COLUMBIA — South Carolina Republicans took a victory lap Wednesday celebrating wins that stretched from the White House to the Statehouse.
President-elect Donald Trump won South Carolina by 18 points over Vice President Kamala Harris on his path to a second term, according to unofficial state vote tallies. The Associated Press declared him the 47th president at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday, after Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes put him over the top of the necessary 270 votes in the Electoral College.
“Yesterday, Republicans all across our state added an exclamation point to what we already knew, and that is that South Carolina is Trump country,” state Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick told reporters at GOP state headquarters.
“Up and down the ballot in South Carolina, we aggressively worked not only to defend our incumbents, but also to expand the playing field — to use what we knew would be a wave of support for President Trump to pick up as many other seats at every level as we could all around the state,” he said. “The results speak for themselves.”
Republicans flipped one seat in the state House to maintain their beyond-supermajority advantage — two years after flipping eight seats — with Republican Harriet Holman defeating 20-year incumbent Rep. Joe Jefferson from rural Berkeley County.
The Pineville Democrat was the fourth Black Democrat ousted of the night, losing to Holman, who will be South Carolina’s first Black female Republican legislator.
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