Poll shows Nikki Haley losing ground in her home state among likely GOP voters

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50% : That compares to more than 70% of those voting for Trump being with him from the beginning, according to the results.
44% : That state-run contest was largely symbolic, with Trump participating in a separate caucus run by the Republican Party that actually counted for delegates.
40% : Nikki Haley is '100 percent correct' to 'raise red flags' about Trump's mental fitness: radio hostCOLUMBIA -- Republican support for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dwindled in her home state over the last few months while Donald Trump's already commanding lead grew, according to the latest Winthrop Poll released Wednesday.
39% : But among all of the state's registered voters, Haley would beat Biden by a few more percentage points than Trump, according to the poll.
37% : The poll, conducted after Trump won the New Hampshire GOP primary, shows the former president with a whopping 36 percentage-point lead over Haley among those likely to vote in South Carolina's Feb. 24 contest.
36% : But Trump has the support of nearly three of every four Republicans, according to the poll, which surveyed 1,717 registered voters from Feb. 2 to Feb. 10.South Carolina voters do not register by party, so any registered voter who did not participate in the Democratic primary can cast a ballot.
35% : More of his supporters went to Haley than Trump, despite Scott endorsing Trump ahead of the New Hampshire primary.
35% : "I had assumed that supporters of the candidate running as 'Trump-Lite' would migrate to Trump, but Haley showed a surprising pull for these voters who were apparently looking for a Trump alternative," said the director of Winthrop University's Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research.
22% : "That seems to correspond with her increasing attacks on Trump," Huffmon said.
21% : "The percentage of South Carolina voters who like or dislike Trump remains about evenly split.
14% : Haley did not campaign in the state, calling the caucus rigged for Trump, but a landslide loss to nobody was seen as an embarrassment.

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