Haley taking part in Fox town hall in South Carolina

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a town hall with Fox News to air Sunday, in which she will discuss voter issues and her campaign strategy in her home state of South Carolina, Fox News announced Thursday.

The town hall in Columbia, S.C., will be presented by Fox News’s John Roberts — the current co-anchor of “America Reports” — and will air at 5 p.m. Sunday on Fox News Channel with a repeat at 10 p.m., the network said in a statement.

Fox has hosted a series of town halls with GOP primary presidential candidates in recent months featuring Haley, former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who suspended his presidential bid following a disappointing showing in last month’s Iowa caucuses.

The network hosted a pair of town halls early last month with Haley and DeSantis focused specifically on women’s issues and Trump is expected to sit with Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham for a taped town hall event that will air next week from Spartanburg, S.C.

The former president sat for a town hall with Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum last month on the same night CNN hosted a Republican primary debate. The audience for Fox nearly doubled CNN’s GOP debate.

Trump also attended a town hall with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity in early December, a night before the fourth Republican primary debate, which he skipped.

Trump and Haley have focused their campaign efforts on the Palmetto State, which will hold its primary on Feb. 24. Haley, who served as the state governor from 2011 to 2017, launched a two-week bus tour across the state last Saturday, and Trump has hosted a series of rallies in the state this month.

According to polling averages maintained by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ, Trump leads Haley by more than 34 points in South Carolina and more than 62 points nationally.

Haley has expressed confidence that voters from South Carolina will support her after her time in office in the state.

A recent poll by CBS News/YouGov, however, found 75 percent of likely GOP voters in South Carolina said it makes no difference that Haley is from their state. About 20 percent said it makes them more likely to vote for her, and 5 percent said it makes them less likely.