Trump wins South Carolina primary, Clinton triumphs in Nevada

By Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press

This could be the day everyone starts using the F-word to describe Donald Trump. And that people feel safer using it again to describe Hillary Clinton.

Frontrunner.

Voters cast ballots Saturday in two races that could shape the U.S. presidential primaries leading into Super Tuesday – Republicans voted in South Carolina, and Democrats in Nevada.

Trump won the South Carolina Republican primary, a second-straight victory for the billionaire real estate mogul after his first-place finish in New Hampshire.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are in close race for second.

Exit polls taken in South Carolina found that about three-quarters of Republican voters support a temporary ban on Muslims who are not American citizens from entering the United States. That’s one of Trump’s signature proposals.

A majority of voters looking for an outsider candidate supported Trump, providing a boost to the first-time candidate for office.

Clinton staved off what would have been a devastating loss to Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who has put up a surprisingly strong challenge and threatens to eclipse her.

The former secretary of state clung to a four-percentage-point lead in the initial results in Nevada – not nearly the advantage she once had in polls, but perhaps enough to quash talk of a campaign death-spiral.

“To everyone who turned out in every corner of Nevada with determination and heart: This is your win,” Clinton tweeted.

“Thank you.”

 

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