Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they’re calling the “New Battlefield Project,” intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up.
House lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday with a short to-do list after five weeks back in their home districts.
“It’s as different as daylight and darkness. Liberalism or illiberalism. Rights being regressed or a world that can be transformed. Fighting for the future or putting America in reverse,” says California Governor Gavin Newsom.
The governor’s speech was followed up Wednesday night by the Democratic response.
Representatives Todd Rutherford, Deon Tedder, and Roger Kirby announced they have filed paperwork to create a new caucus named the “Freedom Caucus of South Carolina.”
Washington, D.C. (AP)–President Joe Biden on Monday announced the appointment of former Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin as a top adviser, filling a key White House role from a state that has become crucial to the Democratic Party ahead of the 2024 election cycle. Benjamin will become director of the White House Office of Engagement. He takes over from another former…
South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick spoke at the Republican Party’s office on Marion Street this morning about yesterday’s wins for the Republican Party. Democratic winner of House District 75, Heather Bauer, was able to break through the Republican Party’s stronghold on the state.
The former Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Donald Fowler, passed away Tuesday. Fowler died from his battle with leukemia at 85 years old.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Hundreds visited the State House to pay their respects to Senator Fritz Hollings as his body lay in repose Monday. Several people from all walks of life said they fondly look back at Hollings’s legacy, including Bishop Fred James, a longtime leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. “For fifty-five years, it was my privilege and…
A Democrat who is thinking of challenging Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in next year’s Senate election says Vice President Mike Pence’s upcoming visit to South Carolina does no favors for South Carolinians.
