Donald Trump secured a convincing victory in South Carolina on Saturday, sending a warning message to Nikki Haley’s losing campaign: Even in your state, the Republican Party wants me.
The primary vote set Haley up for defeat in her state’s Republican primary, which led to the election of 50 delegates. Trump automatically gets 29 delegates for winning the state’s overall vote, and the remaining delegates are allocated in groups of three depending on who wins each congressional district.
Haley, who served as South Carolina’s first governor from 2011 to 2017, has yet to win the 2024 primary. But she claims only four states have voted so far — and in one of those contests, she was kicked out of receiving delegates.
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“I’m not going anywhere,” Haley said during a televised speech Tuesday, pledging to stay in the race regardless of her performance in South Carolina. “People have the right to have their voices heard and they deserve a real election, not a Soviet-style election where there is only one candidate and he gets 99% of the vote.”
Donald Trump delivers a campaign speech accompanied by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who endorsed the former president over Nikki Haley.
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As Haley struggles to win Republican voters away from Trump, the former president has turned his priorities elsewhere: He’s currently trying to pay off more than $500 million in court fines, preparing for the start of his first criminal trial and working to settle his daughter. in-laws and other election deniers in RNC leadership before his situation worsens.
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This week, Haley criticized Trump for portraying himself as a victim, telling Republicans: “He’s going to be in court in March and April and May and June. He said himself that he’s going to spend more time in the courtroom than on the campaign trail.”
Haley recently told NBC News that there was “no way” Americans would get behind a convicted felon if his trials ended in guilty verdicts. “They didn’t.”
The next Republican primary contest will take place in Michigan on Tuesday.
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