Lawmakers celebrate South Carolina win in women’s NCAA championship

[ Lawmakers took to social media to commemorate South Carolina’s victory over Iowa in the NCAA women’s basketball championship game on Sunday. The South Carolina Gamecocks sealed their undefeated season with an 87-75 win over Iowa and basketball sensation Caitlin Clark on Sunday. The women’s championship game had garnered national attention due to South Carolina’s undefeated season and the … Read more

Iowa And South Carolina Punch Their Tickets To The Championship Game

[ A battle for the ages is shaping up on Sunday to decide the NCAA Women’s National Basketball championship. No. 1 seed Iowa, led by all-time NCAA scorer Caitlin Clark, will face undefeated South Carolina, a team hungering for revenge after being dumped last year by the Hawkeyes in the semifinals. The championship game is … Read more

Haley vows to ‘keep fighting’ despite loss in South Carolina 

[ GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the primary race Saturday and “keep fighting” against former President Trump, even after he won in her home state of South Carolina.  Decision Desk HQ, a partner of The Hill, and other news outlets called the Palmetto State for the former president shortly after polls … Read more

Five takeaways from the South Carolina GOP primary

[ CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former President Trump won an emphatic victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday, vanquishing rival Nikki Haley in her home state. The race was called for Trump within moments of polls closing at 7 p.m. EST. With 83 percent of returns in just before 10 p.m., the GOP front-runner’s margin of … Read more

Nancy Mace knocks ‘loser’ Kevin McCarthy over remarks she needs ‘help’

[ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) hit back at former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday after he said she needs help “to straighten out her life” last week, twisting the insult into a fundraising pitch. McCarthy went after Mace on Tuesday in a Capitol Hill visit. The pair have feuded after she was one of … Read more

Trump rails against Senate foreign aid bill, says US should ‘give it to ’em as a loan’ instead

[ Former President Trump railed against a Senate foreign aid bill at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday. “They want to give like almost $100 billion to a few countries, $100 billion,” Trump said at the rally. He continued, “I said, ‘Why do we do this? If you do, you give them, not $100 … Read more

Joe Biden Projected To Easily Win South Carolina Primary; POTUS Lands In L.A. For Campaign Visit – Deadline

[ UPDATE: President Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles this afternoon for a campaign swing. As the results overwhelming came in for the incumbent in the South Carolina Democratic primary this evening, the first stop for Biden out on the West Coast is a campaign meeting in Bel Air, according to a White House pool … Read more

Sununu: ‘Polls, schmolls,’ Nikki Haley is ‘surging’

[ New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) doubled down on his belief Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley can win South Carolina’s primary next month and argued the White House hopeful is “surging.” “Nikki can win South Carolina,” Sununu said Monday in an interview on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “I mean, the fact that she went … Read more

Haley moves on to South Carolina despite GOP pressure to drop out

[ Nikki Haley is facing broadening calls to drop out of the GOP primary even as she publicly signals no intention to do so ahead of South Carolina’s contest next month.  The head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Georgia Republican Party and growing numbers of GOP lawmakers are urging her to drop out, … Read more

Mulvaney: Tim Scott move ‘got my attention’

[ Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) decision to back former President Trump for the GOP nomination over fellow South Carolina politician Nikki Haley got his attention. Mulvaney joined “The Hill on NewsNation” host Blake Burman to discuss “Mick’s Picks,” or the potential candidates that Trump may choose … Read more