COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The runoff election for the Republican GOP nomination to replace Mick Mulvaney in South Carolina’s 5th District was too close to call Tuesday night, with the slightest or margins separating the contenders. The difference in votes between former lawmaker Ralph Norman and state legislator Tommy Pope was less than 1 percent, meaning a recount is automatic….
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Here is a list of winners of races in South Carolina. State House – District 70 Wendy Brawley, Democrat 70 % Heath Hill, Democrat 30 % Categories: Local News, Politics, State Tags: SC State House
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Former House Majority Leader Rick Quinn says he’s done nothing wrong and will fight the misconduct charges against him. Quinn becomes the third South Carolina legislator since December suspended from office amid corruption allegations. House Speaker Jay Lucas suspended Quinn on Tuesday, as required by state law, following his indictment on two counts of misconduct in…
CAMDEN, S.C. (WOLO)- According to the South Carolina Election Commission, Congressional District 5 covers 11 Midlands counties: Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Newberry, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union and York. Both Republican candidates in Tuesday’s runoff, Tommy Pope and Ralph Norman, hail from York County but voters from Kershaw County told ABC Columbia their votes matter and the candidates are still…
Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said today the president did not know where the information he shared with Russian officials originated and described the conversation as “wholly appropriate.”
COLUMBIA, S.C (WOLO/AP) – Solicitor David Pascoe announced Tuesday that longtime Republican lawmaker Rick Quinn was indicted Tuesday on two counts of misconduct. The two indictments are for one count of common law misconduct in office and one count of statutory misconduct in office. If convicted Quinn could face up to ten years in prison on the first offense and…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina’s attorney general agrees the state Supreme Court can resolve questions over whether Gov. Henry McMaster should temporarily fill the seats of suspended legislators. Attorney General Alan Wilson says it’s “in the public interest” for the state’s highest court to directly take up the issue. But Wilson said in court documents filed Friday a lawsuit…
Hillary Clinton announced today via Twitter the launch of her new political action group, Onward Together, which will “encourage people to get involved, organize, and even run for office.”
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina’s voter identification law, which a lower court said targeted African-Americans “with almost surgical precision.”
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley defended President Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey, saying that he can “fire anyone he wants.”
