How Marco Rubio edged out Ted Cruz for second in S.C. (hint: Nikki Haley helped)

In South Carolina, Marco Rubio barely eclipsed Ted Cruz for second place, beating him by less than two-tenths of a percentage point with almost all votes tallied.

The result confirms a late surge in polling for Rubio, and the network exit poll shows it was fueled by the upper-class pragmatists of the Republican Party — a coalition that skews wealthier, more-educated and cosmopolitan — just the type of Republican who is apprehensive about Donald Trump becoming the party’s nominee. CONT.

Scott Clement & Emily Guskin, Washington Post

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