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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Donald Trump easily defeated Nikki Haley in South Carolina\u2019s Republican contest on Saturday, extending his winning streak as he marches toward a third consecutive presidential nomination and a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n The former president had been widely favored to win the Southern state, despite his litany of criminal charges and Haley\u2019s status as a native of South Carolina who won two terms as governor.<\/p>\n The big win will bolster calls from Trump\u2019s allies that Haley, his last remaining challenger, should drop out of the race. But Haley, who appeared to have outperformed expectations based on opinion polls, again defiantly insisted she would fight on at least through Super Tuesday on March 5, when Republicans in 15 states and one US territory will cast ballots.<\/p>\n Trump was leading 59.9 percent to 39.4 percent, a margin of 20.5 percentage points, with about 92 percent of the expected vote tallied, according to Edison Research. Statewide opinion polls prior to Saturday had given Trump an average lead of 27.6 percentage points, according to the tracking website 538.<\/p>\n \u201cForty percent is not some tiny group,\u201d Haley said, referring to her approximate share of the vote on Saturday. \u201cThere are huge numbers of voters in our Republican primaries who are saying they want an alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has now dominated all five contests thus far — in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, the US Virgin Islands, and now Haley\u2019s home state — leaving her with no evident path to the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n Trump gave his victory speech in Columbia, the state capital just minutes after the polls closed at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT), and didn\u2019t mention Haley once, claiming his party\u2019s mantle as he looked ahead to November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 Donald Trump easily defeated Nikki Haley in South Carolina\u2019s Republican contest on Saturday, extending his winning streak as he marches toward a third consecutive presidential nomination and a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. The former president had been widely favored to win the Southern state, despite his litany …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14908,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions\/14908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}