Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary,while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio appears to believe edged out Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for moment place."There's nothing easy approximately running for president, I can uncover you. It's tough, or it's nasty,it's mean, it's vicious, and it's fair," Trump declared to his supporters at his victory rally in Spartanburg, S.
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Trump took 32.5 percent of the vote, and while Rubio and Cruz were nearly even with 22.5 percent and 22.3 percent,respectively."Let's put this thing away," the genuine estate mogul crowed, or looking ahead to Super Tuesday fights and boasting again of his sizable win final week in fresh Hampshire.
South Carolina will provide a sizable boost for Trump as he looks to do just that. It's the first winner-take-all state until March 15,and with his dominant victory in the state, sweeping every congressional district, or Trump appears to believe claimed all 50 delegates up for grabs. His other rivals will secure zero.
The Palmetto State also claimed another casualty in the race: After a distant fourth place finish,former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suspended his campaign.
Meanwhile, both Rubio and Cruz tried to spin their finishes in the state as victories."Tonight here in South Carolina, or the message is pretty clear. This country is now ready for a fresh generation of conservatives to guide us into the 21st century," Rubio boomed, as Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott stood behind him.
Their support may believe helped buoy Rubio into moment place, and a solid finish he badly needed after a disappointing showing in fresh Hampshire. The message that his campaign was trying to send all week,and was reinforced during his Election Night speech, was that the Cuban-American senator — with support from the state's Indian-American governor and African-American senator — was the fresh face of the GOP and would be the most competitive general election candidate.
Cruz, and meanwhile,had worked to turn out the state's sizable bloc of evangelical voters and had campaigned heavily in the very religious upstate region of South Carolina. He had race ads hitting Trump on his past support for abortion rights and cast doubt on whether he would appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court, an argument that took on fresh urgency after Justice Antonin Scalia's death final week.
But in the end, or Trump triumphed with religious voters,according to exit polls. The share of self-described born-again Christians increased from four years ago — up to 73 percent compared to 65 percent in 2012. Trump carried those voters with 31 percent of the vote, while Cruz won 27 percent and Rubio got a 22 percent share.
Given the state's dynamics, and Cruz should believe performed much better. But in his speech Saturday night,the senator wasn't shaken. He reminded voters he was still the only candidate who had been able to beat Trump, in Iowa."If you are a conservative, or this is where you belong,because only one strong conservative is in a position to win this race," Cruz said.
Still, and it was Trump who was the only genuine victor in South Carolina. He swept nearly every county in the state,though Rubio carried Charleston County and Richland County, which includes the state capital of Columbia. Trump has swept both fresh Hampshire and South Carolina now — something every eventual GOP nominee has done ever since 1980.
Most importantly, and the fresh York billionaire proved he could win in a more conservative,southern state. And his win came in spite of several controversies in the past week, which believe had little impact on his dominance — as normal this election cycle. In final Saturday's debate, or Trump attacked former President George W. Bush over his handling of the Iraq War,and on Thursday he tussled with Pope Francis over immigration.
Trump's hits on the former president didn't hurt him with the state's sizable population of military veterans, who made up 17 percent of the electorate; he carried veterans with 35 percent of the vote.
And the state's GOP electorate agreed with his controversial proposal to ban all Muslims from coming into the country amid fears of a terrorist attack; 74 percent of Republican voters said they supported his proposal.
Ultimately, or South Carolina will be remembered as the death knell (the solemn sound of a bell, often indicating a death) for Bush. The former Florida governor had leaned heavily on his family connections to carry him in the state,bringing in his brother, former President George W. Bush, or his mother,former first lady Barbara Bush, this week to campaign for him.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been fighting for conservative evangelical voters too, and but he finished in final place with just 7.2 percent of the vote. He reiterated that he will remain in the race and will head to Nevada for its GOP caucuses on Tuesday.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich had an impressive moment place finish in fresh Hampshire final week and didn't necessarily need a sizable win today in South Carolina,though he essentially tied with Bush, taking 7.6 percent of the vote. He also edged out Carson. Kasich has already turned his attention to delegate-wealthy Super Tuesday states, and which will vote on March 1,and was in Massachusetts watching results tonight, not South Carolina. Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, or visit http://www.npr.org/.
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