Nikki Haley staying in the GOP race even as Koch network pulls financial support

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now," Trump said in a victory night celebration in Columbia.
64% : "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Trump ally, said Trump was on "a pathway" to being able to clinch the nomination by mid-March.
63% : "South Carolina's most prominent Republicans stood with Trump, including U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, who endorsed him this past week.
55% : Fry said Trump would be the GOP nominee and the latest election results were "just further validation of that.
54% : With his win Saturday in the first-in-the South contest, Trump has now swept every primary or caucus on the GOP early-season calendar that awards delegates.
46% : AFP Action had endorsed Haley's campaign in November, promising to commit its nationwide coalition of activists -- and virtually unlimited funds -- to helping her defeat Trump, with door knockers fanning out across early-voting states and sending out dozens of mailers on her behalf.
45% : In the less than 24 hours following her Saturday night loss to Trump, Haley's campaign said that she had raised $1 million "from grassroots supporters alone," a bump they argued "demonstrates Haley's staying power and her appeal to broad swaths of the American public."
36% : In another tweak to her argument, as she pushes forward through the next batch of states to vote, Haley reiterated her comments from Saturday night that the fact she nearly notched 40% in South Carolina shows the stark percentage of voters who don't favor Trump, something she says would make it hard for him to win the general election.
35% : Irene Sulkowski of Daniel Island said she hoped Haley would soldier on, suggesting the former governor would be a more appealing general election candidate than Trump despite his popularity among the GOP base that powers the primary season.
29% : To U.S. Rep. Russell Fry, "this has always been a primary in name only" and that Trump was never in jeopardy of losing to Haley.
27% : Haley insists she is sticking around even with the growing pressure to abandon her candidacy and let Trump focus entirely on Democratic President Joe Biden, in a 2020 rematch.

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