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HOW DID HALEY’S SOUTH CAROLINA BECOME TRUMP COUNTRY? ASK THE TEA PARTY.

Veterans of the conservative, grass-roots movement see the state’s presidential
primary as a fight between a “crazy uncle” and a “snowflake niece.” They’ve made
their choice.

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Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign is fighting for survival in her home state.
The grass-roots conservatives who once embraced her have abandoned her for
Donald J. Trump.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times


By Charles Homans

Reporting from Aiken, S.C.

Feb. 23, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ET
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When Nikki Haley ran for governor of South Carolina in 2010, one of her early
campaign stops was the Aiken, S.C., living room of Claude and Sunny O’Donovan.

Mr. O’Donovan, the co-founder of a local Tea Party group, had invited Ms. Haley
and other candidates to make their case to the conservative activists of Aiken
County, a heavily Republican enclave of golf courses and retirement communities.
The crowd that gathered around the O’Donovans’ coffee table numbered only a
couple of dozen. But the retired couple was smitten.

“We fell in love with her,” Mr. O’Donovan, 85, said. “She was a dynamite gal.”

A digital picture frame in the O’Donovans’ home still displays a photograph of
Ms. Haley at the meeting. But on Feb. 24, when Ms. Haley faces Donald J. Trump
in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary, both of the O’Donovans plan
to vote for Mr. Trump.

“I think he has the values of the Tea Party,” Mrs. O’Donovan, 84, said. “It was
for the people, and I see Trump as being for the people.”



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Recent polls show Mr. Trump leading Ms. Haley by 36 points in South Carolina. A
decisive loss would move the Republican nomination further out of reach and
provide a painful coda to her political career in her home state.

A Trump win in South Carolina would also write the final chapter of one of the
most important political stories of the last decade: the story of how Mr. Trump
entered politics amid a transformative grass-roots movement and then absorbed
that movement into his own.

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Charles Homans is a reporter for The Times and The Times Magazine, covering
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