Why is Nikki Haley losing to Donald Trump on home ground?

“I’M NOT GOINGUNUN anywhere,” Nikki Haley vowed in a recent speech on the state of the race for the . The former governor of South Carolina and former American ambassador to the meant that she would not drop out of the contest after her home-state primary on February 24th. But her campaign does not appear to be going anywhere in another sense: Donald Trump leads by some 60 points nationally and by 30 points in the state that she led for six years, from 2011 to 2017. How did a governor who was so popular during her tenure come to only a few years later?South Carolina elected Ms Haley as its governor by a 4.5-point margin in 2010. Four years later, she won re-election by nearly 15 points. Although she sometimes had a combative relationship with legislators from her party, around 57% of South Carolina voters approved of her performance in the months before she left the governor’s mansion to serve as Mr Trump’s ambassador. Among voters she was one of the former president’s most popular appointees.