through the south carolina technical college system. high demand for skills, training, and knowledge, many institutions across the nation are seeing declining enrollments. to address these challenges i have proposed funding for the education oversight committee, which is a nonpartisan committee composed of legislators, educators, and business representatives to oversee a systemic review of our states 33 public institutions of higher education. this study will provide a systemic review including an assessment of any advantages from consolidating schools are programs or reevaluate courses, degrees and certificates. the goal is to make sure we're meeting our state future workforce needs. also i propose providing $80 million so that every south carolinian who qualifies for federal need-based financial aid as measured by the federal pell grants have sufficient state financial assistance to attain any, any end-state public college, university, or technical college. students at private, independent, and historical black colleges and universitie

in which the south carolina bk country is in many ways like the north back country, where the spurgeon lived. i mean, the fact that there is a state boundary really does not that the circumstances of people's lives plus, in south carolina, you had a very large loyalist community in charleston in which was the fourth biggest city in the united states at the time of the american. and what this study of south carolina argues is is that the vast majority of loyalists were just sort of re integrated into their communities you know, they're just kind of like mean clearly if you were a real jerk and you celebrated the king's birthday every year in the 1790s people were not going be nice to you but if you were just kind of like, okay, we lost so let's just go back to life as normal people were pretty accepting, they were they were a lot more accepting than you would expect. and again, i mean, i go back to the example of samuel morgan in rowan county, who the british considered these single most influential, effective me

does the first sunday south carolina had been a caucus state. the first year they went to a primary on the democratic side. that is where we are at. again, we don't -- it's tough for me to say, is that a great number for democrats. does that say anything about enthusiasm. the big thing that these results are shouting is, there is no appetite among democratic voters for a contested primary for joe biden. winning new hampshire, the ultimate high interest high turn voter primary state on right in, with two thirds vote, and now he gets numbers like this in south carolina, right, now it's not screaming anything immediate about turnout. it just seems to me that every democrat, basically, bother the turnout today has delivered a message, we're good to go for the general election. >> good to go, and the motivation is there as tremaine pointed out, the gentleman that he spoke to, rev, was that if you vote now, and because it is not a contested primary, not a competitive one, the more accurate word, you are going to vote to send a message, and you are mot

i said that is the south carolina way. [applause] we know the train workforce is outpacing the qualified applicants manufacturers like bmw, mercedes benz vans will eat a highly specialized and trained workforce of almost 20000 south carolinians. and they will need them soon to meet this demand my executive budget wrappers recommends $50 million to create specialized e the trainingev institutes at technical college campuses which by the way the best technical college campuses in the united states and everybody knowsd it. let's talk about unions for a moment. one thing we do not need is more labor unions in south carolina. we have gotten where we are without that we do not need them now. we are a right to work states. we had the lowest union membership in the country. we worked hard and carefully through education and business recruitments. current record prosperity we will continue to preserve it and enhance it. however, our prosperity and that of generations of south carolinians to come face a clear and present danger from

our coverage of the south carolina primary starts right now. ♪ it is 7:00 p.m. east coast and the polls are officially closed in the state of south carolina. good evening, i am bret baier. >> i am martha maccallum live at fox news headquarters for special coverage of the south carolina republican primary. fox news decision guest canal project former president donald trump will win the state gop primary trump now has three times as many delegates as former governor he haley and with these tonight, he could add up to 50 more. >> i'm on suspense tonight. she could not convert her hometown advantage into a win. she told supporters this week she was not dropping out of the race south carolina is the last of the early states with significant number of delegates at the start. we are keeping an eye on both trump and haley campaign headquarters we expect both candidates to speak soon. the former president heading into tonight with this message. >> we are going to have a dynamic to get a victory here in south carolina, we are going to show the radical left democrats that

those are for the democrats in south carolina but it was a signal of biden's strength in these primary states that have the delegates for super tuesday. they have lots of nonwhite voters and as we got nomination last on that's why he's got no serious impediment to the nomination this time although two candidates are still in the race. host: president biden made a big effort of south carolina first so did it change his relationship with the state, particularly african-american voters? guest: it was helpful. it's a question of pushing south carolina first in the calendar and not voting in terms of picking up delegates in new hampshire, it ended up not hurting that much. you had a larger number of people turned out to vote for joe biden is a write in candidate last month than people who showed up for barack obama for a second term in 2012. it didn't hurt there. in south carolina, it anecdotally did help the president to put a focus on the state and rollout issues that have uplifted black voters, people below the poverty line. that's a lot of what is campaign is about. that campaign is lar

