Today is the last day to cast your ballot in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary
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Polls in South Carolina will close at 7 p.m., and Ms. Haley is expected to speak in Charleston once the winner is declared. The Trump campaign will hold a watch party in Columbia where the former president is scheduled to speak.
There are few reliable polls ahead of the South Carolina primary, so any data that is taken should be taken with a grain of salt. The polls have Trump leading by more than 30 percentage points.
The Lowcountry, Pee Dee, the Midlands and the Upstate are political regions. Donald Trump won the primary in 2016 with a 32%, and it was spread out with him winning all but two of the state’s 46 counties. He lost Charleston County and the home to Columbia, the state capital.
However, in South Carolina, voters are significantly more conservative, which presents significant hurdles for Haley. Even though she’s been governor twice in the last decade, that doesn’t mean she’s Teflon.
Independents are allowed to vote in the South Carolina primary, as per Haley’s team. The majority of South Carolina GOP primary voters in 2016 were Republicans.
In Iowa, 82% of caucusgoers identified as Republicans, and Trump won there by 30 percentage points. In New Hampshire, 50% of primary voters identified as Republicans, and there he won by 11 points.
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The amount of campaign ad spending crossed the $300 million threshold this week, and a super committee supporting Haley has spent more than $65 million.
Even though Trump appears to have majority support in the party, there is clearly a wealthy and significant segment of those right of center who want her to stay in and, to this point, are willing to spend to do it.
She has a lot of concerns about Trump returning to the presidency. “I have even more concerns about Joe Biden being president. I mean, you look at both of these men and all they have done is given us chaos, all they have given us is division.”
So far, though, an electability argument — that Haley is the best positioned candidate to defeat President Biden — hasn’t resonated with base Republican voters. Trump leads by an average of more than 60 points in national polls, and no single day will be closer to a national primary than Super Tuesday.
Betsy Ankney said on the call that the math is challenging, but this has never been about who will win the Republican primary. This battle is about who can win in November, defeat the Democrats and finally get our country back on track.”
Super Tuesday, which lands on March 5, is the single biggest primary day of the year with voters in 15 states and one territory going to the polls to cast their preference for a nominee. It costs a lot to try and win over voters in many states, and that demographic makeup doesn’t fit in Haley’s favor.
Acknowledging the race is an uphill climb, Nikki Haley’s campaign Friday said it will be launching a “seven-figure” national cable and digital ad buy that will take it through at least Super Tuesday.
She also pledged that she would continue campaigning until “the last person votes.” She later told NPR she would stay in though at least Super Tuesday, which is on March 5.
“I haven’t actually sat down and thought about what comes after that,” Haley said. Our goal was to have more people’s voices heard, so we focused on South Carolina and the Super Tuesday vote, which resulted in 20 states voting.
Nikki Haley’s last push before the primary: support is strong, but doesn’t mean she’ll win [in-ka-hawaii]
The diner is often a hub for local activity, hosting events for politicians including Haley in the past. Today though, it’s a construction zone, as the town recovers from a major tornado that tore through in January.
The roof blew off when the restaurant flooded. But she was happy to host a few residents from the area, who gathered around a table to talk about Haley’s last push before the primary.
Sharon Carter is the chairwoman of the Bamberg County Republican Party. She cannot officially support any candidate in the state’s primary on Saturday.
Carter said it was “insane” that people chose Trump in her hometown. “Because people who do know her know that she’s an authentically real person.”
Boyce says Haley – who’s also a former ambassador to the United Nations – was a good governor for South Carolina during the six years she led the state.
The removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse was a cause for opposition, because of the racist killing of nine people at a church in Charleston.
He said he’s as Southern as you can get. “But that’s a thing of the past. Whether or not you like to hear it, it stood for slavery. It stood for something. It was a sign of division in our country.
Source: In Nikki Haley’s hometown, support is strong. But that doesn’t mean she’ll win[](https://npr.org/2024/02/24/1233549539/nikki-haley-south-carolina-primary-bamberg-voters-election-day)
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Crosby-Lee was stopping by a local lunch spot on Thursday with her mother, who still lives nearby. She wishes Haley would do more to help the town’s economy. She doesn’t see value in Haley continuing her campaign even if she can’t beat Trump.
Mary Jane remembers Haley as a “well-mannered” child who became an “amazing young lady” who’s made her home state proud. She contrasts Haley’s temperament with Trump’s.
“He did some good things for America, but he is just such a bully,” she says. “And well, he does not have any characteristics that we want any of our grandchildren to have.”
Mary Jane thinks she wouldn’t vote for Trump again, despite having supported him in the past. Randy Maxwell says he’s never voted for Trump and never will.
“It will not look good for her,” he says. “It will not look good for any candidate if you don’t win your home state. They’re not going to change because Trump has so much base.
Trump and Haley will contest the Republican primary in South Carolina on Saturday. There are polls that show Mr. Trump with a large lead.
As we saw in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary last month, the speed of a race call can give the victor — in both of those cases Mr. Trump — a sense of momentum, even an air of inevitability. Iowa was called for Mr. Trump before the caucuses had even ended.
An early night for the two remaining candidates will say a lot about where the race is heading as they turn to Michigan next week ahead of Super Tuesday on March 5, when 15 states will vote to award 874 of 2,429 Republican delegates.
Poll after poll has found that most Americans do not relish a rematch between President Biden and Mr. Trump, the major party nominees in 2020. Mr. Biden won the Democratic primary in South Carolina on Feb. 8 with more than 96 percent of the vote. For the low end of an expected turnout, 131,302 people voted.
South Carolina: From a Top-Family State to a Bottom-Up State: The Case for President Donald J. Haley
The state of South Carolina is divided into three parts: Upstate around Greenville andSpartanburg, where the question is, what church do you belong to?; the states capital of Columbia, where the question is, what agency do you work for?; and the mellower part of the state
In the South you can find mansions in Charleston and Beaufort, golf on Hilton Head, and beach houses in the Charleston suburbs of Isle of Palms and Sullivan’s Island. Haley country should be the topic of the Lowcountry.
A surge of newcomers from New York and New Jersey has swelled more middle-class suburbs around Charleston and Horry County. They weren’t with Governor Haley.
How this region votes will speak to Mr. Trump’s appeal with the educated, affluent Republicans who once controlled the party, and with suburbanites not influenced by their prior experience with Ms. Haley.
