South Carolina: Trump Posts 20 Point Victory: Despite winning a landslide victory on Saturday in his opponent’s home state, some are qualifying former President Donald Trump’s South Carolina result as an underperformance.
As polling predicted, Mr. Trump easily won the Palmetto State Republican primary in defeating former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley by a 59.8 – 39.5% margin. While Mr. Trump carried 43 of the state’s 46 counties, two of the three he did not, Charleston and Beaufort counties, are located in the 1st Congressional District (Rep. Nancy Mace-R). Her formidable margins in these two counties allowed Ms. Haley to carry the 1st District, thus awarding her three of her home state’s 50 pledged delegates. The only other county Ms. Haley carried was Richland, home to the capital city of Columbia, which is South Carolina’s most Democratic area. In Saturday’s Republican primary, 750,586 voters cast a ballot for either Mr. Trump or Ms. Haley. Though Mr. Biden posted 96% preference in the February 3rd South Carolina Democratic primary, only 131,307 Democratic primary voters participated. Four years ago, when Mr. Biden won the SC primary against six opponents, over 539,000 people voted in the Democratic primary. In 2020, Mr. Biden won the primary with virtually double the amount of votes (262,336) he received here earlier this month. Comments are closed.
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