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The foursome of early Republican nominating contests will quickly come to a detailed with the South Carolina main, following the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire main final month and the Nevada main and caucuses this month.
Here’s what to know.
When is the South Carolina Republican main?
Saturday, Feb. 24.
Who can take part?
South Carolina has no formal party registration, so registered voters can take part within the main no matter whether or not they establish as Republicans, Democrats or independents.
However, in the event you voted within the Democratic main this month, you possibly can’t vote within the Republican one, too.
How can I vote?
The polls can be open on Election Day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (You can discover your polling location right here.) You may also vote early from now by way of Feb. 22 — aside from Feb. 18-19 — however your early-voting location could also be totally different out of your Election Day polling website, so be sure you test right here.
Either manner, you’ll want to indicate photograph identification.
Some South Carolinians can solid absentee ballots by mail. You can discover out whether or not you’re eligible for that right here.
Unfortunately, in the event you’re not already registered to vote, it’s too late to take action for this main; the deadline was final month. But yow will discover the data you want right here to register in time for the nonpresidential primaries in June — when congressional, state legislative and native races can be on the poll — and the final election in November.
Who can be on the poll?
Seven candidates can be listed:
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The two main contenders, former President Donald J. Trump and Nikki Haley
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Two little-known candidates, Ryan Binkley and David Stuckenberg
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Three former candidates — Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy — who suspended their campaigns after the ballots had been set.
The poll may even embody three questions on coverage issues, however these outcomes usually are not binding; they’re meant for the state Republican Party to gauge voter sentiment.
What are we expecting in South Carolina?
South Carolina might be the final stand for Ms. Haley’s marketing campaign.
It is her dwelling state, and voters there twice elected her as governor, so it might appear to offer a chance for her to compete intently with Mr. Trump — however polls present her far behind. She has mentioned that she doesn’t assume she has to win South Carolina to stay viable however that she must do higher than she did in New Hampshire (43 %), which was in flip higher than she did in Iowa (19 %).
If she outperforms the polls, the momentum may carry her into the 16 races of Super Tuesday, the place she would wish to build up lots of delegates to be aggressive. (We’re monitoring the delegate depend right here.) If she doesn’t, her path seems fairly bleak.
What occurs subsequent?
After South Carolina, the race will head to Michigan, which is able to maintain its primaries for each events on Feb. 27 as a result of Democrats moved the state up of their nominating course of.
But as a result of the Republican National Committee didn’t authorize that change, it should award solely a fraction of Michigan’s delegates to the party’s nationwide conference based mostly on these main outcomes. The remainder of the state’s delegates can be decided later, at caucuses run by party insiders.
After Feb. 27, the weeks of one-state-at-a-time campaigning will finish because the race proceeds to Super Tuesday on March 5.