look at the results tonight in south carolina. biden cruising to victory in an election where black voters, we're looking at the early vote data, are making up 76% of the electorate. that's compared to about 56% in 2020. so black voters turned out in south carolina because they understand that joe biden has kept his prompts. he kept his promise by making sure that south carolina went first in the nominating calendar and he has kept his promises throughout his first term in office, right? he promised to run and serve as a president who will put racial equity first. so what the result has been has been things like record low black employment in first term in office, black wealth up 60% since before the pandemic, historic investments into hbcus and capping the cost of insulin at $35. this is a president who has made promises and kept them. his promise now is to keep delivering for the american people over the course of the next four years, and that stands in stark contrast to donald trump who wakes up every day thinking about how he

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the only guy who didn't win south carolina and then went on to win the republican nomination. was mitt romney back in 2012. remember, it was newt it was back in 2012. who won south carolina. and then basically didn't win another primary throughout the rest of the primary season. so winning south carolina is very important. now, going back to history, take a look at what happened back in 2016, trump's 2016, south carolina, when i think the real question this year is, can he went all 46 counties in 2024 because he came pretty close back in 2016. he only lost a highly college educated charleston richland that of course is where columbia, south carolina is. if he can do that, it can show that he's really gone in and is dominating the gop, not just among non-college educated voters, but among college educated voters as well. and here's the other way that trump could dominate winning iowa, new hampshire, and the first and south primary could trump be the first republican. it's only happened twice before jimmy carter in 76 and al gore in 2000. both of those of course, went on to win t

thanks very much for watching more special coverage of the south carolina >> in the south carolina capital and across the state, the first southern showdown, the 2024 republican presidential race, is now underway. voters choosing between the undefeated gop front runner donald trump and their former governor nikki haley is vowing to fight trump to the bitter end. welcome to cnn's live special coverage of the south carolina republican primary. i'm anderson cooper and i'm jake tapper in the cnn election center. there is less than one hour left for voters in the palmetto state to cast their ballots. donald trump and nikki haley, of course, going head-to-head on haley's home turf, raising this thanks for her campaign and making their fight perhaps even more combative. trump is counting on another decisive win that would bring the former president and closer to clinching the republican nomination, even as he's juggling court appearances and indictments, he faces his first criminal trial next month. >> this could be >> haley's last chance to slow trump's march toward becoming the nominee, the sel

they's are the biggest officials and south carolina. ike, the biggest officials in our country as far as i'm concerned. they are state figures but they are national thinkers. and in the truest sense of the road, that love our country so much and they want to see a country succeed and be respected again. right now, it were a laughing stock all over the world. our country is going to be respected again. respected like never before. [applause] so this is a fantastic evening. it is and early evening and fantastic. you can all go down and celebrity for about 15 minutes, then we have to get back to work. a big day, you know, michigan is coming up. we're the wouldn't right. the ultimate workers will be with us 100%. because they got sold out by this country. michigan is up and we are going to have a tremendous success there. then we have a thin coat super tuesday. i think we are leading 91 to 7. [applause] if you don't mind, may i have the pleasure of introducing some incredible people? because they stop right from the beginning, from the very

>> i think the president has spent a lot of time in south carolina. very early in the state from the grassroots perspective, he wanted to win the state, certainly understand the importance of south carolina, you do not get to the white house unless you win the south carolina primary. it's important to be here. governor haley spent a lot of time camp out in new hampshire but didn't invest the time to be here in the state you see that play out in the polling results today. >> if she had done so, do you think are numbers would be bigger? >> i think so if you look at the reports other muslim voters feel she has abandoned the state a little bit there is a feeling of where have you been? you have to invest in the grassroots, show up to things like party meetings and go to places so all eyes are on south carolina today but the early move by the trump orbit to come down to south carolina, hire staff and make sure they were engaged dissipating in parades and things, and couple that with this has always been fertile trump territory the state loves president tru

