The spike in COVID-19 cases is also impacting how business is conducted at the State House. South Carolina Senate Democrats now plan to hold their annual planning meeting virtually.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– South Carolina was in the National spotlight over the weekend as the 2020 Presidential Democratic Candidates gathered in the State for the Annual SC Democratic Convention. Nearly the full field of candidates running for president were in the Midlands over the weekend. Saturday, hundreds of South Carolina voters packed the Convention Center to hear from the 2020…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–South Carolina Democrats have some big names headlining the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The State Democratic party says four South Carolinians will be featured speakers at the convention. They include, Congressman James Clyburn, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, Former State Lawmakers Bakari Sellers and Current SC Democratic Party Chair Jaime Harrison. Categories: Local News, News, Politics Tags: Democrats,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she’s picked Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to join her on the Democratic ticket as their party’s nominee for vice president. She revealed her choice this evening in a text message to supporters. Kaine is expected to join Clinton at a rally in Florida tomorrow. He’s the former governor of the battleground state of Virginia…
Bernie Sanders did not just win all three states that voted this weekend — Washington, Alaska and Hawaii — he won them by overwhelming, impressive margins. The presidential hopeful won every county in Washington, and some of his biggest victory margins came from the state’s most rural and traditionally conservative areas.
Lansing, Michigan (WOLO) — It’s round two for the GOP and Democratic Presidential hopefuls as they try to gain as many delegates as they can clinch. Campaign trails are crisscrossing throughout the states as voters head to the polls for Super Tuesday part two. Click here to see where the candidates stand. Categories: Politics Tags: Democrats, GOP, Politics, Rochelle Dean,…
Find out how the Democratic presidential candidates plan to make college affordable for students on Good Morning Columbia.
Columbia, S.C (WOLO) — The South Carolina Democratic primary is days away when South Carolina voters will head to the polls to vote for Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Clinton and Sanders are getting ready to battle it out in the Palmetto State, Clinton hoping to maintain momentum coming off a win in Nevada. “It was…
Pictured (L-R) are presidential candidates Sen. Marco Rubio in Manchester, N.H., Feb. 6, 2016, Ohio Gov. John Kasich in Keene, N.H., Jan. 30, 2016 and Sen. Bernie Sanders in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 25, 2016. ABC | AP Photo | Getty Images (ABC News) — Tuesday will be a critical moment on the road to the White House as residents…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The last time lawmakers met in Columbia, Democrats and many Republicans united to bring down the Confederate flag that flew outside the Statehouse for 50 years. The Legislature returns Tuesday, and lawmakers hope that unity continues. But with hundreds of ideas about how to spend hundreds of millions of additional dollars, lawmakers expect partisanship to return….
