The 2016 South Carolina Primary: Where will we go? Where are we going? How do we know if a candidate is elected to represent South Carolina?
The primary is locally run at the county level and ultimately certified by South Carolina’s State Election Commission. The polls are open from 7 a.m to 7 pm.
She has yet to win a presidential contest. In South Carolina polls show her lagging behind Donald Trump, who is the party’s front-runner throughout the entire race.
There are four distinct political regions: the Lowcountry, Pee Dee, the Midlands and the Upstate. In the 2016 presidential election Trump won the primary with 32.5% of the votes, and he won all but two of the state’s 46 counties. He narrowly lost Charleston County (Lowcountry) and Richland County (Midlands), which is home to Columbia, the state capital.
Haley is poised to spend her own money. She’s announced a seven-figure ad buy ahead of Super Tuesday and she’s also vowed to continue campaigning regardless of what happens in her home state.
Haley’s team points out that, like New Hampshire, independents are allowed to vote in South Carolina’s primary. In South Carolina, where the GOP primary is held, only a small percentage of voters were Republicans.
In Iowa, 82% of caucusgoers identified as Republicans, and Trump won there by 30 percentage points. In New Hampshire, 50% of primary voters identified as Republicans, and there he won by 11 points.
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She said she would continue campaigning until the last vote is cast. She later told NPR she would stay in though at least Super Tuesday, which is on March 5.
“I haven’t actually sat down and thought about what comes after that,” Haley said. We wanted people’s voices to be heard if we were to win South Carolina, and another 20 states have voted so far.
The diner is often a hub for local activity, hosting events for politicians including Haley in the past. Today is a construction zone, as the town tries to recover from a tornado that tore through in January.
Dyches says the restaurant flooded and the roof blew off. But she was happy to host a few residents from the area, who gathered around a table to talk about Haley’s last push before the primary.
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Sharon Carter, who invited the group, is chairwoman of the Bamberg County Republican Party. As such, she can’t officially endorse any candidate in the state’s primary on Saturday.
Carter was astonished that people were choosing Trump in her hometown. “Because people who do know her know that she’s an authentically real person.”
Boyce says Haley – who’s also a former ambassador to the United Nations – was a good governor for South Carolina during the six years she led the state.
But Boyce opposed her work to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse in 2015, in the aftermath of the racist shooting that left nine people dead at a historically Black church in Charleston.
“I’m as Southern as you get,” he said. It’s a thing of the past. And it stood for, whether you like to hear it or not, it stood for slavery. It stood for racism. It stood for the division of our country.
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Crosby-Lee was stopping by a local lunch spot on Thursday with her mother, who still lives nearby. She hopes that Haley would give more to the town’s economy. But she sees value in Haley continuing her campaign, even if she can’t ultimately beat Trump.
Mary Jane remembers Haley as a “well-mannered” child who became an “amazing young lady” who’s made her home state proud. She is contrasting Haley’s temperament with Trump’s.
She says that he did some good things for America but was also a bully. “And well, he does not have any characteristics that we want any of our grandchildren to have.”
Mary Jane Maxwell says she has supported Trump in the past, but she doesn’t think she could vote for him again. Randy Maxwell says he’s never voted for Trump and never will.
It will not look good for her. “It will not look good for any candidate if you don’t win your home state. They are not going to change because Trump has so much base.