Nikki Haley challenges Trump on her home turf in South Carolina

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Trump, 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.
44% : Trump, who has long been the frontrunner in the GOP presidential race, won three contests in a row and is looking to use South Carolina's Feb. 24 primary to shutter Haley's chances and turn his focus fully on an expected rematch with Democratic President Biden in the general election.
42% : AdvertisementPollard cannot support Trump because "he's a maniac" and said his campaign, in which he speaks frequently of "retribution" and his 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.
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% : Speaking to about a couple hundred people gathered outside a historic opera house in Newberry Saturday morning, Haley painted Trump as someone an erratic and self-absorbed figure not focused on the American people.
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.

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