From the Washington Post: How different groups voted in the South Carolina primary, according to exit polls

Another look at the factions within the Republican Party - at least in South Carolina - based on exit polls. Voters in the Republican Primary were divided in many ways, including whether they voted for Trump or Haley. These results don't accurately reveal the differences within the party because this was an open primary. Haley made an appeal for Democrats to crossover and vote for her. I'll look around and see if there is an estimate of how many may have done so.


Here's a bit about how the poll was conducted, this info is found at the bottom of the article: 


Methods: These results are from a survey of 2,126 Republican primary voters as they exited randomly selected voting sites in South Carolina on Feb. 24, 2024. The poll was conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC), The Washington Post and other media organizations. Results will be weighted to match vote tallies by region and to correct for differential participation by subgroup. Totals may not add to 100 percent because of rounding.


- Click here for the article.

Donald Trump’s comfortable victory over Nikki Haley was fueled by strong support from White evangelical Christians and voters without college degrees. Big majorities of primary voters favored deporting most undocumented immigrants and said that Joe Biden’s 2020 election was illegitimate, and both of these groups favored Trump over Haley by an overwhelming margin.


The poll revealed that gender and age were not indicators of . . . 


Trump voters were more likely to:

- not be college educated
- have family incomes below $50,000.
- be very conservative.
- be white evangelical Christians
- focus on immigration and the economy.
- want a president who "fights for people like me."
- favor a national ban on abortion
- deport undocumented aliens
- think that Biden was illegitimately elected
- think Trump could be president even if convicted 
- vote for Trump rather than against Haley
- have previously voted in a Republican Primary