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the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. manning: i am prepared to close if the other side has no further speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. manning: i yield myself such time as i may consume for the purpose of closing. i support this bill and the underlying provision of law it seeks to amend which works to protect u.s. businesses from being targeted by foreign boycotts particularly against nations friendly to the united states like israel. i hope my colleagues will join me in supporting h.r. 3016. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves -- the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman is recognized. mr. lawler: i yield myself the balance of my time. i want to thank my democrat co-lead, congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey, the co-chair of the problem solvers caucus and all of our bipartisan co-sponsors for working with me on this important bill to update our antiboycott laws, to respond to potential threats facing the united states, and our ally united states. which

the place. north carolina, i said, when will they drop the ballots? we never had a problem. id, that is my kind of guy. he had hundreds of lawyers -- 500 lawyers to make sure they did not cheat in north carolina. and i said, that is my kind of guy. i appreciate that and we are very proud of you and you will do a fantastic job. we used to have election night. now we have an election period because some of these elections go on for 45 days or 61 days. they get all this equipment. and then they announce, we will be announcing the vote in three weeks from now. can you imagine? but you have done a fantastic job and we really appreciate it, michael. we also have a lot of members of congress. this room is full of energy. there has never been unity in our party -- think of it -- we have a lot of primaries in this stage. the fact that we got double the number of votes in history, there has never been anything like that. we have never heard that. we have members of congress with us. i'm very proud of this. i thought, that guy would be great. we had a guy whose vote i was not happy with

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women's reproductive freedom is on the ballots in north carolina in november. the ballot across the country, obviously but republicans with a one vote supermajority were able to override my veto to put in a 12- week abortion ban in north carolina, and people are upset about that. the republicans in north carolina have been able to use technologically diabolical gerrymandering to draw districts that don't reflect north carolina, who we are as north carolinians. we are a 50/50 state, so that's going to be an issue that's going to be on the ballot this time, we are going to be working to elect a governor, we're gonna be work make sure that we break that super majority in the legislature again, and all that i think is going to converge we're gonna work with the biden campaign to win this state for joe biden. >> people talk a lot about obviously they talk a lot about 2024, the context of the presidential, but yes north carolina and ten other states will be choosing governors. the state legislature, americas policies is made in the state legislatures, what is your big

time isn't the only thing he hasn't spent much of in south carolina. trump's campaign has also avoided investing a lot of money and the state, spain only about $1 million on ads. meanwhile nikki haley has been barnstorming south carolina with speeches and spending. she outspent trump on the airwaves by more than $10 million. >> she has money. we'll be talking about that and they show as well and how it will keep her in the state. i should also mention, this is her home state. it's a bloody nose. that she was elected governor here twice. it is her home court, her home field. whatever sports analogy -- you love sports. >> i so do. >> but she doesn't seem to have the advantage that typically comes with that. with it being her home field. it kind of defies logic when you lay it out on paper and some ways. she's a young, conservative former governor of the state, who spent big on time and money -- this should pay light up for south carolina republican voters, to keep the sport and knowledge is going. but if tonight goes as the polls are trained, jake this is

the race? these results out of south carolina _ the race? arolina right _ the race? these results out of south carolina right now- the race? these results out of south carolina right now are l south carolina right now are rather unsurprising to me. i would be waiting to see what the end result is and we will want to split hairs to see where exactly the votes landed up. 50 delegates are on the line here tonight and i know trump would like to take home all of them. that's just not how the primary structured. 29 will go to him of course but then you have to see how the votes are split across many congressional districts. nikki haley went into today was my primary not having much support, the south carolina political establishment. she has often times said she didn't mean it —— need it. this is different than when she ran for governor and one and i think in some ways we have to see this on its face for what it is. yet another primary loss that would have been nice to have but doesn't indicate the seismic shift in the race that so many people are

