Posted on 02/23/2016 12:57:07 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Donald Trump romped to an easy win in the South Carolina primary by being "ruthlessly honest" and reassembling the coalition of voters that gave Ronald Reagan two landslide presidential wins. That's the analysis of former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Van Hipp, who is also the author of "The New Terrorism: How to Fight It and Defeat It."
On Saturday, Trump claimed all 50 Republican delegates at stake by winning statewide and in each of the Palmetto State's congressional districts. Trump scored more than 32 percent of the vote. Marco Rubio edged Ted Cruz for second, but both were 10 points behind Trump. The rest of the field finished much lower, leading Jeb Bush to end his campaign after coming in a distant fourth place.
Trump defied expectations through the campaign in South Carolina, even winning a plurality of the evangelical vote. The state is staunchly conservative, and Trump's conservative bona fides are regularly questioned. So how did he win so convincingly?
"He won it not only with evangelicals but with national security conservatives and with economic conservatives," Hipp told WND and Radio America. "These folks may have been angry, but it looks a whole lot like the old Reagan coalition.
"He's connecting with these people and, whether you agree with him or not, regardless of whether you're for someone else, you've got to look at how he did it. He's bringing new people into the Republican Party. He's bringing in the old independents and the Reagan Democrats."
Cruz was banking heavily on not only winning but dominating the evangelical vote. Instead, more than 30 percent went with Trump, who has publicly stated he has never asked God for forgiveness.
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just not keen on partying with the elites who don't speak their language. GoTRiUMPh
Wait, didn’t Party wags say the same thing about Romney’s bid for the presidency in 2012?
Deuteronomy 23:17 - There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
BOOM!!! GO TRUMP!!!
“Donald Trump has done more to forward conservative principles in America in 6 months than an entire political party has done in 20 years.”
Well said.
New people=progressives. Big deal.
Whose conservative principles? Those of Rotten Clinton, Schumer, Reid and Pelosi?
More great news... Thanks for posting Captain...
âDonald Trump has done more to forward conservative principles in America in 6 months than an entire political party has done in 20 years.â
Well said.
Ditto.
Fabulous explanation, actually, sort of the iconic movie "who ya' gonna' call?...." and we all know the answer.
Ah the bitter enders.
No, the people who know that Trump is a fraud based upon his contributions and past positions. If he becomes president, he will still be a phony and a punk.
Wait until the waves of independents who were for decades so betrayed and disenfranchised by the federation of frauds in D.C. they just stopped voting. Now they see a chance to strike back.
It’s coming like a tsunami.
Facebook clickbait is where it came from.
Trump Is Not A Liberal or Conservative, He's A Pragmatist
well at least for the primaries.
Yet the Republican Establishment continues to fret that a Trump nomination would guarantee defeat.
Reagan winning with Reagan Democrats = good.
Trump winning with Trump Democrats = bad.
Amen. If Cruz somehow gets the nomination, Hillary will treat him as a speedbump on the way to the presidency.
Trump, warts and all, is the only one who can pull in voters from across the pist-off-at-the-establishment spectrum. As you say, once he's in, then the really hard work starts.
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