Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Donald Trump was projected to handily win the South Carolina primary tonight, defeating his last remaining rival in the race for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley.
Haley, the former governor of the state, has stayed in the race even as pundits give her scant chance of defeating the former president.
Earlier this week, she vowed to stay in the race at least through Super Tuesday next month. She has stepped up her attacks on Trump in recent weeks, to the delight of many Democrats.
Given the polls showing him with lopsided support in the state, Trump’s victory was no surprise. And as networks revealed the results of exit poll questions in the hours before polls closed, it looked as it he had the ingredients for a blowout.
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