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@SCETV
’s Emmy nominated This Week in South Carolina | Host of
@SCLedepod
| Maryland raised South Carolinian | Covering
#SC2024
gjackson
@scetv
.org
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@JoeBiden
’s South Carolina launch party is getting underway here in Columbia with some music from a choir of gospel singers from local AME churches.
#SC2020
Senate approves amendment by voice vote to include that if a woman becomes pregnant by rape or incest that the local sheriff must be alerted before she can have an abortion.
"Let’s put this whole issue on the ballot. But we won't do that because y'all are scared to do that. The same thing that happened in Kansas would happen here, resoundingly. Y'all think you know better than your own constituents," Sen.
@SennSandy
R-Charleston
The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously granted a temporary injunction today against the state's recently implemented six-week abortion ban while the law is litigated. The restrictive law went into effect on June 27, days after the Dobbs decision.
"You better damn well back it up with evidence,"
@RepNancyMace
says to those who are suggesting antifa was involved in storming the U.S. Capitol.
My full interview with her on This Week in South Carolina this Friday at 7:30 p.m. on
@SCETV
.
@Bakari_Sellers
“Tomorrow night we will make history... And mama, I know you're out there somewhere so I apologize for this one, but tomorrow night I’m going to be so damn proud when I'm able to send Lindsey Graham's ass home!”
“I knew he was doing less and less and now we know why—he’s saving it for his legal fees,” Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on former President Donald Trump’s lack of campaigning while she rallies a full house at USC Aiken this afternoon. Spartanburg this evening.
Nikki Haley holds her final South Carolina campaign rally at Patriots Point in Mt. Pleasant the evening before the South Carolina Republican presidential primary.
Rev. Kenneth Hodges gives Beto O’Rourke a tour of Tabernacle Baptist Church’s grounds in Beaufort, including the bust and grave of Robert Smalls. O’Rourke is now participating in a round table discussion with citizens of the Gullah Geechee Nation.
#SC2020
S.C. Senate medical marijuana debate continues.
Sen. Billy Garrett: Do we want to write laws that are completely contrary to federal law?
Sen. Tom Davis: Well we did it last year with the fetal heartbeat bill.
(S. 150 does not contradict federal stance on medical marijuana)
1200 folks turned out in Exeter, New Hampshire, tonight for
@nikkihaley
and Judge Judy. The energetic rally for Haley came on the heels of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropping out of the race just hours before.
"My editors and I struggled to turn Robinson’s vast archive of extremism into a single, manageable story. I had placed all of his worst comments into a Google doc. It was 37 pages and over 9,200 words long
Wow: South Carolina detected community spread of
#COVID19
in Kershaw County by testing a patient when they did not meet CDC testing criteria at the time.
Kershaw County now has 18 cases of
#COVID19
- 4 new cases today. TY, Dr. Holmstrom, for sharing your perspective - it needs to be heard. We would all do well to heed your advice. Links to DHEC PR &
@drtullie
Holmstrom’s FB post:
When talking about gender and sex ed Nikki Haley says schools “don't get to parent—that’s our job. We got one job and it's to get it right for our kids. We're not going to give that up to any old bureaucrats or any federal program that thinks that they know better than we do.”
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley takes the stage before hundreds here in Richmond, one of two stops in the Super Tuesday state (commonwealth) of Virginia she’s making today.
The Trump campaign has denied
@SCETV
&
@SCPublicRadio
credentials for the Feb. 14 rally in North Charleston for reasons unknown. Unless this changes, we will not be able to provide any coverage to our national networks or the citizens of the state.
Sen. Katrina Shealy, the day after her primary runoff loss, holds up the JFK Profile in Courage Award she & the Sister Senators earned for blocking a near total abortion ban.
“This is what a Senate seat costs & I’m proud of it. So somebody better do the job because I’m leaving.”
“‘If they nominate Nikki Haley, we’re in trouble,’ said a senior Democratic strategist close with the Biden campaign who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal thinking.”
"The fact is I don’t want anyone in this room making life and death decisions for me, my daughter, my granddaughter and for that fact anyone,"
@KatrinaShealy
R-Lexington. "I care about the children who are forced into adulthood that was made up by a legislature full of men."
.
@KamalaHarris
is set to give the keynote at the Charleston NAACP Freedom Fund Gala this evening. Additionally, Harris’ campaign says that over the next couple months it will double its organizing staff and open offices in Florence and Orangeburg.
#SC2020
@shanemassey
"It says that we do not have to suffer an unreasonable invasion of privacy and if what's going on in my vagina is not an unreasonable invasion of privacy for this legislature to get involved in I don’t know what is!" Sen.
@SennSandy
to Senate Majority Leader
@shanemassey
Candidates for Ryan Binkley and Ron DeSantis read from scripts,
@SenTomDavisSC
spoke about from memory about his experience and 20 years with Haley. He also mentioned his 818-mile to be here for this caucus.
