Of the South Carolina in the South Carolina capital and across the state, the First Southern showdown, the 2024 republican president ial 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 cnns live special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary. Im Anderson Cooper and im 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 headtohead on haleys 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 hes juggling Court Appearances and indictments, he faces his first criminal trial next month. This could be haleys last chance to slow trumps March
Of the South Carolina in the South Carolina capital and across the state, the First Southern showdown, the 2024 republican president ial 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 cnns live special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary. Im Anderson Cooper and im 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 headtohead on haleys 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 hes juggling Court Appearances and indictments, he faces his first criminal trial next month. This could be haleys last chance to slow trumps March
the vote to come in. we expect donald trump to be the winner. we are standing by to hear donald trump speak about his victory. we heard from nikki haley a short while ago. here is a little bit of what she said. the other day, donald trump accused me of not providing security at the capitol on january 6. i have long called for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75. trump claims he would do better than me in one of those tests. maybe he would. maybe he wouldn t. but if he thinks that, them he should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me. tough words from nikki haley. let s go to kristin holmes. i don t suppose there s any second guessing about trump s campaign strategy to avoid all debates or interviews with anybody that might ask a tough question much the gauntlet has been thrown down by governor haley this evening. reporter: it has. i have no reason to believe that donald trump is going to take her up on that offer. i asked about this n
plus, nikki haley shifting strategy as she fights to win her home state of south carolina. and she s now attacking trump head on. bring it, donald. show me what you got. [ cheers and applause ] also ahead, former trump adviser peter navarro set to be sentenced this hour for criminal contempt of congress, how much time could he face behind bars? and later, flash flooding turning roads to rivers all across the south, we are tracking where all this extreme weather is headed next. it is 10:00 eastern, great to be with you. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, any in a moment now the civil trial against donald trump for defamation of e. jean carroll is set to resume after a three-day delay, and these are live pictures outside the courthouse. the former president is of course fresh off his new hampshire primary victory arriving at the new york courthouse a short time ago. that s when he arrived these images just moments ago. he and his attorney say he will testify in
immediately. we believe that joe biden has been blackmailed by this for years, which would explain why he acts the way he does ukraine has tapes of joe biden. ukraine has tapes of hunter biden. the highly credible fbi informant says that the burisma executive who allegedly bribed joe biden $5 million to fire the prosecutor has audio recordings of joe and of hunter. these audio recordings were kept as an insurance policy in case the burisma executive got cornered. here with senator grassley on the senate floor moments ago revealing for the first time that joe and hunter biden may have been captured on recordings with the burisma executive in ukraine. are you ready? 17 different times grassley reveals that joe biden may have gotten hunter biden hired at burisma and if you thought couldn t get any more corrupt, it does. the fbi, when it finally released this document with these allegations to house oversight? redacted out the part about the audio recording. the 1023 produced t