By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
I need to correct an error in yesterday’s newsletter: Only 25% of registered voters participated in either party’s primary last month. (I’ve been writing about “next” month’s primary so much, my fingers got ahead of my brain. Hopefully, you read right past that. Oops. Of course, I noticed it right after I clicked to send.) The point is: The majority of registered voters didn’t exercise their right to vote during the regular primaries. Special elections are notoriously low-turnout events. Let’s break records next month!
“The Election Commission removed any doubt about that.” - State GOP Chairman Drew McKissick on questions about who can run next month.
Flags fly at half-staff Thursday atop the South Carolina Statehouse dome in honor the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
Days before filing begins for the special GOP primary, the state Election Commission made clear that South Carolina candidates can run for multiple offices simultaneously. The first open U.S. Senate contest in South Carolina in 22 years is expected to be crowded. Speculation over who will or won’t run will soon be settled. The one-week filing period begins Tuesday.
Jarvis McKenzie and his attorney, Tyler Bailey, speak to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Columbia on Thursday. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)
By Skylar Laird
A white Columbia man will spend nine years in prison for shooting a gun in the air to frighten a Black man solely because of his race, a judge decided yesterday. She also recommended mental health and substance abuse treatment while he’s in prison.
Lindsey Graham, then Senate budget chairman, speaks to reporters during a press conference inside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
COMMENTARY
By Gibbs Knotts and Christopher A. Cooper
Today’s commentary is co-authored by Coastal Carolina's provost and a Western Carolina political science professor. (Knotts previously taught political science at the College of Charleston.) They write how U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's instinctive political skills defined his career. This piece is republished from The Conversation.
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