COLUMBIA -- Cracks in Republican support for GOP gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley surfaced for the first time Thursday.
What Haley does in the next month to respond is critically important.
Socially conservative Republican leader Cyndi Mosteller of Charleston and GOP strategist and Clemson University professor Dave Woodard came forth publicly to demand answers from Haley.
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Specifically, they said they want her to speak up about allegations that she was unfaithful to her husband, along with addressing ethical questions about her job at the Lexington Medical Center Foundation and her late payment of income taxes.
They said Haley has dodged the issues too long and that it could come back to hurt the party.
"Truth is always good politics," Woodard said. "Nikki wants votes. We want answers."
Their comments have done something to push back against Haley's campaign that Democrats haven't been able to do: bring the extramarital allegations and Haley's dirty laundry to the forefront again. She faces Democrat Vincent Sheheen on Nov. 2. Sheheen's campaign did not immediately react.
But state Republican Party Chairwoman Karen Floyd and former state party Chairman Katon Dawson said the issues have been put to rest by Haley.
"The status quo is scared and it's simply lashing back," Floyd said. She took the microphone after Mosteller and Woodard's news conference in the Statehouse lobby, flanked by Republican representatives from the tri-county area, among others conservatives.
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