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| South Carolina primary and Nevada caucus pit Trump v Cruz and Clinton v Sanders – live | |
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| The road to Donald Trump’s victory in New Hampshire – and predicted victory in South Carolina – was long and made possible by decades of growing inequality, simmering anger at career politicians, and, by novelist Adam Haslett’s estimation, the Georges Bush. | |
| The Bushes have long been aristocrats with knives in their pockets. In politics since the 1950s and in the White House for 16 of the last 28 years, this dynastic family embodies more than any other the transformation of the Republican party from a coalition of north-eastern social liberals and economic elites to one of southern, religious conservatives and free-market extremists. | |
| Along this path came the willingness to employ – always at arm’s length – not only the kind of racially charged demagoguery that Trump brandishes openly, but the staging of false controversy for political gain that is the real estate executive’s modus operandi. | |
| It is not just the Republican party’s general extremism that has created such a vast public space for a demagogue to fill. The Bush family’s political behavior, in all its disdainful violence, prepared the way for Trump. The difference being that where the Bushes used henchmen, Trump is his own – and all the more effective for it. | |
| You can read Haslett’s entire study on the tactics of the Bushes and their allies through the link below. | |
| Related: How the Bush dynasty's tactics birthed the President Trump nightmare | |
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| Interactive editor Nadja Popovich takes a look at whether history is any guide to the Nevada caucus, the South Carolina primary and the ultimate nominations for the Democratic and Republican parties. | |
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| South Carolina’s primary day gets off to a civil start. | South Carolina’s primary day gets off to a civil start. |
| Lying #Ted Cruz just (on election day) came out with a sneak and sleazy Robocall. He holds up the Bible but in fact is a true lowlife pol! | Lying #Ted Cruz just (on election day) came out with a sneak and sleazy Robocall. He holds up the Bible but in fact is a true lowlife pol! |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary elections, the respective contests for Democrats and Republicans competing for their parties’ nominations for the White House. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary elections, the respective contests for Democrats and Republicans competing for their parties’ nominations for the White House. |
| In Nevada it’s Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton, and in South Carolina it’s Donald Trump vs a small battalion of Republicans: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Ben Carson. | In Nevada it’s Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton, and in South Carolina it’s Donald Trump vs a small battalion of Republicans: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Ben Carson. |
| Caucusing kicks off in Nevada 11am local time, and the first results should arrive in the afternoon. (A handy refresher on caucuses, courtesy the Guardian’s video team, is available here.) Poll averages show Sanders and Clinton neck-and-neck in Nevada, 47% to 50.5% … though Nevada polls are notoriously unreliable. | Caucusing kicks off in Nevada 11am local time, and the first results should arrive in the afternoon. (A handy refresher on caucuses, courtesy the Guardian’s video team, is available here.) Poll averages show Sanders and Clinton neck-and-neck in Nevada, 47% to 50.5% … though Nevada polls are notoriously unreliable. |
| Voting in South Carolina will carry on until polls close at 7pm local time – with results landing in the hours afterward. Trump has a healthy lead of 33.9% , per state poll averages, followed by a rising Cruz (19.3%) and Rubio (15.9%). | Voting in South Carolina will carry on until polls close at 7pm local time – with results landing in the hours afterward. Trump has a healthy lead of 33.9% , per state poll averages, followed by a rising Cruz (19.3%) and Rubio (15.9%). |
| There’s no dearth of drama. Trump got into a fight with Pope Francis. Cruz got into a fight with Rubio about photoshopping and trickery. Bush got another Bush to emerge from hiding. Kasich got a hug. Cruz got threatened with a lawsuit by Trump, who also called for a boycott of Apple products, because “How do you like that? I just thought of that!” | There’s no dearth of drama. Trump got into a fight with Pope Francis. Cruz got into a fight with Rubio about photoshopping and trickery. Bush got another Bush to emerge from hiding. Kasich got a hug. Cruz got threatened with a lawsuit by Trump, who also called for a boycott of Apple products, because “How do you like that? I just thought of that!” |
| Nor is all quiet in Nevada. Sanders has drawn thousands to events in Las Vegas, and won a new cognomen from Hispanic voters: “el Viejito” (the little oldie). Clinton has refused to be outdone: before impressive audiences she has barked in imitation of a dog, won the endorsement of famed civil rights leaders and earned the admiration of a group calling itself “Hookers for Hillary”. | Nor is all quiet in Nevada. Sanders has drawn thousands to events in Las Vegas, and won a new cognomen from Hispanic voters: “el Viejito” (the little oldie). Clinton has refused to be outdone: before impressive audiences she has barked in imitation of a dog, won the endorsement of famed civil rights leaders and earned the admiration of a group calling itself “Hookers for Hillary”. |
| It’s round three of the 2016 primary race, then, and as usual a crack crew of Guardian reporters is on the ground. | It’s round three of the 2016 primary race, then, and as usual a crack crew of Guardian reporters is on the ground. |
| Adam Gabbatt is in South Carolina mingling with Republican voters; Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui will be trailing the campaigns; and Scott Bixby will helm the live blog of late results from Columbia. Nicky Woolf will attend to the Nevada blog duties from the glimmer and grunge of Las Vegas, while Maria L La Ganga, Sam Levin, Paul Lewis and Chris McGreal chase Sanders and Clinton as they chase caucusers around the state. Guardian US columnist Richard Wolffe is in Sin City as well, while Jeb Lund and Megan Carpentier will keep an eye on the Donald doing what he does best: trying to win. | Adam Gabbatt is in South Carolina mingling with Republican voters; Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui will be trailing the campaigns; and Scott Bixby will helm the live blog of late results from Columbia. Nicky Woolf will attend to the Nevada blog duties from the glimmer and grunge of Las Vegas, while Maria L La Ganga, Sam Levin, Paul Lewis and Chris McGreal chase Sanders and Clinton as they chase caucusers around the state. Guardian US columnist Richard Wolffe is in Sin City as well, while Jeb Lund and Megan Carpentier will keep an eye on the Donald doing what he does best: trying to win. |
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