COLUMBIA, S.C. ─ Gov. Nikki Haley hasn’t made up her mind yet on which GOP candidate she will support in Saturday’s primary, but she knows it will not be Donald Trump.
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In a state where 65 percent of the 2012 Republican primary voters identified as Christian conservatives in exit polls, Trump barely led Cruz, 27 percent to 26 percent, on the question of which candidate most represented their values, well within the margin of error.
Rubio had said Tuesday, “We’d love to have her endorsement”.
“I would love her endorsement”, Rubio said during a lunch with reporters on Tuesday.
Mr Rubio said that Mrs Haley, who has an 81 per cent approval rating among South Carolina Republicans, “embodies and exemplifies what I want the Republican party to be known as in the 21st century”.
With just days to go until Saturday’s South Carolina GOP presidential primary, businessman Donald Trump holds a 16-point lead over his next-closest competitor, Sen.
The appearance of the elder Bush on the campaign trail may help Jeb Bush with South Carolina Republicans who hold the former president in high regard.
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“I am pro-life and I do not support tax payer funding for Planned Parenthood as long as they are performing abortions”, Trump said in a statement.
Cruz said today that he was merely using Trump’s own words.
Trump, meanwhile, has relentlessly knocked Cruz in interviews, speeches and on Twitter, calling the Texas senator a “liar” and “unstable”. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 6% and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Dr. Ben Carson are both at 4% each. “They are in default of their pledge”, he said.
“All of the sloganeering and all of the talk doesn’t matter if we don’t win”, George W. Bush said. Bernie Sanders. Clinton is counting on strong support among African-Americans who twice backed her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to counter Sanders’ surprisingly strong insurgent campaign. “And it was done specifically to make it look like no Republicans in SC like Trump”, the conservative radio icon added. “Because we don’t want a president that’s just going to bash and sit there and tell us what we’re not doing right”.
“In many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media or politics, there’s a tendency to falsely equate noise with results”, she said.
“If there was ever an award that a Republican politician should be ashamed to receive, that’s it”, Cruz said.
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“Like a freight train barreling through signals with his horn on full blast, Trump heads down the track towards a possible nomination”, Malloy said.
