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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
It’s even a step further than that. South Carolina actually *did* have voter drop boxes, and the Legislature decided to ban them exclusively for this one election. Some counties had to tape up their existing drop boxes with saran wrap to make sure voters didn’t use them.
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John Whitehouse
4 years
Fox anchor: Let me push back on the idea that voters are suppressed. What about voter dropboxes? Clyburn: South Carolina doesn't have dropboxes. Fox anchor: My understanding is every state had them. Clyburn: We tried, the legislature said no. Fox anchor: I stand corrected.
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Just in: Federal judge halts South Carolina abortion ban
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
NEWS: @RepCunningham tells me he will vote FOR impeachment, concluding after weeks of deliberation that Trump's conduct was "unacceptable." Cunningham, elected last year in a district Trump won handily, was among last remaining Dem holdouts on the vote.
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
Real thing that just happened: 2 middle-aged guys jog past me on Main St in Columbia 1: “I gotta say, I really like Elizabeth Warren.” 2: “Well she’s got a plan for everything!” It felt so much like a scripted campaign ad that I started looking for cameras, but I didn’t see any
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Sen. @marcorubio says staff asked @StateDept for clarification today but were told the agency's been directed not to answer Qs from Congress
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Jamie Lovegrove
6 years
Asked if Trump claiming w/o evidence that FL election is being stolen risks undermining democracy, @LindseyGrahamSC says issue is FL officials. “The problem is not with President Trump’s rhetoric, the problem is with the incompetence and the mischief of Broward County.” #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
New: @ProjectLincoln is out with a TV ad hitting @LindseyGrahamSC for his shift on Trump and comparing him to a parasite. The anti-Trump group says they’ll be spending $1M to air the ad in Columbia, Myrtle Beach and Charleston. #SCSen
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Jamie Lovegrove
6 years
Asked if there's anything Ford can say to change his vote on Kavanaugh, @LindseyGrahamSC says he'll hear her out but... "I'm just being honest: Unless there's something more, no, I'm not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh's life over this." #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
NEWS: @TomSteyer 's deputy SC state director stole @KamalaHarris volunteer data using voter file access he had retained after leaving his previous role as a @scdp staffer. The @DNC caught him and forced him to destroy the massive data export immediately.
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Here’s @RepTomRice ’s statement on voting for impeachment: "I have backed this President through thick and thin for four years. I campaigned for him and voted for him twice. But, this utter failure is inexcusable."
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Jamie Lovegrove
7 years
CHAOS in the Capitol as @SpeakerRyan 's staff kicks several @HispanicCaucus members out of meeting that they asked for with @ICEgov director.
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Jamie Lovegrove
6 years
New: @LindseyGrahamSC declines to confirm "shithole countries" comment but tells me, "My memory hasn't evolved. I know what was said and I know what I said." Calls Oval Office meeting "disappointing" and "a step backward" but determined to continue working on DACA deal. #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
On call w/ SC reporters, @WhipClyburn says George W. Bush told him at the inauguration ceremony that he's "the savior" because they wouldn't be having a transfer of power today if Dems hadn't nominated Biden following his endorsement. #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
Energy had been dropping at the SC Democratic convention as they went through a bunch of lower-tier 2020 candidates. Then this just walked in:
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
As SCOTUS ends term, I asked @WhipClyburn if he hopes Breyer retires. He said no, noting their similar ages. "Who am I to tell somebody to retire?...I feel fine. I'm still able to play 18 holes in the morning, 18 holes in the afternoon and have a little libations for lunch."
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
I’m told by an attendee at @PodSaveAmerica ’s live taping in Charleston tonight that @harrisonjaime got a standing ovation and “the crowd went insane” when he announced his #SCSen exploratory committee and said, “It’s time for Lindsey Graham to come home.”
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Just spoke to one of @RepTomRice 's campaign consultants, who told me the congressman let him know this morning about decision to vote for impeachment. "He truly believes you do the right thing and everything else will work out. He didn't give it 2 seconds of political thought."