he is a hero of the civil rights movement in south carolina and a leader in the u.s. congress. great congressman and alumni of south carolina state university. welcome to the stage the one and only jim clyburn. [applause] >> hey, everybody. thank you. thank you so much for presenting me here today. i need not be introduced to south carolina state university. students or graduates or administrators. this is home for me. thank you so much. i just want to expand a little bit on something you heard from jamie. since he took all of my speech away. [laughter] a a lot of times, it's great to think about what has happened. what you have done. but every election is about the future. what lies in my future? let me say something about student loan debt relief. jamie has told you about the $137 billion in debt elimination already taking place. he mentioned to you that covers 4.3 million people. what he did not mention is that for the next four years, every two months, another $75,000 will become eligible for that debt relief. we've got to decide, who do we want to be in charge of that progr

thunderstorms moving across the carolinas today. really though, south carolina, kind of rainy. ing to clear off for folks on saturday. mostly sunny conditions. and then you look at the temperatures across the rest of the country, looking fairly mild. those are your weather headlines. for now, tariffing it back down to you guys in south carolina. >> steve: all right. thank you very much. >> ainsley: this is a crazy story out of san francisco. where, if you go to this paint store or hardware store, there's a sign on the window that says you have to wait right here until an attendant can come out or escort can come out and walk you through the store to help you find what you want. all because of shoplifting. >> steve: yeah. they say it's the worst they have seen ever, the people at this store. they put up this sign it says attention shoppers, due to the rampant shoplifting, fredrickson has introduced a one-on-one shopping experience. wait here and a clerk will be right with you to help you with all your shopping needs. we're sorry for the inconvenience. well, you know what? you are

now let's go to our reporters on the ground in south carolina. hillyard is at trump headquarters in columbia. ali vitali is at haley headquarters in charleston. vaughn, let's start with you. the former president, he has already made his victory speech, what did he have to say? >> right, rhetorically speaking here, donald trump has moved on. while he acknowledged that there are still contests to be had, he did not mention nikki haley, or the fact that he even had an opponent at this point. on stage here tonight, which of course is a far cry from the donald trump that we are used to. and i can tell you, i talked to lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina, just before donald trump's remarks. and he told me that it is time for the republican party to unify, and look towards joe biden -- in fact i talked to marjorie taylor greene here this afternoon, at a polling location. she told me that donald trump should ignore nikki haley completely, and view her as not all and void, and not a figure in this race. and, if you're looking at it from the tru

schools all across the state of south carolina. but by by spelling out from the white house our commitment to excellence. our commitment to values in our schools, we got away from that. some time during that post-vietnam era. we got concerned about teaching values, but i'll bet we could all agree on decency or honor or obeying the law or kindness or compassion or or integrity or whatever it is we ought to support principals and those superintendents and most of all, those teachers that are working and helping to teach our kids values. i've long supported a prayer in school amendment back in 1968. i put it in and as a member of the united states congress from texas, and i still feel that way because we are one nation under, god. they open the supreme court a prayer. they open the congress with a prayer. heavens knows they need it. and i don't see why. i don't see why on a voluntary basis, not mandated from the federal government, respectful of minority religions, whatever it may be that we have a prayer in our in our public schools i

that's what the citizens have. south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of mystery tonight in south carolina? the state's governor, mark sanford disappeared for days. >> governor alert. the search for mark sanford in june 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford became a missing person news began to go route in south carolina, getting the papers like no one knows where the governor is. >> the south carolina governor is missing. where is he? is he dead somewhere in a ditch? >> but each day that tick by, the mystery grew. >> many in south carolina, i don't know where he is, not even his wife, just so strange this well-known father of four young boys wasn't home for father's day. >> and more and more people started asking the head ana today is local paper says sanford awol who's in charge. it was please bear of duty. imagine if there was a mass shooting or hurricane or anything. i think all of us are concerned. we're worried about where he might be >> speculation was rampant. some people thought he was dead.

