3 takeaways from the South Carolina GOP primary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : (Trump won three of four in 2016, as did Barack Obama in 2008.)
56% : For example:* Trump was already the first non-incumbent Republican candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire.
55% : Just 1 in 5 Haley voters said they would be satisfied with Trump as the nominee, and virtually the same number said Trump was physically and mentally fit to serve, according to exit polls.
51% : The most recent results show Trump leading 60 percent to 39 percent, with 75 percent of expected votes in.
39% : While about 20 percent of voters picked her and said it was mainly an affirmative vote for her, well more than 1 in 10 voted for her while saying the vote was mostly against her opponent (Trump).
36% : There are very few Haley voters who are casting Trump as a viable or acceptable alternative.
35% : The NORC analysis showed that 35 percent of voters said they would be dissatisfied with Trump as the nominee, and 21 percent said they wouldn't vote for him in the general election.
34% : * Losing your home state is rare for a major candidate who remains in the race: Think Elizabeth Warren in 2020 (finishing third in Massachusetts, 12 points behind now-President Biden) and Marco Rubio in 2016 (losing Florida to Trump by 19 points).
29% : Donald Trump has swept the traditional early states in the Republican presidential nominating contest after defeating Nikki Haley on Saturday in South Carolina.
29% : And 5 percent of voters voted for Trump but said he would be unfit if convicted.
25% : One is that 31 percent of voters said Trump wouldn't be fit to serve as president if he's convicted of a crime.
25% : At least 20 percent of voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have now said they will not vote for Trump in November.
25% : In a defiant speech signaling she'd stay in the race earlier this week, Haley noted that nearly half of voters in both Iowa and New Hampshire had voted for someone not named Trump.
25% : She suggested that was "not good" since Trump is a "de facto incumbent."
23% : And given both these numbers and the fact that Trump is on a glide path to the nomination - rendering votes for Haley something amounting to protest votes - we can effectively look at Haley's vote shares from now on as a measure of Trump holdouts in the party as much as affirmative votes for her.

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