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President Donald Trump is a constant presence in Republican primary contests across the nation. South Carolina's June 12 GOP primary in the state's 1st Congressional District is no expectation, with Republicans Katie Arrington and Mark Sanford trading jabs about their support for the president.
Sen. Mark Sanford greets members of the audience as then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign stop Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, at the Charleston Area Convention Center.
We'd go into the litany, but suffice it to say the expansive Lowcountry, S.C. homestead of U.S. congressman Mark Sanford has seen some things. Among them? #Mancampments Sanford's term for the all-male political "brain trusts" convened on the plantation over the years.
Missouri State Rep. Jay Barnes speaks alongside House Speaker Todd Richardson at a press conference where it was announced that a committee has been formed to investigate the indictment of Gov. Eric Greitens on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com Eric Grietens with his family on Tuesday, August 2, 2016, at Eric Greitens watch party at the Doubletree Hotel in Chesterfield, after he was declared the winner in the Republican Governor primaries.
There's something deeply unsettling about living in a country where millions of people froth at the mouth at the idea of giving health care to the tens of millions of Americans who don't have it, or who take pleasure at the thought of privatizing and slashing bedrock social programs like Social Security or Medicare. It might not be so hard to stomach if other Western countries also had a large, vocal chunk of the population that thought like this, but the U.S. is seemingly the only place where right-wing elites can openly share their distaste for the working poor.
The Senate's narrow GOP majority prevailed in a 51-47 vote on Wednesday to begin talks with House lawmakers on reconciling the two bills. The Senate bill narrowly passed in the wee hours Saturday.
The sitting Republican House member lost his primary race to state Rep. Katie Arrington, who campaigned as a Trump ally, after the president made a last-minute endorsement of Arrington. Sanford has been one of the few members to criticize the president, and GOP primary voters punished him for it, handing him his first electoral defeat.
Republicans members of Congress, away from Washington for the Presidents Day week, are getting an earful as constituents have come out in force to voice displeasure for some of the party's policy positions, particularly the plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa held an event on Tuesday in which constituents voiced concerns about losing coverage if the law better known as Obamacare is repealed.
"This is what the resistance looks like," Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan wrote Saturday on Twitter. Energized crowds in New York, South Carolina, and Wisconsin on Saturday morning gave lawmakers a hint of what awaits them in their home districts during the upcoming Congressional recess .
Count us among those who hope President Barack Obama will designate a national monument to Reconstruction in Beaufort County before the end of his term. Reconstruction often gets relatively little attention compared to the Civil War that preceded it and "has long been misunderstood," notable historian Eric Foner has written.
U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford may reconsider his support for Donald Trump if the Republican presidential nominee does not release his tax returns. Sanford, R-S.C., spelled out his case in an op-ed for The New York Times which ran in the paper Sunday.