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*** Election Night Livewire *** Trump Looks for Blowout Against Haley in Her Home State of South Carolina

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Former President Donald Trump, the leading GOP candidate for president and likely GOP nominee, looks to continue his perfect streak on Saturday night in the Palmetto State with a blowout victory over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in her home state.

Any loss for Haley would be utterly embarrassing, as she served for years as governor of South Carolina before joining Trump’s administration as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But polling in recent weeks suggests Trump could be headed for a landslide victory, one that would come on the heels of wins a month ago in both Iowa’s caucuses and New Hampshire’s primaries.

Haley’s team is desperate to project some kind of a pathway out of South Carolina, vowing she will fight on through at least Super Tuesday. But a loss here could be the end of the road for her and make staying in the campaign even more difficult. In a contested GOP presidential primary, no candidate in modern history has ever won all three of the first major contests–Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina–so Trump would set a new record to add to his many with a win on Saturday. Trump also won the Nevada GOP cancuses because he ran essentially uncontested there after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out post-Iowa and endorsed Trump.

The Haley campaign says it is launching ads on television in Super Tuesday states to try to project strength, even in the face of expected embarrassment on Saturday. As the map expands beyond the early states from here, too, Trump is beginning to eye possibly mathematically eliminating Haley from contention as soon as mid-March, if he can keep this winning streak going. As soon as Haley finally drops out of the race–she has no pathway to the nomination at this stage, so continuing to run is futile anyway–Trump will formally become the presumptive nominee ahead of the GOP convention, which is scheduled to take place in Milwaukee in July. The GOP convention is where he will formally become the GOP nominee for president again for the third straight election.

Polls close in South Carolina at 7:00 p.m. ET, and results are expected soon after. Follow along here on Breitbart News for live updates with results and analysis throughout the evening.

UPDATE 7:45 p.m. ET:

From here, the calendar intensifies in terms of the pace–next week, Michigan has a primary on Tuesday and then caucuses the following Saturday. Delegates will be awarded out of each contest in Michigan. Also next Saturday are caucuses in Idaho and Missouri, both of which award delegates. The following day, Sunday March 3, will see the District of Columbia primary and then on Monday March 4 North Dakota will hold its GOP caucuses. Super Tuesday–which will see votes from Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and American Samoa–is on Tuesday March 5.

UPDATE 7:38 p.m. ET:

While it’s still early in the evening, it’s actually possible that Trump completely edges Haley out and wins every single delegate from South Carolina this evening. If that happens, it’s a massive embarrassment for her even worse than simply losing her home state. South Carolina awards its delegates proportionally by congressional district, and it’s currently actually possible if not likely that Trump totally sweeps the whole state and absolutely demolishes Haley.

UPDATE 7:34 p.m. ET:

Haley is expected to speak soon. Whether she remains as divorced from reality as she was a month ago in New Hampshire will be revealed shortly.

UPDATE 7:33 p.m. ET:

Trump at 92 delegates leads Haley’s 17 delegates and DeSantis’s 9 delegates nationally. The pathway for Haley from here is essentially nonexistent. She could mathematically eliminated from contention by early to mid March.

UPDATE 7:25 p.m. ET:

Calls are now growing for Haley to actually drop out of the race given the fact she has zero chance of winning the nomination:

UPDATE 7:21 p.m. ET:

It’s notable that Trump spoke before Haley right after the race was called, a difference from New Hampshire where he let her go first. There, she gave a totally unhinged rant where she made it seem like she didn’t get roundly defeated. What Haley says on Saturday night after this absolute blowout loss remains to be seen.

The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman noticed this too:

UPDATE 7:17 p.m. ET:

Next up is Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who says that the “nightmare” America is facing is “almost over,” and that “help is on the way” with Trump on his way back to the White House.

UPDATE 7:15 p.m. ET:

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is speaking now, and he asks the crowd if South Carolina is “Trump Country” to which the crowd responded enthusiastically.

UPDATE 7:14 p.m. ET:

Trump had Gov. Henry McMaster speak, and McMaster compared Trump’s South Carolina win to a rocket ship launching into space. “We just hit maximum velocity,” McMaster said.

UPDATE 7:11 p.m. ET:

Trump is saying that this win is so big and the energy behind his campaign this year is bigger than even previous campaigns he’s run in 2016 and 2020.

“Now, there’s a spirit that there’s never been,” Trump said, adding that “I have never seen the Republican Party so unified” than it is now behind him.

He urged supporters to celebrate for “15 minutes, then get back to work” pointing to upcoming contests in states like Michigan. Trump is also thanking his family members as well.

“We’re going to be up here on Nov. 5, and we’re going to look at Joe Biden… and we’re going to say ‘Joe, you’re fired,’” Trump said, adding that November is so far away he wishes it could come faster.

UPDATE 7:07 p.m. ET:

Trump has taken the stage to address supporters in South Carolina, saying his victory is a “bigger win than even expected.”

Trump is ripping the open border under Democrat President Joe Biden. “The border is the worst it’s ever been,” Trump said.

UPDATE 7:03 p.m. ET:

The polls just closed in South Carolina and Donald Trump has been declared the winner before any votes were even counted given the exit polling:

This means this is a landslide blowout victory for Trump.

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