Want to vote early too. I will go vote early. Reporter they cast an absentee ballot. We expect, you know, half the voters voting on saturday. The primary is on saturday and 33,000 people have already voted for it. The democratic primary is in a week and 14 people have cast that ballot. If you want to vote absentee, get it back to the electiti office. If you havent done it. Something that we do and take pride in. A lot of sacrifices were made to have the right to do so. Reporter even though we had record breaking absentee voting, the patterns for primaries are not very high in the state. It has been 13 . Remember, we have a unique opportunity to vote in a saturday at 7 00 to vote in the republican primary and a week for the democratic one. Backcko you. Thank you. Jeb bush campaigning in columbia today. Talked about reforming veterans affairs, growing the economy and shifting apower power away from washington. He worked with governor nikki haley. Many thinks he would get her endorsement
3 3 the nations first in the south gop primary is this saturday and several candidates are continuing their Campaign Across the palmetto state today. The first is former florida governer jeb bush. Hell be in rock hill first this morning at 9 talking totopotential voters at ebenezer grill. Then at 10 30 hell be here in columbia at Fn Manufacturing for a business tour and employee town hall. 3 ben carson will make also make several Campaign Stops across the state today. Hes scheduled to appear in gaffney. Roebuck and aiken. At one point. Carson was polling second in south carolina. But recent polls show him near the bottom of 3 ted cruz will hold a National Veterans for cruz coaltition event tonight. He will be joined by Texas Governor rick perry and represenative jeff duncan. Its going on from 3 until 4 pm at the columbia armory on until 8 30 cruz will be in anderson at the civic center. 3 Ohio Governor john kasich will be in lexington county tonight. Hes holding a town hall meeting at
Meteorlogist 3 efren afante. 3 3 3 3 primary with no big surprises at the top. Cbss Danielle Nottingham has the primary results from manchester, new hampshire. 3 narr1 cbs news is projecting donald trump is the winner of new hampshires republican president ial primary. sot trump ew hampshire i want to thank you. We love you, we e gonna be back a lot. We won forget you. narr2 exit poll data showed that nearly half of Republican Voters wanted a political outsider. sot mike ledoux trump supporter hes a little different from everyone else. Hes not a politician for one nats narr2 john kasichs intensive ground game paid off. With cbs news projecting a second place finish for the Ohio Governor sot kasich onight darkness of negative bridge trump won with broad support from independent also key for the democratic winner. narr3 cbs news is projecting democrat Bernie Sanders scored a significant victory over Hillary Clinton. quick sot e won, energy and excitement that the succeed in 3 november. n
The field of 17 has been reduceed to six, ben carson, jeb bush, ted cruz, marco rubio, donald trump and jan kasich. Reporter in a few hours the Convention Center will be the prime location for many to see the primary results. Weve gone from 16 down to six and now theyre waiting and still have a long way to go for the nomination in the summer. On the republican side, after eight years of obama, everybody figured oh, well this will be my turn. Jeb bush,. Kristina ti, ted cruz, rand paul, rick perry, marco rubio, rick santorum, donald trump, scott walker and more thought 2016 would be their year. Scott hoffman says all of the candidates just muttleed the field for voters. When you have so many people you just hear i believe this and that without policy discussion and you end up having debate winners by who throughout the best snipeing lane. Reporter back in april of last year scott walker was in the lead with South Carolina voters and jeb bush right behind him. Thats a different outlook f
Stagreen fertilizer, at lowes. Coming up on news19 this morning. Severe storms are expected to make their way into the palmetto state later this morning. Meteoroligst efefn afante will have your full weather forecast. 3 plus. Sumter county continues to grow. Hear what Officials Say they have planned for the countys future. 3 and litle ceasars pizza is offering a free lunch. The details on where their love kitchen will be today. News19 this morning starts right now. 3 3 at least 3 people are dead after severe storms rolled through the south bringing with them tornadoes. Now those storms could impact us here in the palmetto state. Good morning and thanks for joining us on news19 this morning. Im deon guilloryand of that Severe Weather it might be a good idea to go out and buy a Weather Radio. 3 today news19 is hosting Weather Radio expo. It is from 8am 8pm, at the kroger located at the corner of two notch and sparkleberry in northeast columbia. You will be able to buy a new Weather Radio