ROCK HILL, South Carolina — Former President Donald Trump predicted on Friday that he would handily win the South Carolina primary this weekend over the state’s former governor.
Trump is in the Palmetto State ahead of Saturday’s primary, where polls show him leading former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by double digits. A long line of Trump supporters gathered to wait outside the Winthrop Coliseum six hours before the former president began to speak.
“We’re going to have a gigantic victory here in South Carolina,” Trump told the crowd of thousands. “We’re going to show crooked Joe Biden and the radical-left Democrats that we are coming like a freight train in November. Nikki Haley is relying on Democrats and liberals. You know Democrats are financing her campaign. It’s called the crazy world of politics.”
Trump argued that Democrats were “putting up money” for Haley’s campaign “because they damage us.”
“The biggest supporters that she’s got right now are the Biden supporters, the Biden bundlers, the Biden cheaters. They’re the ones that are doing it for Nikki,” he said.
He then urged voters to come out and support him “if you don’t want the ultra-Left to meddle in this primary.”
Voters wore “Women for Trump” hats and Trump 2024 hoodies and brought their young children to hear Trump speak. Among Trump’s fervent supporters who waited was James Prendergast, 37, a Great Falls, South Carolina, resident.
“I think that he’ll win because, overall, he’s a good president,” he said. “I’m sorry, Biden’s not good. You know, and I actually like Trump.”
“I think the country is tired of the nonsense we’re going through,” said Bill Strenkert, 58, a retired nurse from Mount Holly, North Carolina, who traveled for the rally. “And I think the country knows he can fix it. That’s that simple.”
Another supporter, Taylor Oreter, a Fort Mill, South Carolina, stay-at-home mother, praised Trump as a beacon for the nation. “I think Trump is what’s best for our country,” she said. “That’s what we have to zone in on right now is what is going to be best for America.”
Oreter is not supporting Haley but did not tarnish the former Palmetto State governor while talking with the Washington Examiner.
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“I am not voting for Haley,” she said. “I think she did great things in South Carolina. But I just don’t think she’s right for America right now.”
Even a minor was excited to tell the Washington Examiner why Trump will win South Carolina’s GOP despite being too young to vote. “Trump is gonna win because all them liberals don’t know what they’re talking about,” said Holden Alexander Hope from Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
