Nikki Haley Lost Her Home State. The Entire Primary Is Next.

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68% : With a strong enough performance, Trump could mathematically clinch the nomination that night.
64% : Shortly after polls closed on Saturday evening, the Associated Press projected Trump as the winner.
58% : In a recent campaign memo, Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles outlined what they argued was a generous case for Haley's near future where she would still lose the nomination by March 19 if the Super Tuesday states all replicated her performance in New Hampshire.
49% : "Now, if we ignore this model and follow what the current data -- both public and private -- suggests, President Trump will win the Republican nomination one week earlier, on March 12, with 1,223 Delegates," Wiles and LaCivita wrote.
44% : Well Before 2024While Haley has pledged to remain in the race at least until March 5 -- when 16 GOP primary contests will be held -- the South Carolina result further solidifies what has been clear for weeks: that Trump will again be the party's nominee for president.
44% : "Which is all to say, before March Madness tips off next month, President Trump will be the Republican nominee for President.
44% : "As for whether Haley will have made the right call by sticking through the primary to make a broader point about how much Trump has corroded the GOP, that may have to wait until long after the confetti clears from the college basketball tournament.There's one scenario which could make Haley look prescient in her decisionmaking: the GOP getting trounced almost as badly Election Day in November as she did on primary day in South Carolina.
36% : Though Haley energetically canvassed her home state in the lead-up to the primary, Trump still trounced her despite campaigning minimally beyond a smattering of rallies.
36% : Trump's RNC Takeover Is on the Brink of Becoming a 'Purge'Haley insisted her goal in the South Carolina primary was to improve upon her result in New Hampshire, which was always going to be a steep task given that state's larger share of independent voters and higher share of Republicans who disapprove of Trump.
31% : But for Trump and the campaign -- who themselves insisted the race was already over by the Iowa caucus -- beating Haley in South Carolina was less about the path to the nomination and more about a personal quest to destroy her political future right where her ascent began.
29% : Nearly the entire South Carolina GOP apparatus lined up for Trump, and even former allies turned against her.
27% : In fact, Haley seemed to embrace the hate from Trump and his supporters.
25% : "It is a huge, significant miscalculation that I'm sure she's aware of," the former Trump official said of Haley burning bridges with Trump.
23% : "Two high profile South Carolina Republicans whom Haley had previously backed and campaigned for, Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Nancy Mace, both ended up endorsing Trump and stumping for him in the home stretch of the primary.
21% : "But Haley's home state made clear that GOP voters do not really want the choice before them and are ready to back Trump into the general election.
8% : The state that launched Nikki Haley to national prominence over a decade ago dealt an embarrassing -- and potentially lethal -- blow to her campaign for president on Saturday.As expected, the former governor of South Carolina was resoundingly defeated by Donald Trump in her home state's primary election.

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