Republican presidential candidates

Ten Republican candidates for president have filed to be on South Carolina's Feb. 24 primary ballot.

Former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, became the fifth Republican presidential candidate to file for South Carolina's Feb. 24 GOP primary.

Sen. Tim Scott on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, filed his candidacy paperwork to run for South Carolina's Republican presidential primary on Feb. 24, 2024.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is now the second-place choice among the state's GOP voters, according to the latest Winthrop Poll. Haley still trails party frontrunner Donald Trump, who remains the favored candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

September 30, 2023 — Recap and analysis of the second Republican presidential debate, including a breakdown of exchanges between the Palmetto State's homegrown hopefuls, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.

Seven Republican presidential candidates took turns criticizing President Joe Biden's policies and former President Donald Trump's absence at the second GOP presidential debate in California.

South Carolina natives Nikki Haley and Tim Scott had the early-voting state to themselves Aug. 28 as each court voters for the GOP presidential nomination.

Eight Republican presidential hopefuls sparred in the first GOP debate over foreign policy, the former president and abortion restrictions after the S.C. Supreme Court upheld South Carolina's six-week ban.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is criticizing former President Donald Trump for being too friendly to China during his time in office while also warning that weak support for Ukraine would "only encourage" China to invade Taiwan. Haley said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday that Trump was "almost singularly focused" on the U.S.-China trade relationship but ultimately did "too little about the rest of the Chinese threat." Specifically, Haley noted that Trump failed to rally U.S. allies "against the Chinese threat" and that he had congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is rolling out endorsements from 15 South Carolina lawmakers. The list was shared first on Thursday with The Associated Press ahead of DeSantis' town hall in North Augusta. The endorsements come from 11 state House members and four state senators.