Who Won South Carolina
The short answer: Nobody. Nikki Haley lost by failing to get 40% of the vote in her home State, essentially sealing the tomb on her obviously lost campaign for President. But Trump lost just as badly. The absolute leader and dictator of his party, running (in Republicans' minds) as an incumbent, couldn't get 60% of his own party's vote. Regardless of the in-the-tank-for-Republicans reporting in the mainstream press, this is not a crushing victory by Trump, but in fact a humiliating repudiation. Contrast that outcome to a real winner, Joe Biden, who got 96% of the Democratic vote. The truth is that Trump can barely win an election in his own party. Of course, the press will go on declaring him to be a mighty colossus, striding toward victory, because that is what the rich owners of the press want to happen. But the truth remains: this is a character who, barring massive vote rigging in November, appears to be riding toward an in...