Trump Continues to Do Poorly in Republican Caucuses and Primaries
Don’t fall for the media hoopla. In fact, Donald Trump is doing extraordinarily poorly in the Republican primaries and caucuses.
In Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary, he pulled in just 59.8% of the vote. Nikki Haley got 39.5%.
If Joe Biden had gotten less than 60% of the vote in a Democratic primary, the mainstream media would declare his reelection campaign in dire straits.
Trump’s reelection campaign is in dire straits.
In 1992, Patrick Buchanan won 40% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, holding George H.W. Bush to 58% — almost exactly what Haley did to Trump on Saturday. The New York Times treated the outcome as a huge problem for Bush, with the headline “BUSH JARRED IN FIRST PRIMARY” followed by a story characterizing the result as “a roar of anger” toward Bush from Republican primary voters.
South Carolina’s result was just as much a “roar of anger” from Republican primary voters toward Trump.
And South Carolina is about as deep red as it gets.
In the New Hampshire primary, Trump got 54.3% of the vote; Haley, 43.2%. In Iowa, Trump got just 56,260 votes. There are 2,083,979 registered voters in Iowa. Hence, fewer than 3% of Iowans voted for him.
So why isn’t the mainstream media telling us how badly Trump is doing instead of saying he has the nomination “sewn up?”
Of course he has it sewn up. He’s the Republican incumbent, not because he claims to have won in 2020 but because he is in fact the most recent Republican president — and he’s running for reelection.
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