Trump gets GOP primary win in Haley’s home state of South Carolina
Former President Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley in her home-state South Carolina primary, NBC News projects.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former President Donald Trump won a resounding victory in South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary on Saturday, NBC News projects, continuing a winning streak through each Republican nominating contest so far — and putting him in position to potentially clinch the party’s presidential nomination within the next month.
Defeat for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is a blow in her home state. A total of 50 delegates were on the line in Saturday’s contest, which are split between the statewide winner and the winner of each congressional district.
And Trump’s dominant performance throughout the state allowed him to win nearly all of them, though Haley grabbed three delegates from South Carolina's Charleston-based 1st Congressional District, NBC News projects.
Trump won statewide by about 20 points over Haley.
With his victory on Saturday, the former president now looks to be cruising to the party’s presidential nomination despite being criminally charged in four separate jurisdictions and subject to hundreds of millions of dollars in civil penalties. He could reach the necessary 1,215 delegates to clinch by mid-March, with a number of states holding de facto winner-take-all primaries on Super Tuesday (March 5) and more following after that.
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