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
. @BetoORourke arrives at @UofSC and gets a Gamecock chant going.
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
Just in: @harrisonjaime raised $13.9M in Q2 for his #SCSen campaign against @LindseyGrahamSC , per release. That’s almost double the $7.3M he raised last quarter that broke South Carolina records. Graham has yet to announce his Q2 numbers. #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Asked about @SCGOP ’s vote to censure him, @RepTomRice told the @postandcourier he thinks the party “has forgotten its own creed that says ‘I will cower before no man save my God.’” “It seems to me they are cowering before Donald Trump.”
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
NEWS: Several Upstate GOP leaders and prominent conservative activists are preparing to launch a wide-scale effort this week to meddle in the South Carolina Democratic primary by encouraging Republicans to vote for Bernie Sanders
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
New this morning: @CookPolitical moves #SCSen from Lean Republican to Toss Up. A statewide race in South Carolina is a Toss Up with less than 4 weeks left until Election Day. This is not a drill.
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
Just in: @harrisonjaime raised $10.6M in August alone, per his campaign. That’s more than @LindseyGrahamSC raised for the entire 2nd quarter (which, in any previous election cycle, would have broken South Carolina records). #SCSen
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
NEWS: @JoeCunninghamSC , one of only 2 Democratic congressmen from South Carolina, wades into the presidential primary race for the first time to slam @BernieSanders . "South Carolinians don’t want socialism," he says — and Bernie "will not be the nominee."
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
The person who made the accusation about Graham was Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, not the reporter who reported it
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Graham tells reporters: "Oh, come on. All y'all are all over us 'cause you want the guy to lose. If the shoe were on the other foot you'd be asking questions about widespread fraud, so that's where I'm at with y'all guys."
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Jamie Lovegrove
8 years
This is a real-life conversation between @Lin_Manuel and @chancetherapper .
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
"It actually wasn't a tough vote," said @walter_whetsell , one of @RepTomRice 's strategists, even as he acknowledged it will make reelection difficult in a GOP primary. "Once you determine in your mind the president incited an insurrection, the political arguments don't matter."
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
In Denmark, @BetoORourke (losing his voice again) says he’s trying to get to rural areas like this that “have been overlooked or taken for granted.” “We want to make sure that these communities are among the first we visit” #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
Graham prepares to fight against members of his own party if they disapprove of Trump using emergency powers for wall funding: "To any Republican who denies the president the ability to act as commander-in-chief, you're going to create a real problem within the party." #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
New from Greenville: @LindseyGrahamSC says he's "not very optimistic" about the odds of a border wall funding deal and urges Trump to go it alone, despite reported concerns from @senatemajldr about the use of emergency powers
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
The Mississippi results are going to make South Carolina look like it was a close race
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Rep. Bennie Thompson has officially endorsed Joe Biden for president #commitment2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
6 years
Statement from Captain Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: “Congressman Norman is right – he's no Gabby Giffords.”
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
A man in a Trump 2020 hat starts asking @BetoORourke a question by beginning: “Despite not having any evidence that Trump’s a racist...” The room erupts, mostly in anger, but the guy directly across from him just starts laughing hysterically. #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
7 years
A Fox News panel is currently dinging WaPo for not reaching out to WH ahead of time, apparently unaware that McMaster is quoted in the story
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
In Greenville, @LindseyGrahamSC says he’s “not very optimistic” about the odds of a wall funding deal with Democrats. “It seems to me that (Trump) is going to have to go it alone. But there could be a war within the Republican Party over the wall...” #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
In just the single hour of that #SCSen debate, @harrisonjaime ’s campaign raised $125K, per spokesman.
