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Carolina dreaming: Haley and Scott pin their hopes on state that delivered for Biden
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Transfer over Georgia. South Carolina is poised to turn out to be the following middle of the political universe because the 2024 presidential main elections get underway.
With President Joe Biden selling the state that gained him the 2020 Democratic nomination and South Carolina’s personal former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley saying her marketing campaign for the 2024 Republican nod as hypothesis mounts Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) might quickly do the identical, the state may have outsize significance in the course of the subsequent 12 months.
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South Carolina has all the time been essential to presidential politics because the host of the third nominating contest and the primary within the South. However Coastal Carolina College American research director Drew Kurlowski predicts South Carolina shall be a extra distinguished “tastemaker” as Democrats and Republicans hope the state will “convey one thing totally different” to their primaries.
“With respect to the Democratic Get together, South Carolina voters are rather more reasonable and rather more various than their counterparts in Iowa and New Hampshire,” he informed Washington Examiner. “So far as the Republican Get together, they proceed to position South Carolina close to the highest of their checklist, and South Carolina will proceed to be an essential check for any GOP hopeful.”
As Democrats elevate considerations about Biden’s age, the president this month protected himself from main challenges by efficiently calling on the Democratic Nationwide Committee to alter the presidential calendar. Now, South Carolina and its black-dominated Democratic state get together that awarded Biden together with his first nominating contest win in three campaigns would be the get together’s first, changing Iowa and New Hampshire. DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, himself a South Carolinian, has underscored that the order may be reevaluated after 2024.
However South Carolina can also be essential to Republicans, the state reprising its function because the get together’s third nominating contest. South Carolina has picked the GOP’s standard-bearer over the past couple of a long time, and though the state helped institution candidates, comparable to former President George H.W. Bush, former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS), former President George W. Bush, and the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2008, respectively, it hindered Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) in 2016 in favor of former President Donald Trump.
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However Charles Bierbauer, a former Washington reporter and dean emeritus of the College of South Carolina’s Faculty of Info and Communications, downplayed Haley and Scott’s prospects based mostly solely on their residence state.
“South Carolinians who’ve run for president have run relatively anemic campaigns,” he mentioned. “Lindsey Graham, Mark Sanford, Fritz Hollings. Strom Thurmond did higher. For that matter, so did native South Carolinian Jesse Jackson.”
“However I can think about Nikki Haley or Tim Scott successful a South Carolina Republican main and being ignored throughout the remainder of the nation,” he added. “The Trump core remains to be oriented to white male Christian supremacy.”
Regardless, Haley and Scott look like undeterred. A day after Haley’s first marketing campaign rally, Scott, who himself launched into a pre-bid “listening tour,” was adamant on native radio that multiple South Carolinian can search the presidency.
“I wager there’s room for 3 or 4,” he informed The Morning Reply with Joey Hudson. “Actually, there’s positively room for 2.”
Haley appeals to girls and business-minded Republicans who’ve distanced themselves from MAGA lawmakers, however so does Scott, the one black GOP senator. The pair, who supported Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in 2016 earlier than working with Trump when he was president, additionally share a base and donors. However whereas Haley has each George W. Bush and tea get together credentials, she, too, has sophisticated relationships with Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) and the state legislators.
Tyrone DeLong Sprint, 72, and Lydia Cotton, 60, attended Scott’s listening tour launch, a Charleston County GOP Black Historical past Month dinner, individually however agreed it was too early to take sides.
Sprint did reward Haley for eradicating the Accomplice battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state Capitol after the 2015 Charleston church taking pictures.
“Whenever you take a look at the previous president, I am undecided has he ever stood up or something?” the black enterprise proprietor and entrepreneur mentioned.
Sprint dismissed Trump since he’s dealing with myriad authorized issues, however Cotton, a Latino chief from Puerto Rico, didn’t low cost him, notably if he’s the final Republican left standing.
“I need to hear for now — solely hear,” she mentioned. “I am in search of extra freedom.”
A Quinnipiac College ballot revealed this week discovered Trump leads an unsettled subject with 42% of the Republican main vote to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (FL) 36%, Haley’s 5%, former Vice President Mike Pence’s and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s 4%, in addition to Scott’s 1%.
For Francis Macon College politics professor David White, Haley ought to “by no means” be underestimated, describing Scott as “a pleasant man” however noting that will not be of use “till the mud-slinging begins.”
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“Nobody ever says they’re working for VP, ever, however it will be a pleasant comfort prize for both of them,” he mentioned.
A ride at a historic Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, amusement park turned into a nightmare that left a man paralyzed, a North Carolina couple alleges in a lawsuit.
The couple, identified as Gangia Adhikari and husband Kul Sannyashi, said they visited the Family Kingdom Amusement Park July 23, 2021, and rode the wooden Swamp Fox Roller Coaster.
“While riding the roller coaster as a result of the negligence, carelessness, recklessness, willfulness and wantonness of the Defendants, Plaintiff’s husband suffered an acute injury to his spinal cord which caused quadriplegia,” the lawsuit, filed June 20, alleges.
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Family Kingdom, a seaside amusement park in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The couple alleged the coaster was “extremely dangerous, more so than a typical roller coaster.”
