Key takeaways from Trump's big win over Nikki Haley in South Carolina
Donald Trump is hoping to use a sizeable victory in South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday to convince rival Nikki Haley to drop out of the presidential race. While the outcome is expected to put Trump even closer to clinching the party's nomination, Haley has vowed to press on.
Here are some takeaways from the South Carolina primary:
BORDER BASH
Exit polls conducted by Edison Research on Saturday made one thing clear: Trump has boxed out Haley on the issue of immigration and border security.
That mattered in South Carolina, where 41% of voters listed immigration as their top priority. Of those voters, 83% backed Trump and just 16% supported Haley. And of the 70% of voters who believe undocumented immigrants should be deported to their countries of origin, 77% voted for Trump.
At campaign events, Haley has argued that she, too, takes a hard line on immigration, but Republicans don't seem to be buying it. Trump's campaign this week released a TV ad titled «Weakness» that claimed Haley opposed Trump's so-called Muslim «travel ban» during his administration and questioned the need for a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
The site FactCheck.org called the Trump ad misleading, noting that Haley has been supportive of a wall, but she would have favored a more narrowly tailored ban than the one Trump instituted.
Regardless, Trump's attacks seem to have stuck, which does not auger well for Haley's prospects in a party increasingly consumed by the
