America Great Again" is the 2016 version of "Yes, We Can."

Because it makes the sheep feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel good.

[Charles Henrickson]

Trump did it overwhelmingly in SC tonight.

"Overwhelmingly"?? 32.5% is "overwhelmingly"?? All tonight showed is that it's a three-person race and that, once again, two-thirds of Republicans do not want Trump but are split among the alternatives.

[KC_for_Freedom]

My whole problem with the votes not going
Trump’s way when the other candidates get winnowed is that no one really knows how or whether these voters really “hate” Trump. I have dealt with some Dem friends who defiantly hate Trump, for the obvious reason that there is no solid playbook to defeat Trump in the general.

But every Rep voter will eventually have to ask the question of whether they hate Trump enough to stay home and in essence elect Hillary. They can be forgiven their hate Trump feelings for now when they have someone in the race whom they really prefer. But eventually it will come down to Trump and an establishment substitute who did not receive as many delegates as Trump. Now it gets dicey.

My understanding is that the negative Trump vote has been changing and as circumstances continue to change (Trump wins more delegates) they will change some more.

We will see when the likes of Thomas Sowell and Megan Kelly finally understand that there is more to like in a Trump presidency than there is to live with 8 more years of Obama/Hillary. I say this because the Trump contingent also has the prerogative of staying home.

I have been a dutiful GOP voter for almost ever, but it is time to elect someone the establishment does not control. I mean, how much control do we want the establishment to have?

[Lopeover]

I think so too. If Trump was the establishments candidate, they’re be howling at the moon about how it’s over!

[D-fendr]

I think Trump is benefiting from the rules put in place after Romney that favor a plurality..

He is greatly helped the longer the lesser candidates stay in the race. I think a lot will depend on how soon others drop out. If the lowest two drop out, it would change the dynamic quite a bit. If they stay in, it favors Trump.

The bad news for Trump in S.C. is the field split in two; if the result is two or three dropping out, it will hurt Trump quite a bit.

[Rashputin]

Cruz is happy because he's right where he's been aiming to be, the obvious VP choice of the GOPe thugs which puts him at the front of the line for the establishment ticket in four or eight years.

[Eva]

The Insiders have been saying for weeks that when all the Bush, Kasich and Carson votes go to Rubio, he wins.

Trump smeared the wrong candidate.

[Ymani Cricket]

But Gingrich didn't win New Hampshire AND South Carolina and only had 13% in Iowa in 2012, whereas Trump came in second there. Trump has been 2, 1, 1, Cruz 1, 3, 3 and Rubio is 3, 5, 2

[DoughtyOne]

Folks, these are not 2ndDivisionVet’s comments.

Lets give the guy a break.

We’ve had a good day. Lets take easy.

[bray]

It’s but a flesh wound!