Donald Trump hopes to win by a landslide this Saturday in South CarolinaNikki Haley's home state, in a crucial Republican primary in the race to the White House.
“We need your vote to save the United States,” said the former president to mobilize voters in this state in the southeast of the country.
Despite his legal problems, Donald Trump, 77, is the big favorite in the race for the Republican nomination, which will designate a candidate for the November presidential elections.
The former businessman has already won the first three primaries of his party, during which a good part of his opponents threw in the towel. Nikki Haley, 52, is the only one still standing in her way.
She also called on voters to go to the polls en masse. “Everyone should go vote,” she said, convinced that a “new generation of conservative leaders” is needed.
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Campaign posters for Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump.
Its premise is simple: “We will not survive four more years of Trump's chaos.”
This Saturday a new controversy has arisen. Trump suggested that his judicial problems make African Americans sympathetic to his candidacy.
“Black people like me because they have been hurt a lot and discriminated against, and in fact they see me as if they were discriminating against me,” he said.
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Some comments that Haley considers “disgusting.” “It's disgusting. But that's what happens when you go off the teleprompter. That's the chaos that's coming with Donald Trump,” she said at a polling station.
Democrats were also shocked, due to the parallels between African Americans and crime.
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US Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
After Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, The duel moves to South Carolina, a state of which Nikki Haley was governor for six years.
This Saturday we will know if he has any chance of winning, when polls place her almost 30 points away from Trump.
In Jeff and Susan Stottler's marriage, everyone voted for their side, which lends itself to “jokes.”
He chose the former president. “I trust that Donald Trump will reverse everything that Joe Biden has done to get us into the economic and immigration mess we are in,” declared the 61-year-old banker.
His wife, 60, has checked Haley's box, although she believes her rival will win.
“I'm ready for a woman (president) and a different perspective,” she says. “By voting for her, I hope he chooses her as his running mate.”
In recent days, tens of thousands of voters opted for early voting.
The first results will be known at 7:00 p.m. local time.
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Former president and candidate for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump.
There is a lot at stake in these primaries. “If Trump is able to defeat former Governor Nikki Haley in her home state, that would probably make him a near-certain candidate for the Republican Party nomination,” explains David Darmofal, a political scientist at the University of South Carolina.
With everything, On Tuesday, Haley ruled out the idea of giving up after these primaries because “it would be the easy way out.”
Trump and Haley are expected to face off Tuesday in Michigan as well.
Republicans in Idaho and Missouri will vote on March 2 and those in North Dakota on the 4th, but the most important date on the political calendar of the year is March 5, when the famous Super Tuesday is celebrated.
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If Trump is able to defeat former Gov. Nikki Haley in his home state, that would likely make him a near-sure candidate.
That day, fifteen states, including Texas, California, Colorado and Virginia, will go to the polls simultaneously on a major election day.
In theory The primaries could last until July, but Donald Trump's team foresees a victory no later than “March 19.”
Trump wants to project himself as soon as possible in his revenge against Joe Biden, the Democratic president who is running for re-election, before being submerged by serial accusations that will force him to alternate rallies with the courts.
His first criminal trial begins on March 25.
AFP
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