The lawsuit said Family Kingdom Amusement Park “failed to adequately warn customers” of the dangers the roller coaster could present to riders.
The lawsuit also alleged the amusement park failed to take precautions to ensure the ride would not cause serious injuries to its users.
Attorney Morgan Martin told The Sun News Sannyashi is in “horrible condition.”
“The allegation is that he gets on [the roller coaster] fine and then gets off as a quadriplegic,” Martin told the outlet. “It’s such a sad, sad day for that young man, who is just in horrible condition.”
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Sannyashi claimed he had to undergo operations that required expensive medical treatment, hospitalization and intensive care.
A North Carolina man is reportedly paralyzed after riding the popular Swamp Fox roller coaster at Myrtle Beach’s Family Kingdom Amusement Park. (Family Kingdom)
The lawsuit claims he requires 24-hour nursing assistance and suffers from extreme pain, mental anguish and depression due to his permanent injuries.
According to the lawsuit, Adhikari is suing for loss of companionship, fellowship, aid, assistance, company and more.
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Mary Elle Marchant, River Bluff native, crowned as Miss South Carolina Teen 2024 – ABC Columbia
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COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization has crowned Miss River Bluff’s Teen, Mary Elle Marchant, as Miss South Carolina’s Teen 2024.
According to Gavin Smith with the organization, Marchant hails from Lexington, SC, and is an 18-year-old who recently graduated from River Bluff High School.
Performing a musical theatre dance to “I Hope I Get It” from “A Chorus Line to Life,” Marchant was a preliminary winner in the teen evening gown and teen talent award categories.
She received a $12,500 savings bond and will compete for the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen.
The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization also named four additional delegates as runners up in the 2024 Miss South Carolina’s Teen Competition:
First runner up: Miss Daniel Island’s Teen, Tess Ferm
Second runner up: Miss Columbia’s Teen, Le’Daviah Terry
Third runner up: Miss Greer High School’s Teen, Madison Harbin
Fourth runner up: Miss Greater Greer’s Teen, Lilykate Barbare
The Miss South Carolina 2024 competition will continue Saturday evening, beginning at 8 p.m.
Miss South Carolina 2024 will receive a $60,000 scholarship and will compete for the title of Miss America.
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Editorial: Long-awaited reform on how SC picks judges will help, but it doesn’t go far enough
The reform measure the Legislature sent to Gov. Henry McMaster on Wednesday won’t solve the multitudinous problems with the way South Carolina picks judges.
The governor still won’t have anywhere near as much say as the Legislature in selecting the members of the third branch of government.
And lawyer-legislators still will retain inordinate sway over the careers of judges they practice before — creating the appearance if not the reality of preferential treatment.
But the bill — more than a year in the making and far longer than that in the needing — provides a good first step to addressing real and perceived flaws that threaten public confidence in our judicial system. We urge Mr. McMaster to sign it.
For the first time, it allows the governor to appoint some members to the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which decides who legislators can elect or reelect to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the Circuit and Family courts. Governors have never had any say in those elections, and they still won’t participate in the vote, but S.1046 lets the governor appoint four of the 12 commissioners.
House and Senate leaders will still pick the eight other members, and six of them have to be legislators; technically, the bill allows all eight to be legislators, which would ensure legislators’ continued majority on the panel, but if House or Senate leaders choose to interpret it that way, it will be a massive betrayal of the public trust.
Perhaps equally important, legislators will be limited to four consecutive years on the panel, and all but three current members will be expelled from the commission when the law takes effect in a year. Among those leaving will be House Democratic Leader Todd Rutherford, who has made himself the poster child for how lawyer-legislators can manipulate that position to their personal advantage. (Additionally, commissioners have to resign if a relative files to run for a judgeship.)
As long as the Legislature elects judges, the governor should appoint all the members of the screening panel; that’s the only way to create the balance of powers that is foundational to our nation’s system of governance. Barring that, lawyer-legislators should be prohibited from serving on the panel: One chance to influence who becomes a judge — when they vote in the election — is enough; that second opportunity is the root of most of the evil that South Carolina’s prosecutors have been complaining about for more than a year.
It’s worth noting that lawmakers agreed to give the governor some say on the commission at the very same moment they reduced the commission’s power: It still will be able to end the careers and the hopes of judges and would-be judges, but in most cases, it no longer will be able to nominate its favorites from among multiple qualified candidates. Now, instead of nominating a maximum of three candidates for each seat, the so-called cap will be six — which is more than the number of candidates in most contests — so if six candidates are found qualified, all six of them will stand for election.
The other smart reforms are a requirement that screening hearings be livestreamed and a related ban on candidates dropping out before the commission issues its report on their qualifications. Both are designed to stop the panel from pressuring candidates to drop out after screening by suggesting that the public will see unflattering material about them if they don’t.
As Upstate Solicitor Kevin Brackett tells us, “This is helpful, but some of the main structures that ensure legislative dominance are still in place and need to be addressed.” That means getting lawyer-legislators off the screening commission and, ideally, allowing the governor to appoint all 12 members. It’s not too soon to start working on that next round of reforms.
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