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
Crowd flowing out the door for @BetoORourke at Benedict College in Columbia. #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
“I was never more proud to call @LindseyGrahamSC my friend than the day he stepped forward to defend Brett Kavanaugh,” @VP says during the “conservative judges” part of his Trump 2020 re-election pitch. #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
Just heard from the @BernieSanders campaign. With 3 hours left until South Carolina polls close, they say their volunteers are currently knocking on doors around the state at a rate of one door *per second.* #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
The 7-year-old girl who Trump spoke to on the phone last night lives in Lexington, SC. And @hannahalani reports that, yes, she does still believe in Santa.
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Msg from @MittRomney to objectors, including 4 SC GOP members: “Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy”
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Today is my last day at the @postandcourier . I am immensely grateful to the colleagues, sources and most importantly readers who made the last 4+ years of hard work so worthwhile. What a fascinating ride.
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
Just in: @SpencerForHouse has won the #HD115 special election over Josh Stokes, 60-39. Democrats have flipped the seat from red to blue for at least the next 3 months. And that margin of victory will be ominous for Republicans hoping to win it back in November. #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
During the Obama administration, @RepTomRice says he would meet with international leaders and they “were more interested in what Lindsey Graham had to say than Barack Obama.” Now the relationship between South Carolina and Washington “has never been stronger.” #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
After a day that was light on foreign policy, @BetoORourke gets pressed about Afghanistan by a local army vet. O’Rourke says he’d bring troops home. “You have the humility of understanding that, as powerful as we are, we cannot determine the internal affairs of other countries.”
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Jamie Lovegrove
6 years
House Republicans do not appear to miss their former colleague Blake Farenthold
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
We’re going to get all the way to the night before Election Day and there will still be more columnists churning out a “maybe Trump will make @NikkiHaley his running mate” take
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
Change from last month: - Biden -9 - Warren +9 - Buttigieg +3 - Harris -1 - Sanders -6 - Booker +1 - O’Rourke +2 - Yang +1 #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
New @postandcourier - @ChangePolls 2020 Democratic primary poll in South Carolina: - @JoeBiden 37% - @ewarren 17% - @PeteButtigieg 11% - @KamalaHarris 9% - @BernieSanders 9% - @CoryBooker 5% - @BetoORourke 4% - @AndrewYang 3% All others at 1% or below.
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Jamie Lovegrove
7 years
1st Texas Republican to come out against Trump exec order is Rep. @HurdOnTheHill , an ex-CIA officer who says it will help terrorists recruit
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Jamie Lovegrove
8 years
Oh my god. Ana Navarro just absolutely blew up at Scottie Nell Hughes like nothing you have ever seen on cable news.
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
South Carolina voter turnout passes half a million. More than Iowa and New Hampshire combined, and not far off from adding Nevada too. #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
This morning in Columbia, @harrisonjaime is waiting in line to vote in-person absentee at the Masonic Lodge downtown. #SCSen
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Bathing in the tears of the haters and losers
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
If you had Tom Rice as the one Republican in the South Carolina delegation to vote in favor of impeaching Trump at the beginning of this week, please tell me the lottery numbers
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
Just talked to Red Shirt Guy — Brandon Counts from Conway. He said he “couldn’t help but laugh” that someone would come to a Dem event and say there’s no evidence Trump’s racist. “He definitely wanted to get a stir out of people. I’m not going to give him the response he wants”
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Jamie Lovegrove
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2 weeks out from #OH11 Dem primary, @ClyburnSC06 sends fundraising email for @ShontelMBrown , whom he endorsed over Bernie-backed @ninaturner . "She will not burn bridges by insulting the President and criticizing other Democrats. She will build bridges and get things done" #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Just in: Don Fowler, the longtime South Carolina Democratic stalwart who chaired the state party when Dick Riley was elected governor in 1978 and the national party when Bill Clinton was reelected president in 1996, has died. He was 85.
