By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Early voting numbers for Monday through Wednesday total 280,114. We’ll pretty quickly surpass total early votes for the June primaries, which was 319,367.
The total for early voting in the November 2022 election was 561,563. That was not only the last midterm election, allowing for direct comparisons, but also the first general election following the state’s early voting law.
“It’s not historically a battleground state.” - Gabriel Brey, of North Augusta, on last night’s “pep rally for adults” and the rarity of a presidential visit ahead of a November election.
President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at T. Ed Garrison Arena at Clemson University on Wednesday in Pendleton. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
By Katharine Wilson and Seanna Adcox
President Donald Trump acknowledged polls showing Darline Graham and Annie Andrews in a tight race for U.S. Senate by asking: "Are you sure this is South Carolina?"
A rendering of Westinghouse’s proposed new $1 billion nuclear fuel factory in Lower Richland. (Photo courtesy of Westinghouse)
By Jessica Holdman
Westinghouse Electric Company plans to expand its nuclear fuel campus south of Columbia to make a new type of uranium for power plants. Construction is underway and operations are expected to begin in 2030.
The Columbia headquarters of the South Carolina Research Authority, a state-run technology incubator and investor, pictured on Sept. 8, 2025. (File photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
The federal government is tapping the South Carolina Research Authority, a state-created nonprofit, to help startups develop new technologies and land government contracts.
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