Former US President Donald Trump swept the home state of his challenger, Nikki Haley, who saw this territory as her most plausible hope of defeating the poll favorite to compete for the Republican Party for the White House in November. Haley had repeatedly said that regardless of the outcome, she would remain in the race.
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In less than half an hour after the polls closed (at 7:00 p.m. local time), there was already a clear winner. According to the AP agency's count, Donald Trump, with just under 14% of the tallies counted, amassed more than 57% of the votes in South Carolina, Nikki Haley's home state and of which she was governor between 2011 and 2017. .
Haley had placed her hopes in this territory that saw her grow, with marathon days of political rallies in the previous days, but the voters agreed with the polls, which predicted Trump as the winner of the state, one who always, except for one time in 2012, he was right in choosing the Republican candidate for the presidential election.
The former United States ambassador to the United Nations is the only Republican, of the 14 who began the race to be the conservative party's nominee for the presidential elections, who continues to stand against Trump and in recent days has fervently repeated that whatever the result in his state, the fight against the New York magnate would continue.
Trump, for his part, emerges undefeated from this race, his fourth of the season, after having equally swept Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
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