Donald Trump didn't just win South Carolina.

He went over the only remaining competitor in the Republican intra-party race, Nikki Haley, with a steamroller.

By taking 44 of the 50 electoral votes that will determine the party's nomination at the convention in Milwaukee, Trump turned Haley into the candidate who lost his home state's presidential primary for the first time in more than 50 years.

Before her, there was Richard Nixon, who lost the primary election to Ronald Reagan in California.

Trump is now being compared more and more often with the new Reagan, on whom the party relies.

At the All-American Convention of Conservatives, which takes place in the suburbs of Washington, he receives a standing ovation, calling himself a dissident who is fighting the Biden regime alone.

There, at CPAC, delegates are already openly criticizing the “Ukrainian” policy of the White House administration.

Trumpist isolationism is now the party mainstream.

Neocons like Haley are turning into outcasts and outsiders before our eyes.

It’s not for nothing that Lindsey Graham kept hanging around Trump in South Carolina.

Even his own constituents booed the state senator at one rally.

But Graham is ready to endure this too.

He wants to be taken to the future.

There is less and less doubt that in the electoral sense it is connected with Trump.

Even mathematically.

To be nominated, the former US president needs 1,215 electoral votes.

By March 12, 56% of delegates to the Republican National Convention will have been awarded.

After South Carolina it will obviously be easier, because in most cases delegates are distributed on a winner-takes-all basis.

Trump's next test is on Tuesday in Michigan.

“Super Tuesday” is just around the corner, where the votes of as many as 874 electors are at stake.

But Trump, it seems, cannot be led astray.

His electoral base (and this was also shown by South Carolina) consists of far more than just Trumpists.

The state is one of the most conservative in America.

Only four out of ten voters there consider themselves supporters of the MAGA movement.

But conservatives (and in the USA this is heavily influenced by religion) - eight out of ten.

And this is doubly important.

After all, these are the people who are targeted by the criminal cases brought against Trump at the instigation of the Democrats.

They say that when they learn that he is a convicted criminal, evangelicals will turn away.

Nikki Haley remains in the race counting on such an outcome.

Contrary to American tradition (that same defeat in her home state), she plans to “watch” Trump at least until Super Tuesday.

Talk about an alternative path is in favor of the poor.

Hayley was clearly in a deep state.

It's sponsored by Democrats.

She is a living trap for Trump, set by the “deep state”, which is waiting for him to be removed from the run one way or another.

It is not for nothing that after her defeat, Haley received praise from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is called a candidate to replace Biden.

“Newsom - Haley” - the establishment certainly would not have objected to such a final on November 5th.

However, living political life, as usual, is richer than murky schemes.

There, in South Carolina, a new political star lit up during the primaries.

Their second most important result is the visible rapprochement between Trump and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.

He appeared with Trump at rallies and even in interviews with Fox News.

Having dropped out of the internal party race back in November, Scott is now perhaps Trump's main ally, which continues to make history.

He is the first African-American Republican senator since 1979, and is now increasingly tipped to become the first black Republican vice president.

Under Trump, of course.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.