A woman in South Carolina who had her last menstrual period on July 26 would be ~4 weeks pregnant today, for example. The earliest appointment at the Columbia Planned Parenthood to receive the abortion pill is Sept. 12 or about 3 weeks from now.
S.C. Rep. Terry Alexander, a Sen. Bernie Sanders backer, gives the opening prayer before the start of Sanders’ rally in North Charleston. More than 1000 have gathered to hear the Democratic presidential candidate during his first visit to South Carolina since declaring.
#SC2020
“So I am so proud to be here tonight. Not only do I have the incredible honor of introducing a good friend but former Republican governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley. We’re really excited to help launch the first in the nation caucus here in Iowa,” Gov. Kim Reynolds.
.
@JoeBiden
tells Monique Flowers’ mother (who is on video) to get better after her knee replacement surgery. The entire Flowers family is for Biden and one of Flowers’ friends who was undecided is now all in on Biden. “He lit a fire here tonight,” Flowers said.
#SC2020
“In South Carolina, which has some of the highest rates of transmission in the country, if you're vaccinated, your risk of getting COVID are equivalent to somebody who is not vaccinated here in New York state. That is simply because there is so much more virus circulating in SC”
"Americans had this false sense of security, this feeling of mission accomplished back in late May and June that was simply not realistic. These kinds of respiratory viruses come in waves. We were in a lull between waves at that time,"
@celinegounder
says.
Biden in closing, “Presidents just can’t fight. They have to heal. It’s not enough just to fight. We got to heal and our country so desperately needs it. I know this is going to be the fight of my life.”
Just got back from six days in Houston visiting my badass friend and colleague
@MegKinnardAP
! Catch up with the latest on her fight against breast cancer and more in Tuesday's
@SCledepod
episode!
Nikki Haley did not make it this far to drop out within days of the South Carolina primary.
If I'm wrong then run me over with the Beast of the Southeast bus 🚬
.
@KamalaHarris
met w/ clients and stylists at a hair salon in Orangeburg, South Carolina this evening. She fielded several questions about HBCUs ahead of SCSU’s homecoming tomorrow and just wrapped up remarks at Betty Henderson’s Elected Officials & Candidates Cook-Off
#SC2020
TONIGHT on TWISC
"I don't think the General Assembly has a clue how the majority of people in the state
really feel on abortion," former South Carolina Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn tells me about her career, the six-week abortion law ruling + more.
Airs at 7:30p on
@SCETV
"I can't go along with any man that belittles our military," Doug Busbee said about former President Donald Trump.
On This Week in SC, I sit down with Nikki Haley and take you to Haley & Trump events during the final days of the
#SC2024
campaign trail.
Friday 7:30p on
@SCETV
I’m not gonna tell anyone how to parent, but the water is deep and with live power lines overhead—let’s just say I wasn’t crazy standing in water even with rubber waders on.
#Ian
SLED shutting down House Freedom Caucus claims: After SLED’s initial review, the allegation that state agencies were attempting to “illegally register non-citizens to vote” is unfounded.
"By delivering polar opposite abortion decisions seven months apart, the state Supreme Court revealed its fear of the SC General Assembly. Any branch of government that fears a co-equal branch is not co-equal," "Sister Senators" Shealy, Bright Matthews, McLeod, Senn & Gustafson.
“It’s a great day in South Carolina,” former Gov. Nikki Haley says to hundreds of supporters in Myrtle Beach during her first rally in the state since her formal announcement in Charleston last month.
.
@USUN
Ambassador
@nikkihaley
applauds
@jslovegrove
for traveling to the New York press briefing on the United States' September UN Security Council presidency. Lovegrove gets the last question and asks about her time as ambassador and Clemson football.
.
@LindseyGrahamSC
"President Biden is the president of the United States and to the extent I can help him to push back Putin and bring stability to the world I will gladly do so. I will not be part of an appeasement movement that will lead to further conflict."
“Stop giving money to countries that hate America!” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says when recounting her time as ambassador to the United Nations. Some of the hundreds of supporters here at Horry Georgetown Tech in Myrtle Beach start a USA chant.
Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickenmann
@colamayor
in the house here at Doc’s BBQ in Columbia for Nikki Haley’s campaign event 👀
Also some long-time Haley supporters
@BryanStirling
@NathanBallentin
+ others packed in here for her first of two events today.
South Carolina ETV and South Carolina Public Radio are statewide networks that reach nearly every resident. This is the first time we've ever been denied an in-state rally media credential.
Pizza & Politics at Franklin Pierce University in snowy Rindge, New Hampshire. Standing-room only crowd here waiting for
@NikkiHaley
. This will be her third event today and then will wrap up with a rally in Nashua.
#FITN
Hundreds welcome former Vice President
@JoeBiden
this evening at Lander University in Greenwood, S.C. While he enjoys strong support in South Carolina, Biden isn’t taking it for granted saying, “I’m here to earn your support.”
