It wasn’t business as usual this weekend for lowest common denominator pleaser Donald Trump, the people of South Carolina giving him more than an earful at Saturday’s Republican presidential candidates’ debate in Greenville.

Trump went at Jeb Bush hard over his brother Dubya’s stance on Iraq and the attacks of 9/11, something that didn’t go down well with the crowd.

You’ll get a decent sense from that video up top, although this little nugget shows how the animosity swelled as he talked about 9/11:

“The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush.” — @realDonaldTrump to @JebBush on his … https://t.co/UGHdLcUjPm

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 14, 2016

I guess we can only hope boos translate into a lack of votes, Trump still riding the wave of good feeling following his New Hampshire victory last week. These numbers from IBT show that despite the audience reaction DT may still do well in the state:

In an Augusta Chronicle, Morris News Service and WAGA–TV poll that surveyed 779 South Carolinian respondents Feb. 10 through 11, 36 percent of likely GOP voters supported Trump. His next closest challengers in the Chronicle poll were Cruz, who garnered 20 percent; Rubio, who garnered 15 percent; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who garnered 11 percent; Kasich, who garnered 9 percent; and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who garnered 5 percent.

Those numbers were taken before Saturday’s debate mind you, so here’s hoping his showing encourages people to engage their brains and look elsewhere for a leader of the free world.

[source:ibt]