As the Republican primary looms, Haley challenges Trump on her home turf

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump claimed that he selected Haley to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations in 2017 and represent America on the world stage only because he was motivated to make McMaster -- her second-in-command -- the governor of South Carolina.
66% : ""I wanted him because I felt he deserved it," Trump addedTrump, who has long been the front-runner in the GOP presidential race, won three states in a row and is looking to use South Carolina's Feb. 24 primary to close out Haley's chances and turn his focus fully on an expected rematch with Biden in the general election.
60% : Tim Carter, from nearby Murrells Inlet, said he had backed Trump since 2016 and would do so again this year.
58% : But I didn't put here there because I wanted her there at the United Nations," he said.
52% : Cheryl Savage from Conway, who was waiting on the bleachers to hear from Trump, said the former president is "here to help us."
51% : "He deserves a second term," Savage said, of Trump.
47% : Trump, turning his campaign focus to the southern state days after an easy victory in Nevada, revved up a huge crowd of supporters at a Saturday afternoon rally in Conway, near Myrtle Beach, by touting his time in office, repeating his false claims that the 2020 election he lost was rigged, maligning a news media he sees as biased against him and lobbing attacks on Haley and President Joe Biden.
44% : "We're here to stand for Trump, get our economy better, shut our border down, more jobs for our people," said Carter, a pastor and military veteran who runs an addiction recovery ministry.
40% : He also repeated his praise for foreign strongmen, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin "very smart, very sharp," describing Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as "one of the toughest guys," and saying Chinese President Xi Jinping is smart because he "controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.
36% : Trump, in his remarks and a social media post on Saturday, criticized foreign aid generally and a plan in Congress to provide nearly $100 billion in aid for Ukraine and Israel.
22% : Haley skipped the Nevada caucuses, condemning the contest as rigged for Trump, and has instead focused on South Carolina, kicking off a two-week bus tour across the state where she served as governor from 2011 to 2017.
18% : Bob Pollard, a retired firefighter, said he cannot support Trump because "he's a maniac," adding that Trump's campaign, in which he speaks frequently of "retribution" and his personal grievances, has "turned into a personal vendetta.
17% : In his rally speech, Trump insulted Haley by using his derisive nickname for her, "Birdbrain," and lavished praise on South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who endorsed him early.
14% : With two weeks to go before the South Carolina Republican primary, Nikki Haley is trying to challenge Donald Trump on her home turf while the former president tries to quash his last major rival's narrow path to the nomination.
8% : Speaking to about a couple hundred people gathered outside a historic opera house in Newberry, Haley on Saturday portrayed Trump as an erratic and self-absorbed figure not focused on the American people.

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