Donald Trump was riding high after his victory over Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary.
But Trump got brought back down to earth with some bad news.
And Trey Gowdy had one bone-chilling message for Donald Trump.
Donald Trump celebrated his 20-point landslide win with a victory speech where he boasted about the unity in the Republican Party.
“This was an even bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump declared, adding that “I have never seen the Republican Party so unified.”
Over on Fox News, former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy saw the exact opposite.
Gowdy argued the GOP was anything but unified, pointing to the upheaval in Congress with conservatives thwarting plans by establishment RINOs like Mitch McConnell to help Joe Biden keep the border open and fund the government.
“Has he looked at the House of Representatives lately? I don’t see a unified party, I see a party where over half of Haley’s supporters right now would not vote for him,” Gowdy stated.
Baier: Trump said he’s never seen the party so unified
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However, there is unity within in the Republican Party about nominating Donald Trump.
Exit polls showed Trump crushed Nikki Haley with registered Republicans in South Carolina 70 to 29 percent.
Haley won a dismal 39.5 percent of the vote on the back of winning independents 60 to 39 percent.
South Carolina is an open primary state meaning registered Democrats and left-leaning independents can vote in a Republican primary so long as they haven’t voted in the Democrat Party contest.
The statement made by the vote is clear.
Republicans want Trump as their standard bearer and Democrats are voting in GOP primaries to ding Trump by keeping Haley around to attack Trump.
Haley is obliging with increasingly unhinged attacks on Trump from the left about Russia, the political persecutions against him, and his age.
These are not sales pitches that will win over Republican voters as the results in South Carolina can attest.
But this looks like the high-water mark for Haley.
Haley could only muster 39.5 percent of the vote in her home state where Democrats could vote.
This was as favorable political terrain as Haley could find.
As the nominating contest moves into closed primary states where only Republicans can cast ballots Haley is staring down the barrel at a string of 40- and 50-point blowout defeats.
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