Haley plans a two-week bus tour before South Carolina's GOP primary as Trump returns to the state
Nikki Haley is launching a bus tour before South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary on Feb. 24
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is launching a bus tour before South Carolina's Republican presidential primary on Feb. 24, hoping the two-week push will show the former governor's commitment to her home state heading into the first-in-the-South vote.
It's a tall order in a state where support remains strong for former President Donald Trump, the GOP front-runner who has won the year's earliest nominating contests and is poised to pick up more delegates in Nevada's caucuses on Thursday.
Haley's bus tour kicks off Saturday, with its first stops planned in Newberry, Greenwood, Lexington and Orangeburg counties. According to the campaign, visits are also planned for Bamberg, Clemson and Lexington, to mark the places where Haley grew up, attended college and raised her children.
The tour is aiming to ramp up interest in South Carolina's early-voting period, which begins Monday, according to Haley's campaign. It's also a complement to her repeated critiques of Trump for not spending time in the state, as she's crisscrossed it, holding nearly a dozen campaign events across South Carolina in the past two weeks.