and you have been the lieutenant governor of south carolina. orsed president trump. but what i think a lot of viewers wouldn't know you were the lieutenant governor of nikki haley too. >> who would be the best president right now and the answer in my mind is clearly president trump. he's thinking only of the country and we know what he can do. and we know he'll shut that board because he shut it before and ought to be shut right now the law allows it and put conservative judges on the bench that's one of the most important things a president can do particularly in the supreme court. >> so governor you proudly talked about people and weather and environment here in south carolina, would you mind showing us a little bit of columbia real quick. >> i would be happy to. >> just around corner from the state capitol from your office and from university of south carolina and all of them were brothers, five brothers -- six of us. pete: what's name of this beautiful green here? >> this is called the horseshoe and these buildings these are original buildin

the general election. john: one of those was in rock hill, south carolina over the border from north carolina and it was hugee he hasn't done a lot but the ones he has done have been very big but nikki haley has been barnstorming the state as well, hoping for a good showing. it will be a tough hill to climb but she will try to do it. sandra: interested to see what the issues are on the ground in south carolina looking at new hampshire, iowa. fox voter analysis did reveal it was about immigration, it wasn't economy top of the list. that was a distant second. those are the two issues that are the most pressing for voters coast-to-coast. john: voters having breakfast the last couple days, immigration is the top issue but there is another one rapidly emerging on the campaign trail. joining us to talk about that another issues is nikki haley. great to see you and spend more time with you. >> great day in south carolina. people are out voting. good turnout today. john: it is a great day. this is something that is exploded and the campaign trail in the last few hours, the alabama supreme court, in response to it ea

now, in 2024, the people of south carolina have spoken again. and i have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the presidency again, and making donald trump a loser, again. of course, we are also watching breaking news coming out of the middle east. after the united states and the uk launched a new series of strikes today, targeting the houthis in yemen. the attacks hit at least 36 targets in at least 36 locations across the country. a senior biden administration official told nbc news today that the strikes in yemen, and yesterday's attacks on more than 85 targets linked to iranian-backed militias in iraq and syria are not related. but let's go back to politics, first to those live primary results we are getting out of south carolina. our team of correspondents, are fanned across the states with the very latest. msnbc correspondent for mainly, he's in north charleston, campaign, -- just south in charleston, and campaign -- greg hyatt is in greenville for us. terrain, i'll start with you. we now have a clear picture of some of thos

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the race. and of course, south carolina is her home state. what are we expecting there on the republican side? >> you're right. on february 24th, that's when republicans in south carolina will go to the polls and that will perhaps be more competitive. nikki haley, the former governor there who served a couple terms. she's still in this race. she's vowing to stay in the race. and donald trump the overrunning front runner there. this will show us a lot about the strength of the former president going forward and the willingness for republicans to get on board behind him. and the margin will be very important. this will have general election implications as well. nikki haley has been making a general election argument. she's saying she can win joe biden. she has a better chance of doing so than donald trump. the republican contest will be much more important in terms of the race going forward. so it is likely to say if there will be a rematch for sure. yes, both sides, the biden campaign, the trump campaign, are preparing for a rematch. that'll c

the south carolina library she mentioned was one of the special collections units here at the university of south carolina. we particularly collect markable research material about the state of south carolina, and its inhabitants. documenting its history, geography, culture. so, those sorts of things consist of manuscript materials. which might be personal papers, organizational records. right? like these types of materials. business records. that sort of thing. we also have a published materials collection. books, newspapers, magazines. things you would expect. maps. then a large visual materials collections. that includes both photographs, and owed old photographic processes. postcards, and fine art. that sort of thing. so, the south carolinian building you can see here. through most of its history has kind of engaged its research audience in a kind of traditional manner. we are a special collections library. so, we are close to circulating. that means you can't just go into the stacks like you could in thomas kuyper library. look up and down the shelves. look at the book you want. che

the action shifts to haley's home state here, south carolina. lling certainly has shown donald trump with a commanding, in many cases, overwhelming lead heading into today. obviously, if haley is going to turn this race around, she's gonna pull a big surprise tonight. so, some of the places we're going to be looking at the vote comes in tonight, first for haley, her strength has been, we've talked about this, it's been with independents. it's been with democrats. this is an open primary. there's no primary registration in south carolina, so anybody can vote, as long as they didn't vote in the democratic presidential primary, which was held three weeks ago. not a big turnout in that one. so, there's a pretty large universe, at least in theory, if available voters for nikki haley. places to look for nikki haley tonight, chief among them is charleston. charleston county here. this is an area. take a look back at the 2016 presidential primary, where donald trump won south carolina, but he lost to his county. so, this is a blue county in general elect

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