{"id":53418,"date":"2016-02-20T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gop_rivals_make_final_push_in_south_carolina_as_voters_head_to_polls\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:00:34","slug":"gop_rivals_make_final_push_in_south_carolina_as_voters_head_to_polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53418","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) GOP rivals make final push in South Carolina as voters head to polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters headed to the polls Saturday in the Republican primary contest here, the first in the South, as front-runner Donald Trump looked to hold off rivals in a still-crowded GOP field.<\/p>\n<p>The final days of campaigning in state featured allegations and counterclaims of dirty tricks, long a tradition in the state. At the same time, Mr. Trump continued to dominate headlines and flirt with fresh controversy, calling for a boycott of Apple Inc. on Friday over phone encryption, just after he appeared to make peace following a spat with the Vatican and softened his attacks over the runup to the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>In South Carolina, Mr. Trump was the top pick of 28% of likely Republican primary voters, according to a new Wall Street Journal\/NBC News\/Marist poll held in the final days before Saturday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/gop-rivals-make-final-push-in-south-carolina-as-voters-head-to-polls-1455969766\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters headed to the polls Saturday in the Republican primary contest here, the first in the South, as front-runner Donald Trump looked to hold off rivals in a still-crowded GOP field. The final days of campaigning in state featured allegations<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53418\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,54,209,168,616,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}