South Carolina

Haley Home Free In South Carolina Governor's Race?

Justin Elliott | June 9, 2010, 10:56AM

After weathering two frantic weeks of claims of infidelity, polygraph stunts, and outright racism, South Carolina Republican Nikki Haley won big in the GOP gubernatorial primary Tuesday -- though not quite big enough to avoid a runoff in two weeks with Rep. Gresham Barrett.

Haley got 48.8 percent to Barrett's 21.8 percent; she needed to top 50 percent to avoid a runoff June 22.

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Topics: 2010 Elections, Gresham Barrett, Larry Marchant, Nikki Haley, South Carolina, Will Folks

Nikki Haley

Purported Haley-gate Text: 'Your The One Who Screwed Her'

Justin Elliott | May 26, 2010, 8:11AM

South Carolina blogger and political consultant Will Folks has released a series of what he claims are text messages between himself, an AP reporter, another GOP political operative, and the campaign manager for gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley -- with whom Folks claims he had an inappropriate physical relationship.

The texts, posted on Folks site, FITSNews, are dated about 10 days ago and consist of discussions about various reporters working on a story that involves Haley and Folks, and how to kill the story. In one May 15 text, Haley campaign manager Tim Pearson tells Folks "I'm telling you man, we keep this under wraps and nh is going to win."

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Topics: 2010 Elections, Gresham Barrett, Nikki Haley, Sex, South Carolina, Tim Pearson, Wes Donehue, Will Folks