Trump, Haley brawl in North Carolina battleground preview

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Trump was expected to draw a much larger crowd for his rally on Saturday at a coliseum in Greensboro.
59% : Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, was scheduled to campaign in the Raleigh area on Saturday after visiting Charlotte on Friday evening.
59% : Trump is expected to capture the vast share of them, and his campaign has projected he will secure the nomination by March 12 or the week after.
54% : Trump edged President Joe Biden in North Carolina in the 2020 election by 1.3 percentage points - about 75,000 votes - the closest margin in any of the states that he won.
49% : Early polls of a head-to-head matchup show Trump leading Biden in North Carolina.
48% : North Carolina´s primary is part of a Super Tuesday slate of 16 nominating contests that will bring Trump close to clinching the Republican nomination.
47% : While Trump is heavily favored in North Carolina's primary on Tuesday, Haley´s performance should give a sense of his vulnerabilities in the state, particularly among moderate and independent voters, said Thom Little, a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
31% : Voters who come out for Haley in North Carolina will have to decide in November whether to switch to Trump, stay home without voting or cross over to Biden, Little said.
31% : Abortion has emerged as a key issue in North Carolina after the Republican-dominated state legislature last year largely banned the procedure after 12 weeks.
25% : By James OliphantGREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 2 (Reuters) - R epublican frontrunner Donald Trump and his last remaining rival Nikki Haley will collide in North Carolina on Saturday ahead of a contest next week that could carry deep implications for the November general election.

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