Donovan Slack

USA TODAY

A new South Carolina poll released Tuesday offers little news on the horse race – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton still maintain large leads heading into the Palmetto State primaries. (He is up by a 17-point margin, while she is up by 21 percentage points.)

But the survey by Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning polling firm, provides a provocative glimpse of Trump support in the state, which, PPP asserts, shows it is “built on a base of voters among whom religious and racial intolerance pervades.”

Here’s what PPP found among likely Republican primary voters who support Trump in South Carolina:

Should the Confederate flag should still be flying over the South Carolina State House?

Yes – 70%

No - 20%

Do you wish the South had won the Civil War?

Yes – 38%

No – 24%

Not sure – 38%

Do you support Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims?

Yes – 80%

No-9%

(The poll also found 31% of Trump fans would support banning gays from entering the United States, something no more than 17% of other candidates’ supporters think is a good idea.)

Do you support creating a national database of Muslims?

Yes-62%

No-23%

Do you support shutting down all mosques in the United States?

Yes-40%

No-36%

Should the practice of Islam be illegal in the U.S.?

Yes-33%

No-44%

PPP surveyed 897 likely Republican voters Feb. 14 and 15. Of those, 35% said they supported Trump.

South Carolina Republicans are scheduled to hold their primary on Saturday. Democrats will hold theirs a week later, on Feb. 27.

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