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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