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The Republican National Convention will take place here in Milwaukee on July 15. As a cheesehead and lifelong Republican, I should be elated.

Instead, I dont know what to feel. I voted for Donald Trump before, but this time our nominee is a convicted felon. The Republican Party I grew up with stood for law and order. We prided ourselves on being the rule of law party and championed personal accountability. Now, all of our morals have been replaced with lies.

And all of these lies stem from Trump.

Those lies started well before my breaking point, which began when he denied the results of the 2020 election. Every election has some degree of variability. Mistakes happen. But no one has found any proof that there was enough fraud to change the results of the election in even one county, much less the whole country. When Trump knowingly lied to his supporters that the election was stolen, he put poll workers and other election officials in danger. Just look at Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in Georgia, who recently received a large settlement for the harassment they faced.

Trump didnt create these lies out of ignorance or misunderstanding. He did it out of spite. The country rejected him, and his fragile ego couldnt handle the outcome of democracy.

Instead of being a man, taking the loss on the chin and moving on, he fought tooth and nail to convince his supporters that the election was rigged. He pressured secretaries of state to find votes on his behalf. He targeted poll workers. And he galvanized the fears of his most susceptible voters. He even tried to fake having won states he lost, for which a bunch of his campaign staff were just charged here in Wisconsin.

Trumps lies culminated on Jan. 6, 2021. He abused his vulnerable supporters. They were scared and felt they were cheated, and all of Trumps lies over the previous months erupted into one of the darkest days in our countrys history.

Trump knew how they felt, and he used them to his advantage. He riled them up, directed them to the Capitol and watched in glee as they stormed one of our nations most sacred buildings. He wanted them to stop the peaceful transfer of power to allow him to stay in office. And he didnt do a damn thing to stop them.

All of the accounts of Trumps actions that day are horrifying to even consider. Upon hearing that his supporters were chanting, Hang Mike Pence, and went so far as to construct a gallows, he suggested that Mike Pence deserves those chants. His advisors, friends and family had to beg him to call off the mob.

I made a testimonial video for Republican Voters Against Trump, a group working to stop the former president from returning to office, where I publicly declare that I will never support Trump. I go over my feelings there, but I have a plea to Republicans like me: Take a stand against Trump.

We need to fight for our party, and I urge you to get involved. The Republicans I grew up with respected America and its traditions, and it would have never occurred to them to try to destroy them when things didnt go their way.

As of now, I wont be voting for Biden but I damn sure will not be voting for Trump.

Ive already made my stand. I am a Republican voter against Trump. I stand with the rule of law, the peaceful transfer of power, and the institutions that make this country great. Republicans reading this, please join me. We need to be strong. We know the damage Trump will cause, and we need to do everything we can to stop it.

Make a video for Republican Voters Against Trump. Write to your local newspaper. Make your voice heard. Dont let Trump destroy what integrity our party has left.

I hope I reach at least one person like myself who will realize the lies theyve been told have done nothing but tear our country apart. Its time we reject Trump this November.

Rory Kennedy is a lifelong Republican who lives in Markesanand a participant in Republican Voters Against Trump, a nationwide campaign of former Trump voters who are not supporting him in 2024. You can watch his testimonial here.

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Follow for live updates on the South Carolina Republican primary.

The foursome of early Republican nominating contests will soon come to a close with the South Carolina primary, following the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary last month and the Nevada primary and caucuses this month.

Heres what to know.

Saturday, Feb. 24.

South Carolina has no formal party registration, so registered voters can participate in the primary regardless of whether they identify as Republicans, Democrats or independents.

However, if you voted in the Democratic primary this month, you cant vote in the Republican one, too.

The polls will be open on Election Day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern time. (You can find your polling location here.) You can also vote early from now through Feb. 22 except for Feb. 18-19 but your early-voting location may be different from your Election Day polling site, so be sure to check here.

Either way, youll need to show photo identification.

Some South Carolinians can cast absentee ballots by mail. You can find out whether youre eligible for that here.

Unfortunately, if youre not already registered to vote, its too late to do so for this primary; the deadline was last month. But you can find the information you need here to register in time for the nonpresidential primaries in June when congressional, state legislative and local races will be on the ballot and the general election in November.

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When Is the South Carolina Republican Primary? - The New York Times

I have become a little obsessed tonight about what we should be expecting Trump to hit in this primary a priori. That is, given Trump is assumed to be the eventual party nominee and almost universally liked in the GOP, should he be winning more than 60 percent in South Carolina?

