Donald Trump won a projected victory in the South Carolina GOP primary.
When the polls first closed at 7 p.m. after the primaries, the race between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio was deemed “too close to call.”
With 12 percent of precincts reporting, Trump had 35% of the vote, Marco Rubio had 22.5 percent, Ted Cruz had 18 percent, and Jeb Bush had 12 percent.
Voting proceeded smoothly across most of the state, which experienced a record number of absentee ballots. About 59,000 absentee ballots have been returned, compared to 27,000 four years ago.
Trump’s campaign had been cautiously downplaying expectations in the primaries, even though polling showed him leading by a wide margin (and rival campaigns expected him to win).
In an interview with CNN’s Sara Murray, Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said he’s predicting a tight race, albeit one that could draw record turnout. He says the campaign only needs to win by one vote, but ideally they’ll win by one vote in each congressional district to vacuum up as many delegates as possible.
Lewandowski has been hammering volunteers and staffers to keep fighting to the finish and work as hard as Trump, who has had a busier schedule than usual in the run-up to the Palmetto State primary.
“I’m not a slave driver, but too many people rest on their laurels,” Lewandowski said. “I’ve said to our guys, ‘Look, my boss works 20 hours a day. I don’t expect you to work more, but I don’t expect you to work less.’”
A Ted Cruz campaign adviser believed they would come in a strong second, a goal from the start, which Cruz will celebrate as a “win.”
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