Trump Projected South Carolina Winner; Cruz And Rubio Battle For Second
After months of lagging poll numbers and failing to place in the top tier in the sc primary that Donald Trump is projected to win, Jeb Bush said a tearful goodbye to the presidential race Saturday night. Marco Rubio of Florida were running neck-and-neck for second place. Exit polls suggest there’s one Trump stance that voters particularly favor: his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
Shortly after CNN’s Mark Preston reported the Bush campaign would end, Jeb Bush told his supporters in SC he would suspend his campaign after a disappointing finish.
Trump’s win provides further evidence that the grassroots, working-class anger fueling his rise still simmers.
To the west, in the desert state of Nevada, Democrats caucus – group themselves together by candidate to voice their support – starting at 11 am (1900 GMT).
Cruz, who defeated Trump in the Iowa caucuses and was hoping for a repeat in the SC primary, says he is seeking to build “the old Reagan coalition” of evangelicals, economic conservatives, young people and Ronald Reagan-style Democrats.
SC was the death knell for Bush.
Donald Trump’s supporters erupted into cheers as they learned their candidate had won South Carolina’s GOP primary.
SC voters are casting their ballots for the Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
The son of former President George H W Bush and brother to the former President George W Bush, Mr Bush also fared poorly in earlier contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. “But no matter what the future holds, here’s the greatest… landing you can imagine – tonight I’m going to sleep with the best friend I have and the love of my life”. The real-estate mogul easily won the Palmetto state primary while Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio battled it out for every vote in second place. Gov. He had barely 300 votes more than Gov. John Kasich of OH, who ended with 7.6 percent.