Columbia, South Carolina: In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest.

Within minutes of polls closing in the South Carolina primary race, Donald Trump had been declared the winner, delivering a humiliating blow to Nikki Haley in her home state and casting further doubt about her hopes for the White House.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a primary election night party.Credit: AP

After all, the former UN ambassador had been suggesting for weeks that even if she couldn’t defeat Trump in Iowa or New Hampshire as they battled for the Republican presidential nomination, she would surely be able to buck the trend in South Carolina at the hands of voters who knew her as their former two-term governor.

But it wasn’t to be – and not for the lack of trying.

While Trump barely campaigned in the state until this week, Haley held about 30 events and spent millions of dollars on advertising.

Republican presidential candidate former UN ambassador Nikki Haley speaking at an election night event in Charleston.Credit: AP

She had pitched herself as a new generational conservative leader while reminding voters of the division and chaos Trump sowed.

And she warned Republicans that Trump had a history of winning primaries but losing general elections, such as the 2020 presidential election, and the midterm elections in 2018 and 2022.

“We can’t change this country if we don’t win,” she would often say.

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Columbia, South Carolina: In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest.

Within minutes of polls closing in the South Carolina primary race, Donald Trump had been declared the winner, delivering a humiliating blow to Nikki Haley in her home state and casting further doubt about her hopes for the White House.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald........

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