After also winning Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump has 113 delegates, compared to 17 for Haley. March 5 will be ‘Super Tuesday’, with 800 delegates from 16 states being distributed.
Last Saturday, former President Donald Trump handed Nikki Haley the most humiliating defeat in the Republican Party’s primaries. He won by nearly 20 points at home in South Carolina, where Haley was born, raised and served as governor in 2011. 2017.
These results make a repeat of a matchup between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, like the one in the 2020 election, all but inevitable. Haley hasn’t thrown in the towel yet.
According to partial counts from various media, Trump won in almost all counties in the state, with the exception of the two largest cities, the capital Columbia and the coastal region of Charleston. Even in Bamberg County, Haley’s hometown, Trump won.
These results, with minor differences, give 60% of the votes to Trump and 40% to Haley. Under South Carolina’s electoral system, this state is a winner-take-all, meaning the 50 delegates the state contributes to the Republican Convention starting July 15 will name the candidate who will officially face Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump did not want to draw blood in his initial statements, in which he did not even mention Haley by name, but he thanked South Carolina for its results in a brief appearance at his campaign party in the state capital of Columbia.
For her part, Haley waited almost two hours before announcing that she is not retiring because she is “a woman of her word” and feels she has “the obligation” to give voters the right to have an option other than ‘Biden vs. Trump’a binomial that she says 70% of Americans disapprove of.
Waiting for ‘Super Tuesday’
Trump has already won the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, while Haley has not won in either; Even in Nevada, where Trump was not running, the box most marked by voters was not his, but that of those who preferred “none of these candidates.”
Until today, Trump had 63 delegates to Haley’s 17; With today’s victory, Trump can add another fifty to his total.
It is true that this number of delegates is still very small compared to the 2,429 who will vote at the Republican Convention in June; is on the so-called ‘Super Tuesday’ (the next March 5th) when the fate of more than 800 delegates in 16 states will be decided, which is why Haley had promised to arrive at least until that date.
Source: EITB
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