GOP

Matt Moore Won’t Seek Third Term

The chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party says he will not seek a third term at the helm

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party says he will not seek a third term at the helm. Chairman Matt Moore made the announcement on Saturday. Moore’s current term ends with the state GOP convention on May 13, and he said he plans to serve the remainder of his term. He was originally elected in…

GOP Senator Calls for ‘Adult’ Third-Party Presidential Candidate

Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2016 at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., March 3, 2016. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, a longtime vocal critic of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, is calling for voters to rally around a third-party candidate capable of winning the White House. In…

Trump Won SC, Convention Delegates Eye Other Candidates

File COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Billionaire businessman Donald Trump handily won all 50 delegates in South Carolina’s first-in-the-South Republican primary in January but that doesn’t mean he will keep all that support at the party’s national convention. Establishment dissatisfaction with Trump and the possibility he won’t have the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination on a first vote means…