THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - State RINOs Derail Trump-Backed Electoral Map.
South Carolina's state senate failed to pass a redistricting proposal supported by President Donald J. Trump, after five Republicans joined with the Democrats to block it—including state Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey.
South Carolina’s state senate failed to pass a redistricting proposal supported by President Donald J. Trump , after five Republicans joined with the Democrats to block it—including state Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Republican state senators Sean Bennett, Chip Campsen, Tom David, and Greg Hembree, and Shane Massey—the Majority Leader—joined with the Democrats in South Carolina to block a redistricting proposal aimed at redrawing the state’s congressional map to favor the GOP, following a Supreme Court ruling against Democrat-leaning, racially gerrymandered black-majority districts. President Donald J. Trump had publicly backed the new map, but despite a GOP supermajority in the state…Open