I already gave my case for answering "no" to that question: Strictly speaking Trump is dominating the delegate count and running ahead of his 2016 vote share in most counties with complete counts this primary cycle. And if you consider that Haley gets a home-state advantage in South Carolina tonight, Trump's adjusted vote share is close to 65 or 70 percent; our delegate benchmarks think Trump should have won 68 percent of the vote based on the demographics of the state alone. That's not the highest number, but it's not the lowest right? Would 65 percent be "good" for Trump? 75 percent? 80?

One counterargument to this centers around how the media has covered historical performances by incumbent presidential candidates. Journalist Jill Lawrence points out that in 1992, Patrick Buchanan challenged incumbent President George H.W. Bush for the GOP nomination and won 40 percent in the New Hampshire primary, holding Bush to 58 percent of the vote. That's an almost identical split to the results from tonight. The New York Times journalist Robin Toner wrote up the results with the headline "BUSH JARRED IN FIRST PRIMARY" and said the result "amounted to a roar of anger" from Republican primary voters.

If Trump was a true incumbent, I imagine the news media would use a similar headline to describe tonight's results in South Carolina. Perhaps our expectations for him are too low, or we're too focused on the broader state of play? Haley said in her concession speech tonight that she will stay in the race indefinitely, so I guess we'll get more data on Super Tuesday only 10 days from now. The primary lives on!

G. Elliott Morris, 538

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South Carolina primary 2024: Trump projected win, Haley vows to stay in the race - ABC News

Note: percentages may update as CBS News collects more data.

Voters in South Carolina weighed in on the 2024 Republican primary Saturday, and just after polls closed at 7 p.m., the election results came in CBS News projected former President Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley. Here's the latest on the factors that went into voters' decisions how they chose between former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at the ballot box, according to exit polls.

The home-state advantage wasn't there for Haley.

Trump bested Haley among most key demographic groups. He won majorities of both men and women and among all age groups.

Trump ran especially well with the parts of the Republican base that were predominant in the GOP electorate, including conservatives and White evangelicals. More than four in 10 South Carolina GOP primary voters identified themselves as part of the MAGA movement and about nine in 10 of them backed Trump.

Most South Carolina GOP primary voters rejected the charge that Trump is mentally unfit to serve as president, according to early exit polls.

And South Carolina Republican primary voters are also dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country overall and rate the nation's economy negatively, according to early exit polls. In fact, nearly nine in 10 of these voters say they're dissatisfied with how things in the country are going including nearly half who say they are angry about it. This is currently higher than the 36% of New Hampshire primary voters who said they were angry. Eight in 10 say the economy is either not so good or poor.

Haley has questioned Trump's mental fitness for office, but Trump's voters overwhelmingly refute this, and most instead charge that it's Haley who lacks the physical and mental health needed to serve effectively as president. As a result, Trump beats Haley on this measure among Republican primary voters overall in South Carolina.

These early exit polls show a largely conservative electorate, and one that more closely resembles that of the Iowa GOP caucuses than the New Hampshire Republican primary.

This electorate is more conservative than it was in 2016, when Trump won the Republican primary in this state.

Conservative: More than four in 10 of GOP primary voters call themselves "very conservative," higher than the 38% who identified themselves that way in the 2016 primary. In 2016, those who were "somewhat conservative" outnumbered those who were "very conservative." But the reverse is the case in the primary today.

MAGA: Almost half of South Carolina GOP voters identify as "MAGA," in line with Iowa GOP caucusgoers (46%), but higher than what CBS News saw in the New Hampshire primary.

Evangelical: About six in 10 voters are White evangelicals, about three times as many as there were in the New Hampshire Republican primary. And if this holds, it would be higher than the 55% who identified as White evangelical in the Iowa caucuses.

Independents: Only about a quarter of voters call themselves independents, lower than the 44% in New Hampshire. About 4% of today's primary voters identify as Democrats.

Race:As we often see with Republican primary electorates, this electorate is largely White. More than nine in 10 voters are White.

Polls close at 7 p.m.

Primary results in the South Carolina Republican primary will start to come in after the polls close. CBS News will not characterize or project the outcome of the race before the last polls close at 7 p.m. ET.

This is the latest CBS News' estimate of how many delegates have been allocated to Republican candidates, based on the results of the nominating contests to date. Heading into the South Carolina primary, Trump had an estimated 63 delegates, compared to Haley's 17 delegates. South Carolina allocates 50 delegates. Twenty-nine of them are state delegates and the winner will take all of them. Twenty-one are allocated by congressional district three for each of the seven districts, and the winner takes all the delegates in each district.

There are 50 delegates at stake and 29 will be awarded to the winner of the statewide vote. Twenty-one delegates will be allocated according to the vote in each of the state's seven congressional districts. The top vote-getter in each district will get three delegates from that district. The tracker currently includes estimated delegates allocated after the GOP contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.

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