Donald Trump is one step closer to the Republican presidential nomination after a massive win over Nikki Haley in South Carolina.
The former president won his primary opponent’s home state by a 20-point margin, his fourth consecutive victory.
As he celebrated Mr Trump made no mention of Ms Haley, who vowed to stay in the race. Instead he set his sights on the general election in November.
That will be a likely rematch with his successor in the White House.
“We’re going to look Joe Biden right in the eye,” he told supporters minutes after US media projected him as the winner on Saturday night. “He’s destroying our country – and we’re going to say ‘get out Joe, you’re fired’.”
Mr Trump lauded his party’s “unity” after Saturday’s result, saying: “There’s never been a spirit like this. I have never seen the Republican Party so unified.”
It marked a shift from his response to last month’s primary in New Hampshire, where he raged against Ms Haley for “doing a speech like she won”.
Ms Haley, who once served as a popular two-term governor of South Carolina, congratulated her opponent on his victory in her speech.
She promised not to quit, however, saying the roughly 40% of the vote she received was “not some tiny group”.
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