{"id":1980706,"date":"2023-07-23T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-comes-second-in-south-carolina-gop-primary-poll-as-trump-holds-strong-lead\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:51:26","slug":"haley-comes-second-in-south-carolina-gop-primary-poll-as-trump-holds-strong-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-comes-second-in-south-carolina-gop-primary-poll-as-trump-holds-strong-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley places second in SC GOP primary poll, Trump maintains strong lead."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhaley-comes-second-in-south-carolina-gop-primary-poll-as-trump-holds-strong-lead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A New\u200b Poll\u2064 Reveals Trump&#8217;s Strong Lead in South Carolina Republican Primary<\/h2>\n<p>A new poll released on Sunday \u200bhas shed light\u2064 on the preferences of South \u200cCarolina likely Republican \u2063primary voters. The results show that almost half of\u200b the\u2062 voters are leaning towards former President\u2062 Donald Trump, making him the clear frontrunner. Former state Gov. Nikki\u200d Haley comes in second place.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox \u200cBusiness poll, which focuses on the GOP nomination race, indicates that\u2063 Trump enjoys a significant 34-point lead over his competitors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-times-ron-desantis-stood-up-to-the-media-and-went-viral\/\" title=\"8 Times Ron DeSantis Stood Up To The Media And Went Viral\">crowded primary field<\/a>. Haley trails far behind at 14%,\u2064 followed closely by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 13% and \u200bSen. Tim \u2064Scott (R-SC) at 10%. Other\u200b candidates\u2062 failed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-leads-in-republican-2024-primary-by-double-digits\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Leads In Republican 2024 Primary By Double Digits\">garner double-digit support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The initial challenge is to see who can become the non-Trump\u2062 candidate, and in South Carolina, that\u2019s currently a three-way race among\u2062 DeSantis, \u200dHaley, and Scott,&#8221; GOP pollster\u200b Daron\u2064 Shaw said, emphasizing that Trump still commands the most attention at this early stage of the race.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s strongest support comes from those who identify as very conservative (57%), voters aged 45 or younger (55%), and non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-build-back-better-budget-includes-80b-wealth-transfer-to-illegal-aliens\/\" title=\"Biden's 'Build Back Better' Budget Includes B Wealth Transfer to Illegal Aliens\">-college-educated voters<\/a> (53%). DeSantis also enjoys similar support among\u2063 these\u2064 groups, while Haley and Scott draw their support\u2062 from moderates.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump maintains a \u2064significant lead over his GOP competitors on a national scale, speculation has arisen regarding his attendance at \u2064the first 2024 Republican\u200b presidential primary debate on August 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also revealed that 57% of respondents\u2063 believe it\u200d is a sign of \u200bweakness if a candidate chooses to\u2063 skip a debate, while 29% view it as a display of strength. Trump has yet to make a decision on whether he will participate in the upcoming debate.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted from July 15-19, surveyed 808 likely participants in the South Carolina Republican primary.\u200c The margin of error for the poll is plus or minus 3.5 percentage\u2063 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll reveals that nearly half of South Carolina&#8217;s potential Republican primary voters will support former President Donald Trump, while former state Governor Nikki Haley trails in second place. The Fox Business poll indicates Trump&#8217;s significant 34-point lead over the other candidates, leaving Haley far behind in the crowded primary race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}