Red red Linsey Graham SC?
Trump got crushed with the 37% of voters looking for a "shares my values" candidate (Cruz-Rubio-Trump 37-27-8), and the 15% who wanted a "win in November" candidate (Rubio-Trump-Cruz 47-21-17), so those are the pitches that are working best against him (note that this is a much better result on 'electability' for Rubio than in New Hampshire or Iowa); where both Cruz and Rubio need to work at Trump is the 31% of "can bring needed change" voters, who went 45-19-16 Trump-Cruz-Rubio.
While Trump's win looks big, it's actually the second-smallest margin of victory ever in the South Carolina Republican primary (to McCain in 2008) and the smallest percentage of the vote for a winner, and Trump got fewer actual votes than Newt Gingrich did in 2012 or McCain in a losing effort in 2000:".............................. Source
“Cruz did not win a single county in red red SC.”
You mean, “red red EVANGELICAL SC.” If he can’t win it there he can’t win it anywhere.
Anyhow, maybe Rubio should be the focus/target of all FReepers now. He’s sliding in and we have to start paying attention.
We’re talking about the same state that elects Lindsey Graham every election...
Hardly a bellwether conservative stronghold.