Winthrop Poll

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for June10, 2025: we look at some action happening this week in the Statehouse; we hear about a new gas-fired energy plant that Duke Energy is proposing in the Upstate; we begin bringing you stories from our Voices Collected series commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting; and more!

Thursday's Winthrop poll shows a state that is so divided, the averages look as if residents are split down the middle.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for April 1, 2025: we’re catching you up on the Republican push to reform and lower taxes in the state; we look at what is on tap this week at the Statehouse; Winthrop Poll director Dr. Scott Huffmon joins us to break down his latest poll findings and get our first look at the 2026 race; and more!

March 12, 2025

If you average out responses to the latest Winthrop poll, South Carolina is mostly evenly split on support for Donald Trump's presidency so far. Partisan divides, though, tell a much more nuanced story.

The former president has a large cushion over former Gov. Nikki Haley heading into the GOP primary. But independents likely to vote on Feb. 24 are 50/50.

October 14, 2023 — A recap of this week's US Supreme Court hearing about South Carolina's redrawn 1st congressional district map that a lower court ruled was racially gerrymandered; the results of the latest Winthrop Poll; and more.

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.

April 25, 2023 — Recent comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on abortion and transgender athletes; more findings from the April 2023 Winthrop University Poll; updates from the 2024 campaign trail; and much more.

Winthrop University's new poll shows a lot of harmony and a lot of party-line differences on the issues of abortion, politics, religion, and the Confederacy in 11 southern states.