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.
Haley's bus tour kicks off Saturday, with its first stops planned in Newberry, Greenwood, Lexington and Orangeburg counties.
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.
She's poked fun at Trump for declining to debate her, a tack also taken by a super political action committee supporting her bid.
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