
Meg Kinnard
@MegKinnardAP
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Nat'l politics reporter @AP • Proud Tennessean and South Carolinian • @GeorgetownSFS and @UNCHussman alumna • Breast cancer survivor • 2025 @GUPolitics fellow
Joined December 2008
Today @GavinNewsom called on voters to exercise “moral authority” in standing up to Trump/Republicans in next year’s midterms. But his early-voting state foray serves as a strong signal the CA governor is eyeing a 2028 White House bid. My latest from SC:.
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This morning I’m in Florence, where Gov @GavinNewsom kicks off a 2-day swing across South Carolina. Some of the California Democrat’s 8 stops are in this early-voting state’s most conservative corners. Like it or not, campaign 2028 is here.
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RT @MegKinnardAP: NEW: Ex-Lt Gov @AndreBauerSC tells me tonight he's launching his bid to primary Lindsey Graham, whom he says is too libe….
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NEW: Ex-Lt Gov @AndreBauerSC tells me tonight he's launching his bid to primary Lindsey Graham, whom he says is too liberal for SC. “Once every 6 years, he gets conservative,” Bauer said, of Graham. “The rest of the time he votes with the Democrats.”.
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RT @etuckerAP: New: We read hundreds of documents and spoke with cross-section of participants in the Jeffrey Epstein case to try to unders….
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Conspiring with my husband, these amazing students on my @GUPolitics team, from my Spring fellowship at @Georgetown earlier this year, surprised me by flying to South Carolina to spend the weekend with my family and me. Three were unable to be here. One had to work, one lost a
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