As the two leading candidates for the White House intensify their campaigns in preparation for the state’s primary election later this month, a new poll shows former President Trump has a 35-5 lead in his home state of South Carolina over Republican challenger Nikki Haley. He has a points lead.
Tuesday’s CBS News/YouGov poll It found that Haley had the support of 30% of likely Republican voters in the Palmetto State, while Trump secured 65%.
Despite disappointing results in New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada, Haley is confident South Carolina voters will support her after serving as the state’s governor from 2011 to 2017. expressed confidence.
However, pollsters believe this may not be the case. In a sample of 1,004 likely South Carolina Republicans, 75% said they had no doubt that Haley was from their state. About 20% said it would make them more likely to vote for her, and 5% said it would make them less likely to vote for her.
Opinion polls also showed that Trump had higher approval ratings during their respective terms in office. About 82% of survey participants said they approved of Trump’s job as president, while 15% disapproved. Haley’s approval rating as governor was 22 points lower, with 60% approving and 22% disapproving.
Haley, who also served as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, was perceived as more “likeable” than Trump, with 52% of respondents saying that word described her better, compared to 32% said the same about the president.
However, polls showed that more Republican primary voters used adjectives such as “tough,” “ready” and “strong leader” for Trump than for Haley. Eighty-one percent of voters said the former president was “fighting” for people like them, and 56% said the same about Haley.
Voters in the Palmetto State also poured cold water on Haley’s assertion that President Biden has a better chance of winning the general election than Trump.
Approximately 55% said Trump would “definitely beat Biden,” and 33% said the same about Haley. The majority of respondents (42%) said she “might defeat” the president, several percentage points higher than the 34% who said the same about President Trump. However, 25% said Haley was far from defeating Biden, compared to 11% for Trump.
A majority of Trump candidates in the state surveyed in the poll did not think his various legal battles were a reason to consider Haley instead, with 77% disagreeing with this assertion. Only 23% of people agreed.
Forty-nine percent of all Republican primary voters surveyed said they would be fit to serve as president if the former president was convicted, while 22% said he was not and 29% said it would depend on the charges.
Both candidates are focused on South Carolina, holding a series of rallies ahead of the state’s Feb. 24 primary. Haley began a two-week bus tour across the state last Saturday.
Trump leads Haley by more than 30 points in South Carolina and more than 60 points nationally, according to an average of polls maintained by The Hill and Decision Desk Headquarters.
The CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted from February 5th to 10th among 1,483 registered voters in South Carolina, including 1,004 likely Republican primary voters. The sample margin of error is 3 points.
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