Trump wins South Carolina Republican primary

A recent CNN/ORC survey indicated that Trump held 45 percent of the vote among likely caucus-goers there, followed by Rubio in second place with 19 percent and Cruz with 17 percent.

About 53% said they feel “betrayed by the Republican Party”, according to the results, and about 40% of voters said they are “angry” at the federal government. In fact, Kasich has already turned his attention to delegate-rich Super Tuesday states which will vote on March 1, and is in MA watching results tonight, not SC. Marco Rubio are battling for second place, and the margins between the three top candidates remain in tight. Ted Cruz. A second-place finish between the senators will help give them a leg up in the upcoming contests, although a third-place finish won’t knock either of them out, either.

But in a continuing sign of her vulnerability, Sanders did best with voters looking for a candidate who is caring and honest.

In what appeared to be a jab at Mr Trump, whom Bush has accused of lacking ideas, the former Florida Governor said, “ideas matter, policy matters”. He vowed to bounce back, and entered the SC contest enjoying support from the state’s popular governor, Nikki Haley, and other state leaders. He laid out why he can successfully sue Cruz (“I have never had somebody take something you believe in and say the exact opposite”) and even cleverly attacked former President George W. Bush, who came to the Palmetto State to stump for his brother Jeb.

Republican Donald Trump remains out in front in the presidential nomination race with a victory in SC, while Jeb Bush stands down and Hillary Clinton wins narrowly in Nevada.

Donald Trump has won the SC primary, while Texas Sen. “It’s crunch time, folks”, Mr Trump said at a North Charleston rally, his final pitch before the SC primary. His racist tirades, ugly rhetoric, and heretical positions have yet to damage his standing with the disaffected, working class voters who have buoyed his unlikely campaign.

“We’re the only campaign that has and can defeat Donald Trump”, Cruz told his supporters after asking for a moment of silence for former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last week. “The Bush thing, people are just going to have to get over it”, he said at a later town hall in Portsmouth.