Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday secured victory over Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the United Nations, in South Carolina’s Republican primary, advancing a step closer to a potential face-off with incumbent Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election in November. Despite her aspirations to regain momentum after three losses in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Haley — South Carolina’s first female governor from 2011 to 2017 — got roughly 40 percent of the vote, trailing Trump by approximately 20 percentage points. As Trump and Haley traverse the primary landscape, vying for the Republican presidential nomination state by …read more
Source:: SL Guardian English