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
After explaining why she became a prosecutor — to change criminal justice system from the inside — @KamalaHarris explicitly brings up the “Kamala is a cop” meme. She says it comes from people who are “manipulating” voters by “trying to turn a strength into a weakness.” #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
5 years
There has been no evidence of anything nefarious behind those Democratic gains in states like Florida and California, election officials simply took a while to count every legitimate vote:
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
$13.9M is more than any Senate candidate in South Carolina from either party raised for their entire campaign before this cycle. #SCSen
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
Just in: @harrisonjaime raised $13.9M in Q2 for his #SCSen campaign against @LindseyGrahamSC , per release. That’s almost double the $7.3M he raised last quarter that broke South Carolina records. Graham has yet to announce his Q2 numbers. #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Considering Northwestern: - lost their starting RB to a career-ending medical issue - has a horrific offensive coordinator, who somehow still has a job despite being widely disliked by his own players, let alone fans - still has a 99% grad rate These kids had a hell of a season
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
It has now been about 173 hours since @LindseyGrahamSC said the Trump campaign should produce concrete evidence of systemic voter fraud within 48 hours.
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
I just walked over to Butch Bowers’ law office next to the Statehouse and knocked on the locked door. He came out into the hallway, saw me through the window, turned around and walked back inside.
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
NEWS: Fresh off their 2020 primary success, some South Carolina Democrats are already eyeing the possibility of moving up even earlier in the order for future cycles. Including @WhipClyburn and multiple DNC members...
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Jamie Lovegrove
3 years
Just in: Federal judge blocks South Carolina abortion ban with a preliminary injunction, calling arguments from @AGAlanWilson 's office "nothing short of baffling." "This case does not present a close call."
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
. @PeteButtigieg picks up his first South Carolina endorsements: Anderson Mayor @TerenceVRoberts , Laurens Councilwoman Alicia Sullivan and Chesnee Councilwoman Verhonda Crawford. #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
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@RepCunningham "A lot of people cautioned me and said that this is bad politically," @RepCunningham said of his impeachment votes. "I just responded that that's not the reason that we do this job. If I started going down that road, I would just become exactly what I set out to end." #scpol
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Jamie Lovegrove
4 years
Asked @cthagod and @KamalaHarris for their albums of the decade off the top of their heads. First answers... - Charlamagne: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Harris: Lemonade
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Jamie Lovegrove
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@RepCunningham Cunningham said he found it "highly concerning" that no Republicans are backing impeachment. "We all swore the same oath, and I've got doubts that they're carrying out theirs... But that's not going to deter me from standing up for what I think is right"
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Just in: SC Supreme Court unanimously rules proviso does not prohibit mask mandates on college campuses, contradicting @AGAlanWilson ’s interpretation
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Another @BernieSanders endorser in South Carolina: state Rep. Michael Rivers of Beaufort. That now makes 9 state lawmakers here supporting him, and all 9 of them are black. #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
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At the beginning of @ewarren ’s South Carolina teletownhall, Columbia city councilwoman @TIDEVINE announces she has decided to endorse her. “Elizabeth has a proven track record of fighting for families, and that’s why I’m pleased to be fighting for her.” #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
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New: Another group of South Carolina Democrats endorses @JoeBiden the day before the primary — including @margieBmatthews , whose daughter is @BernieSanders ’ state director. #SC2020
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Jamie Lovegrove
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After Comey hearing, @JoaquinCastrotx says he's on board for investigations into leaks -- but only if that will include the White House.
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Now @HispanicCaucus members and Dem leaders briefing press on what just transpired. @RepLujanGrisham says she's never seen anything like it.
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Jamie Lovegrove
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NEWS: @SCGOP executive committee votes almost unanimously to forgo the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina next year. The move clears the way for Trump to receive all the state's GOP delegates without contest despite challengers emerging:
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Jamie Lovegrove
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Here’s @DaveChappelle making phone calls for @AndrewYang ’s campaign. He waits until halfway through the call to reveal that he’s a world-famous comedian and ends it with, “Wu Tang.” #SC2020
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