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WATCH: Meet the campaign director for George Wallace’s presidential run

Throughout the primary contest, people have compared Donald Trump to former Alabama Governor George Wallace, who ran for president in 1968 as a segregationist
Grace Joyal

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Throughout the primary contest, people have compared Donald Trump to former Alabama Governor George Wallace, who ran for president in 1968 as a segregationist. Wallace’s executive director for his campaign has called Columbia home for decades. Tom Turnipseed, 79, is a former state senator, ran for governor in South Carolina and along with his wife, is…
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Sen. Warren Calls Donald Trump a “Loser”

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(ABC News) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump referred to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “the Indian” at a news conference on Monday just hours after she unleashed a Twitter tirade against him. “Who is that, the Indian? You mean the Indian?” Trump asked, referring to Warren, who has said she has Native American ancestry. Warren’s contention became a point…
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Sanders Would Ask Obama to Withdraw SCOTUS Nomination if Elected President

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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, March 15, 2016. Ricardo Arduengo/AP Photo (ABC News) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said if elected president in November he would ask President Obama to withdraw his Supreme Court justice nomination of JudgeMerrick Garland. “I think I’m 100 percent prepared to support Judge Garland….
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VIDEO: Sanford Picked for Cuba Delegation

U.S. Representative Mark Sanford (R-SC 1st District) will be among a handful of republicans traveling to Cuba with President Barack Obama.
ABC Columbia Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — U.S. Representative Mark Sanford (R-SC 1st District) will be among a handful of republicans traveling to Cuba with President Barack Obama. The former South Carolina governor has worked in the past to lift the travel ban between the U.S. and Cuba. The majority of those on the trip will be democrats. The delegation leaves on Sunday…
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Endorses Donald Trump

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(ABC News) — Just a day after his state rendered its judgment in the Republican primary — handing over all of its 99 GOP delegates to Donald Trump — Florida Gov. Rick Scott urged his fellow Republicans to “coalesce” behind the New York businessman. Scott, 63, called on Republicans to “come together” in a Facebook post today. “With his victories…
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Republican Leaders Respond to Open Seat on the Supreme Court

Kimberlei Davis

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Several leaders in the Republican party has released statements after President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the United States Supreme Court. Congressman Joe Wilson issued the following statement after President Obama announced his nominee for the Supreme Court: “I support the Senate majority standing firm to have the next President to…
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Merrick Garland: What to Know About Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee

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Charles Dharapak/AP Photo (ABC News) — President Barack Obama has nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Garland, a judicial moderate, currently serves as chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The announcement comes about a month after Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death put the Supreme Court’s ideological balance up for grabs, and Garland’s nomination is certain to…

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Sanders Says He’s Doing Something ‘Radical’ in Politics: ‘Telling the Truth’

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(ABC News) — After Bernie Sanders was projected to lose the first three of the five Mini Super Tuesday states to Hillary Clinton, he turned the focus to his own campaign in an hour-long speech to supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, tonight, saying his campaign has “defied all expectations.” “We started this campaign at 3 percent in the national polls,” Sanders…