The polls have now closed at 7 p.m. We are waiting to see whether we will have a call in one direction or another or a too early to call that has been the case in a few of the contests we've has and as you can

see there and I'm learning this as I see it on your

screen myself. We do have a call. We have projected a winner at polls closing and that

projected winner of course is the essential incumbent in this race. Donald Trump, the The

projected winner of course is the essential incumbent in this race.

The previous president before Joe Biden, the person who seems to be in a

poll position for the nomination.

We're making that call at 7 PM in about 7 seconds which suggests

what we'll see start to come in when the actual data follows on and speaking of that data. Let me go back to

Rachel. Your reaction to us, our decision desk, which again totally independent of us, we

only learn about it when we see it

up there on your screen but the call that Donald Trump has emerged victorious

in the South Carolina primary Rachel your I mean, a poll closing call is definitive,

and it puts an exclamation point on the result effectively.

It's not a total surprise.

But I think what you just said about incumbency, Chris, is important.

There's never been a Republican presidential candidate who wasn't an incumbent president

already, who won Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina.

Only Republican incumbents have ever done that.

Donald Trump technically is not running as an incumbent right now, but he has just pulled that off and his

margins were double digits well we don't know what the margin will be in South

Carolina tonight but with a poll closing call I think we're all surmising

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