Haley challenges Trump on her home turf ahead of Republican primary in South Carolina

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60% : Tim Carter, from nearby Murrells Inlet, said he had backed Trump since 2016 and would do so again this year.
53% : Nikki Haley sets sights on South Carolina in uphill climb against TrumpTrump, turning his campaign focus to the southern state days after an easy victory in Nevada, is expected to rev up his supporters at a Saturday afternoon rally in Conway, near Myrtle Beach.
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, who has long been the front-runner in the GOP presidential race, won three contests 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 Democratic President Joe Biden in the general election.
45% : Pollard 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."In Conway, people began lining up to see Trump hours before the doors opened to the arena where he was set to take the stage later.
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.
30% : How Haley staying in GOP race could spell problems for TrumpHarlie O'Connell, a longtime South Carolina resident who backs Haley, said she is excited to vote in the presidential primary for a woman from her home state.
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.
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.
13% : Bob Pollard, a retired firefighter, said Haley showed "level-headedness" that Trump lacks in the way she responded to the 2015 shooting at a Charleston church in which a white supremacist killed nine Black members of the congregation.
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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