It was obvious that Donald Trump would win the South Carolina Republican Primary tonight. Polls are never that far off. Still, it’s a shocking result. In the build-up to the vote, Trump did almost everything a Republican candidate is not meant to do: he blamed George W. Bush for 9/11, he spoke well of Planned Parenthood, he came out in support of a healthcare mandate, and picked a fight with the Pope. And he still barnstormed the Palmetto state.
The news of the night is Marco Rubio, who scraped second place. He now looks like the only hope of stopping Trump. There will be a strong establishment and GOP donor push to try to ensure that he mops up votes from the rest of the field in order to take down Trump. Rubio will now outspend Trump in every state, and, with Jeb gone, he should have the might of the party machine and mainfold endorsements behind him.
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