Fact-checking Trump and Haley's war of words

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72% : Trump similarly claimed on Truth Social that Haley "was also a Barack Hussein Obama supporter as seen here."
56% : As of Friday, the Real Clear Politics average, which incorporates multiple polls, showed Trump ahead of Biden by 1.9 percentage points.
56% : After that meeting in February 2018, Sen. Thomas Carper, a Democrat, said Trump had endorsed the idea to pay for an infrastructure plan released by the White House.
51% : In a 2015 Facebook comment, Haley clearly indicated she supported the state proposal, saying that "the legislature knows that if they send it to me, I will sign it.""Donald Trump needs to answer to the fact that why did he propose an 18-cent per gallon gas tax increase in 2018 when he was president?" --
50% : "There are elements of Trump's vision that remain unclear, including whether the new tariff would apply to imports from countries with which the United States has free trade deals, as The New York Times has reported.
48% : However, Haley also could have been referring to state-level "fair tax" legislation that lawmakers in South Carolina -- and elsewhere -- were proposing around that time, calling for the elimination of specific state taxes, including the income tax, in favor of a higher state sales tax.
48% : The ad cites a January CNBC article about comments Trump made in an August interview with Fox Business.
43% : Instead, some lawmakers said that Trump had entertained the idea of increasing the gas tax by 25 cents -- not 18 cents -- during a private, bipartisan meeting.
42% : "What is Trump saying he'll actually do in office?
40% : But Trump comes in slightly higher than his successor in many -- though not all -- surveys.
38% : Trump hasn't proposed a "10% across-the-board tax increase" on Americans, but he did float a proposal to impose a 10% tariff on imported goods -- which economists say would affect prices for U.S. companies and consumers.
37% : -- Haley, referring to Trump during a Fox News town hall this month.
37% : She said in 2015, when Trump launched his first bid for the presidency, that a wall was not the sole answer.To support its claim about the border wall, the ad cites a 2023 Time article.
34% : It was not the first time Trump had signaled openness to a gas tax hike.
33% : In yet other polls, Biden holds a slight lead over Trump.
31% : "I think when companies come in and they dump their products in the United States, they should pay automatically, let's say, a 10% tax," Trump told Larry Kudlow, who served as director of the National Economic Council during the Trump administration.
29% : And in January 2018, The Washington Post, citing an unidentified person familiar with the deliberations, reported that Trump had privately "mused about a gas tax increase to 50 cents per gallon.
28% : "Nevertheless, Trump never formally put forward such proposals.
22% : Haley did not oppose Trump's border wall.
20% : His campaign suggested that her staying in the race, despite being well behind Trump in delegates, was "like any wailing loser hellbent on an alternative reality."
19% : Trump never formally proposed a gas tax increase, as Haley suggested.
17% : (However, the results shifted in Biden's favor when the respondents were asked to consider the same matchup if Trump were to be convicted of a felony.)
11% : Trump has mocked the absence of Haley's husband, Maj.
8% : In recent weeks, Trump and Haley, former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, have dialed up their attacks on each other.
8% : For example, Morning Consult recently found Trump leading Biden by 4 points, outside the survey's margin of error.
8% : "Nikki Haley joined Biden in opposing President Trump's border wall."
1% : Other polls show Trump leading Biden, albeit within the margin of error: an NBC News poll in January surveying registered voters found that 47% said they would vote for Trump, compared with Biden's 42%.

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