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easily won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on Saturday, handing Nikki Haley an embarrassing defeat in her home state and bringing him one step closer to officially becoming the GOP’s 2024 nominee for the White House.
With big wins in all the early primary states, Trump now heads into Super Tuesday on March 5 ― when voters in 15 states and one U.S. territory go to the polls ― with a commanding delegate lead. His campaign expects to have the nomination locked up as early as March 12, even as he faces an unprecedented 91 criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn an election that he lost and his retention of classified information after he left the White House.
“Donald Trump is siding with a man who’s made no bones about the fact he wants to destroy America,” Haley said at a rally in Georgetown, South Carolina, on Thursday.who opposed Trump and who believed that he was setting the GOP on an ugly path, but it was a segment of the party that has long since been shunned as a minority that is fading into the past.
Trump on Friday suggested that Haley should perhaps become a Democrat, criticizing her for receiving donations from some in the opposing party. Would you join us to help keep our stories free for all? Your contribution of as little as $2 will go a long way.
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