TRUMP EASILY DEFEATS NIKKI HALEY IN HER HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Sun 25 February 2024:

On Saturday, Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley once more, this time in South Carolina, the former governor’s home state.

Shortly after the polls closed at 7 p.m. local time, the Associated Press declared Trump the winner of the Republican presidential primary.

The former president won his primary opponent’s home state by a 20-point margin, his fourth consecutive victory.

As he celebrated Trump made no mention of Ms Haley, who vowed to stay in the race. Instead he set his sights on the general election in November.

That will be a likely rematch with his successor in the White House.

“We’re going to look Joe Biden right in the eye,” he told supporters minutes after US media projected him as the winner on Saturday night. “He’s destroying our country – and we’re going to say ‘get out Joe, you’re fired’.”

“This was a little sooner than we anticipated, an even bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump told reporters after the race was called.

“I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now,” said the former president. “You can celebrate for about 15 minutes, but then we have to get back to work.”

Haley, who once served as a popular two-term governor of South Carolina, congratulated her opponent on his victory in her speech.

Despite her fourth consecutive defeat to her former boss, Haley also lost in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, the former South Carolina governor, and UN ambassador under Trump said she will keep on campaigning.

“I’m not going anywhere,” said Haley. “On Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m campaigning every day until the last person votes.”

Haley has indicated that she will head straight to the state of Michigan for its primary Feb. 27, then onto the Super Tuesday contest on March 5, when the greatest number of states hold their primary elections and caucuses.

“In the 10 days after South Carolina, another 21 states and territories will vote,” said Haley. “People have a right to have their voices heard. And they deserve a real choice, not a Soviet-style election where there’s only one candidate, and he gets 99% of the vote.”

Haley raised $16.5m in January alone, campaign officials said. That was her largest monthly total so far, and much more than Trump’s numbers.

Lauding them for their support, former President Trump, reminded his audience: “We have a lot of work ahead of us.”

The former president also remains beleaguered by his many legal troubles, and faces the first of four criminal trials next month.

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