Former President Donald J. Trump brought up to New Hampshire a large group of South Carolina politicians led by Gov. Henry McMaster, who spoke on behalf of the former president against, among others, their state’s former governor, Nikki Haley.
“I love your motto,” said South Carolina House Speaker Murrell Smith, referring to New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” motto.
“We’re going to be there,” President Trump said of South Carolina in a rally at the Southern New Hampshire University Arena in Manchester on Jan. 20—just three days before New Hampshire’s Jan. 23 Republican and Democratic primaries.
The moment laid bare Ms. Haley’s struggle to command support from other Republicans in her home state, where polling shows President Trump with a commanding lead among prospective primary voters.
RealClearPolitics’ latest polling average has President Trump above 50 percent and Ms. Haley below 22 percent in the state…
