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ELECTIONS 2016: THE S.C. REPUBLICAN PRIMARY 32.5% 22.5% 22.3% 7.9% 7.6% 7.2% JEB Trump cheers ‘beautiful’ SC win

TRACY GLANTZ [email protected] Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump thanks with family members during his watch party Saturday at the Spartanburg Marriott Heritage Ballroom.

How billionaire won GOP PRIMARY Primary voters turn their backs RESULTS on ‘establishment’ candidates the SC GOP primary 2,230 of 2,239 precincts - 99.6 percent the GOP race was down to three In a state where religion and BY JAMIE SELF candidates. BY ANDREW SHAIN civility matter, the DONALD TRUMP [email protected] Ohio Gov. John Kasich, form- [email protected] billionaire admitted he never 238,173 - 32.5 percent er Gov. and has asked God for forgiveness, Republican Donald Trump’s retired neurosurgeon Ben Car- Donald Trump kept on doing called rivals “liars” and “idiots,” MARCO RUBIO boisterous throngs of S.C. sup- son trailed in the race’s bottom and saying the wrong things for and used a vulgarity during a 164,770 - 22.5 percent porters sent a resounding mes- tier. someone trying to win the S.C. rally. sage Saturday to South Car- Trump’s denunciation of the Republican primary. None of those foibles mat- TED CRUZ olina’s political elite – we don’t Republican establishment res- He spitefully gave out U.S. tered. Donald Trump was the 163,818 - 22.3 percent want your establishment candi- onated with S.C. Republicans. Sen. ’s cell- answer to S.C. voters’ biggest dates. Bush, one of the favorites of phone number during a Bluffton concern: Who will make me feel JEB BUSH The onetime reality TV star the S.C. GOP, suspended his rally in July. He suggested a ban safe? 57,496 - 7.9 percent with populist appeal handily campaign after finishing a dis- on Muslims entering the country Among the remaining GOP beat U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and appointing fourth. Bush inher- before a Pearl Harbor Day event candidates, S.C. Republican JOHN KASICH Marco Rubio in ’s Re- ited U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s at Patriots Point in December. voters said the political novice 55,942 - 7.6 percent publican presidential primary. backing and many of his sup- He criticized former President was the most likely to keep their Rubio and Cruz nearly tied for porters after the Seneca Repub- George W. Bush’s role in the family safe and to be feared by BEN CARSON second place. With 99 percent lican abandoned his own long- War during the presidential U.S. enemies, according to a 53.005 - 7.2 percent of the vote reported, Rubio led shot presidential campaign in debate in Greenville last week- Cruz by roughly 1,000 votes. end. SEE TRUMP, 12A Both declared victory, saying SEE PRIMARY, 14A

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WINNERS AND LOSERS AFTER SOUTH THE JIM DEMINT INSIDE THE CRUZ COUNTY-BY-COUNTY THESTATE.COM The winners – ? CAROLINA PRIMARY CAMPAIGN RESULTS Updates during the day – and losers – Lindsey Where the six GOP He resigned from the A look inside Ted Cruz’s Did your county go for Sunday on the fallout from Graham? – in Saturday’s presidential campaigns are Senate, but Jim “The acclaimed get-out-the-vote Trump? Or Cruz? Or Rubio? Saturday’s GOP contest S.C. GOP primary, 9A headed after the S.C. Godfather” DeMint’s ground game and how it County-by-county results and Nevada’s Democratic primary; for some, it’s fingerprints were all over operated in South Carolina, from Saturday’s primary, caucus home, 9A Saturday’s contest, 10A 11A 9A

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