Told us think saw a steady stream but no long lines. Abten tee voting hit a record for president ial primary in South Carolina. More than sixty thousand absentee votes cast. Thats double the number in 2008 and 2012, that leads people to believe we could see a record as many as 657 thousand votes in this president ial primary. We asked whats driving them to go to the polls . Theres a lot of people that are running. Thats turning grabbing a lot of peoples attention. People are looking for a fresh voice and face. My mailbox has been full of propaganda, if you want to call it. That may be driving interest. Itd be hard to sleep this one, for sure. This is an open primary and that means voters from the democrat and Republican Party there are 2. 9 million voters in the state and every early indication is a lot of them are going to the polls. Theres still a little more than a half an hour to go before the polls close at 7 00. Well be here to bring you the reaction from tonights election here a
Debate and the political fall out calling the death of Supreme Court conservative Antonin Scalia who died saturday at the age of 79. Then well check win Bernie Sanders on the latest development in the democratic race. Well have brand new cbs Battleground Tracker poll numbers and plenty of analysis. All ahead on face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good mornings, welcome to face the nation from the center here in greenville, South Carolina. At last nights Republican Debate was anything but peaceful. The reputation for brass knuckle candidates they took their brawling primary on to the stage. Donald trump was on the offensive attacking george w. Bush for the war in iraq. Obviously the war in iraq is a big, fat mistake george bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in iraq. We have destabilized the middle east. Dickerson you still think he should be impeached. Do whatever you want you call tell you they lied. They said there
Much further behind. Well have more battleground poll numbers and results from the South Carolina democratic primary coming up but right now we want to go to donald trump who joins us from his home in west palm beach. Mr. Trump i want to start with a tweet from you this morning in which you write, quote, republican establishment has been pushing for light weight senator marco rubio to say anything to hit trump. I signed the pledge, careful. What does that mean . Well, theyre not treating me well. I signed the pledge, ive been very good and straight and honest and honorable not treated me well. Look at the way they stacked the audiences in the debate ive won every debate according to every poll. Every Single Online poll but way they stacked the audiences, the way they talk. They have this light weight senator marco rubio saying terrible things, just personal terrible things. I dont think its fair the way that the establishment is treating donald trump. I signed the pledge. I will abide
Fourth and ended his campaign we have four republican president ial candidates we go first to donald trump who joins us from west palm beach. Mr. Trump, is it now your nomination to lose . I dont think so. Look, im dealing with very, very talented people, smart people, good people. I think they will be competing, i had great victory yesterday in South Carolina. It was amazing. New hampshire was amazing. The size of the victories i think were incredible. Yesterday i won every delegate. I won all seven congressional districts on top of having a big margin. That was a great victory. Were off to nevada, off to atlanta. Then i go to nevada where ill be for a couple of days i have lot of property out there, lot of great employees. I think i should do well in nevada. Dickerson if you get the nomination youd be shocked . Look again im competing against professional politicians, senators, top of the line. Ben carson is still in hes a terrific guy and a talented guy. Im competing against a lot o
The obama administration, but go even further thats why ive outlined a very significant agenda to raise wages and to take on the gun lobby and fob making america safe in every way that i can those are some of the differences that i have with my primary opponents, certainly very deep differences with all the republicans running. Dickerson this week another batch of emails were released by the state department. One of them is back and forth between you and a staffer about a secure fax that wont come through. You directed him to, quote, turn into nonpaper with no identifying heading and send nonsecure. Arent you ordering him to violate the laws on handling classified material there . No. Not at all. As the state Department Said just this week, that did not happen. It never would have happened because thats just not the way i treated classified headings are not classification notices and so oftentimes were trying to get the best information we can. Obviously what im asking for is whatever