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Pressley Stutts, who served as an executive committee member of the Greenville County Republican Party and the leader of the Greenville Tea Party, died in South Carolina after a battle with Covid-19.
Stutts had pushed back against vaccination efforts in his state and regularly shared Covid-19 conspiracy theories.
Lindsey Graham has rarely shown any kind of backbone since Donald Trump took over the Republican party. He was fiercely opposed to Trump during the 2016 primary but is now one of his biggest enablers.
And the former president is still obsessed with the claim that he was cheated out of the 2020 election. And his message certainly resonates with those who support the GOP. According to a recent poll, 67% of Republican voters don’t believe that Biden was the winner of the most recent election.
In many schools, children recite the Pledge of Allegiance. They know the words, of course. They recite the pledge each and every day.
Michael Flynn, prior to joining Donald Trump’s administration, spent his entire adult life in the military. But during an event last night in South Carolina on Saturday night, the long-time military man seemed to forget the words to the pledge.
Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid is not going well. With less than two weeks to go, he is trailing Joe Biden by nearly 10 percentage points. And rather than trying to reach voters closer to the political middle, he has begun to lash out as people within his own party.
There are a lot of things going wrong for Lindsey Graham right now. The South Carolina senator has been getting crushed fundraising wise and has taken to regularly begging for donations on Fox News.
Graham is also up against a really tough challenger in Jaime Harrison. And Harrison has been getting under the senator’s skin in the worst way. The democratic challenger when viral during their first debate when he brought his own plexiglass divider.
Lindsey Graham has typically had an easy road to reelection since joining the United States senate in 2002. But his toadyism towards Donald Trump has made him one of the most unpopular lawmakers in America.
Jaime Harrison has repeated his blockbuster fundraising success from Thursday by raising the same amount over the past 24 hours. He’s currently tied with Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina Senate race.
Jaime Harrison has raised more than $1 million over the past 24 hours in his bid to unseat Lindsey Graham. The Democrat’s fundraising will add to fears that Graham can be defeated.
Harrison announced the number on Twitter on Thursday. He was once seen as a long-shot to beat the Republican senator but his fundraising and poll numbers show he’s competitive.
Two petitions are calling for a memorial to Chadwick Boseman to replace a Confederate statue in the late actor’s hometown. The effort has garnered thousands of signatures.
One petition calls for a Confederate statue in Anderson, South Carolina to be replaced with a memorial to the Black Panther star and has garnered more than 6,000 signatures.
Former Vice President Joe Biden blew out Bernie Sanders in South Carolina and his win provided some insight into where the primary could be going.
Former President Obama has asked South Carolina TV stations to stop running anti-Biden ads from a pro-Trump super PAC that use his voice.
Trump had another one of his "moments," when announced that the flood water in North Carolina will be moving to South Carolina.
A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton has a chance to turn deep red South Carolina blue in November, and in the process turn the presidential election into a blowout.
Bernie Sanders congratulated Hillary Clinton, thanked his supporters, and vowed to fight on after losing the South Carolina Democratic primary.
Iowa radio host Steve Deace has decided on a manly solution to Cruz's unmanly campaign performance by threatening to castrate himself
Bernie Sanders not only upstaged Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, but Republican ideologies that would deny high office to non-Christians
A Muslim woman stood up in silent protest of Trump's attacks on Syrian refugees, and found herself escorted out to boos and catcalls
The Republican Party has taken America for a nightmare ride, but this did not just happen overnight. We - Americans - let it happen
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has become a convert, who now believes in federal aid for natural disaster victims.
South Carolina isn't feeling the Bern. Instead, the state appears poised to serve as a firewall for Hillary Clinton.