#SC2020
Long lines at the West Ashley High School polling location, which is home to six precincts today. Several precincts were consolidated into this location, which has five machines.
.
@KamalaHarris
meets with supporters at the Charleston Blue Jamboree in North Charleston, S.C. today. She’s one of several Democratic presidential candidates speaking at the event. “This ain’t me, this is us,” Harris tells the crowd.
#SC2020
*some personal news*
SEVEN YEARS at
@SCETV
! With this team we've created + grown the award winning
@SCledepod
, I took over
@ThisWeekinSC
and led us to two Southeast Emmy noms, live-anchored multiple major statewide news events + debates and covered the top stories across S.C.
S.C. Senate voted first not to table Sen. Senn's amendment on rape/incest/fetal anomaly exceptions to S. 1. It then voted to carry over the amendment.
Here are the votes. Some votes were changed at the last minute.
Hot take: Haley is staying in until the math doesn’t add up, cash and/or delegates. If people think she’s going to end things within sight of South Carolina, where naysayers counted her out from the start, then there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of her/entire political career
Nikki Haley’s Comet
On the Lede, we catch you up on the big, newsy weekend on the trail in New Hampshire heading into the First in the Nation Primary today.
“I don't think the General Assembly has a clue how the majority of people in the state really feel on abortion and I hope they'll figure it out,” from my sit down with former South Carolina Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn
Witnessing the feeding operation at Blaney Elementary School is something to see. Then you realize cafeteria workers and bus drivers are organizing basically mini Berlin airlifts every day across this state. Incredible.
Joe Biden greeted by hundreds here in Columbia, “You have no idea how good it is to be back in South Carolina!”
@JoeBiden
“When I die I want to be reborn in Charleston!”
#SC2020
Today South Carolina marked a grave new high with 24 deaths recorded in a single day. Also, a record 1,160 South Carolinians are hospitalized with COVID-19.
Dispatch: First full day in a real southern town. Wow! Ordered a red eye at the local Starbucks—couldn’t find a coffee shop near my hotel that understood me! It’s so quaint here—there’s a railroad that comes through the town! Trains! Found a Waffle House. I’m told it’s local!
“Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut”
About 500 folks are here in Greer to see Republican presidential candidate
@NikkiHaley
this evening. More chairs are being setup to accommodate the crowd.
Rep.
@leonstav
ahead of abortion bill vote, "This is not our bill. We didn't pass this bill out of committee. We're not the ones trying to strip the rights, and freedoms and equality and health care choices away from the women of South Carolina. It's not us. Don't blame us."
S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is heading to the Live Free or Die state to support former President Donald Trump. They’re part of a group of top S.C. politicians supporting him. McMaster was the first statewide elected official, nationwide, to do so in 2016.
.
@PamelaEvette
and I are on our way to Manchester, New Hampshire to join
@realDonaldTrump
for tonight's rally and help put him back in the White House!
"If it costs me my job it was the right vote,"
@RepTomRice
on This Week in S.C. Rice voted to impeach President Trump after rewatching the disturbing images of the Jan. 6 siege and witnessing Trump's "abdication of leadership."
Full interview on TWISC Friday at 7:30p on
@SCETV
.
It hasn't been easy getting to Iowa these past few days due to severe winter weather. But
@SenTomDavisSC
wasn't going to miss supporting his friend, Nikki Haley during the final days of the Iowa campaign. I sat down with Davis Sunday evening before Haley's event in Adel.
Republican presidential candidate
@NikkiHaley
is officially on the S.C.
#FITS
presidential primary ballot. The former governor signed the paperwork in the Statehouse lobby this morning with supporters and several of her ride-or-dies who have been with her from the start
#SC2024
"My clothes aren’t here, but I’m here!” Rep.
@NathanBallentin
(R-Chapin) said this evening. “You’re going to see this outfit often!” Ballentine recounts his travel story and tells us why he wasn't going to miss being in Iowa for his long-time friend
@NikkiHaley
.
138 COVID deaths reported in one day in South Carolina. That’s almost equal to the entire 2019-2020 flu season (140) and surpasses the five season average of 135.
Today, DHEC announced 3251 new cases of COVID-19 (2409 confirmed, 842 probable), 138 new deaths (110 confirmed, 28 probable), and a percent positive of 12.6%. See today's updated COVID-19 and vaccine data at .
Office of
@VP
confirms VP Kamala Harris heading to Columbia, South Carolina, this morning to file for the First in the Nation
#SC2024
Democratic Presidential Primary. She’ll give remarks with
@RepJamesClyburn
around 10a and return to Washington an hour later.
"Do we women have no autonomy over our own bodies? Are we simply baby machines? The circumstances by which the female is pregnant--is that completely irrelevant?" Sen.
@PenrySC
R-Camden.
Just realized it's my nine-year anniversary of moving from Baton Rouge to Florence, South Carolina to work for The Morning News. I love calling the Palmetto State home!