Trump continues to hold commanding lead over GOP rival Nikki Haley as they look forward to South Carolina primary

By Fox News Staff Fox News

Published January 18, 2024 8:35pm ESTUpdated February 14, 2024 11:21am EST

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Nikki Haley is staying in the presidential primary race as former President Trump dominates the polls in her home state of South Carolina.

Trump continues to hold a massive lead in the GOP primary in South Carolina, where Haley was twice elected as governor before joining the Trump administration as U.N. ambassador.

“I promise you this, I am in this fight. I will take the bruises. I will take the cuts,” Haley told supporters Monday at a Greenville, S.C., event. “This is going to be messy and I’ll take the hurt because I believe nothing good comes easy. Sometimes we have to feel pain to appreciate the blessing.”

Trump and his supporters have continued their blistering attacks against Haley, who is his last remaining major rival in the race to the GOP nomination.

Haley recently has criticized Trump for seeking to turn the Republican National Committee into a personal “piggy bank,” and insists that Trump cannot win the general election in November.

“There will be a woman president in America. It’s either going to be me or it’s going to be Kamala Harris. And I don’t want a Kamala Harris for president. So the first thing we have to understand is Trump cannot beat Biden in an election,” Haley said last month.

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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

DEMOCRAT DELEGATE COUNT AFTER NEVADA:

President Biden, left, and Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. (AP Photo)

ONE NEW POLL: Trump, the commanding frontrunner for the Republican nomination as he makes his third straight bid for the White House, stands at 63% support among those likely to vote in Saturday’s Republican presidential primary, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today survey released on Tuesday.

Haley, a former two-term Palmetto State governor who later served as ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, stands at 35% in the poll, which was conducted Feb. 15-18. The survey is the latest this month to suggest Haley faces a steep uphill climb in her home state.

ONE PARDON PROMISE: GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Sunday she would pardon former President Trump if he is convicted of a federal crime. “I would pardon Donald Trump because I think it’s important for the country to move on,” Haley said during a Fox News town hall in South Carolina. “We’ve got to leave the negativity… behind.”

Trump, the current GOP frontrunner, is facing multiple legal hurdles, with the most recent development out of his New York civil fraud casebeing he was barred from operating his business in New York and fined more than $350 million.

ONE ‘TOUGH DAY’: Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips announced Friday that he had to lay off “a lot” of his campaign staff as he faces difficulties raising enough cash to operate his campaign the way he wants to, but said he will remain in the race for the White House.

“I found it almost impossible to raise enough to do this campaign the way I want. And today, sadly, I had to announce layoffs to a lot of my staff members,” Phillips, who currently represents Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District in the House, said in a video shared to X.