Trump wins SC, beating Haley in her home state

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89% : A 2020 general rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden is becoming increasingly inevitable.
55% : The survey confirms the findings of pre-Election Day polls showing Trump far outpacing Haley statewide.South Carolina's first-in-the-South primary has historically been a reliable bellwether for Republicans.
53% : Donald Trump won South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday, beating former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in her home state and further consolidating his path to a third straight GOP nomination.
47% : But it's unclear how she can top Trump from clinching enough delegates to become the party's presumptive nominee for the third time.
46% : Trump has now swept every contest that counted for Republican delegates, with wins already in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
43% : Napa County releases information it is providing to federal investigators New hotel planned for Napa's former Red Hen restaurant site Costco, RiverSound home construction underway at former Napa Pipe Police: Two teenagers face attempted murder allegations after gang-related shooting in Napa St. Helena's Crisp Kitchen & Juice closing Saturday Owners of illegal Napa vacation home rentals to pay $500,000 settlement to county Dogs up for adoption in St. Helena after being rescued from 'hoarding' conditions in American Canyon Federal subpoena issued to Napa County Farm Bureau's political action committee U.S. Department of Justice seeks Napa County records on airport, Clover Flat landfill, Vinedos Ribbon-cutting celebrates St. Helena's Orin Swift tasting room Major funders of Farm Bureau's PAC named in federal subpoenas Flood and wind alerts continue in Napa; here's the weather forecast Man arrested in connection with St. Helena retail thefts Napa recovery homes sold, again, to sober living nonprofit Mother of Kayleigh Slusher, boyfriend to be resentenced for girl's 2014 deathThe Associated Press declared Trump the winner as polls closed statewide at 7 p.m.The AP based its race call on an analysis of AP VoteCast, a comprehensive survey of Republican South Carolina primary voters.
42% : But South Carolina's Republican voters line up with Trump on having lukewarm feelings about NATO and continued U.S. support for Ukraine, according to AP VoteCast data from Saturday's primary.
33% : He's called Trump and his "Make America Great Again" movement dire threats to the nation's founding principles, and the president's reelection campaign lately focused most of its attention on Trump suggesting he'd use the first day of a second presidency as a dictator and that he'd tell Russia to attack NATO allies who fail to keep up with defense spending obligations mandated by the alliance.
27% : Biden stepped up his recent fundraising trips around the country and increasingly attacked Trump directly.
25% : Trump also repeatedly attacked Biden over high inflation earlier in the president's term and his handling of record-high migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.
21% : The former president's latest victory will likely increase pressure on Haley, who was Trump's former representative to the United Nations and South Carolina governor from 2011 to 2017, to leave the race.
14% : Haley has vowed to stay in the race through at least the batch of primaries on March 5, known as Super Tuesday, but was unable to dent Trump's momentum in her home state despite holding far more campaign events and arguing that the indictments against Trump will hamstring him against Biden.
14% : Trump and Biden are already behaving like they expect to face off in November.
14% : Trump and his allies argue Biden has made the U.S. weaker and point to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia's decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
14% : Haley also criticized Trump on his NATO comments and also for questioning why her husband wasn't on the campaign trail with her -- even as former first lady Melania Trump hasn't appeared with him.
8% : Trump questioned -- often in harshly personal terms -- whether the 81-year-old Biden is too old to serve a second term.

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