South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond convened the 2024 Electoral ... the president of the U.S. Senate, who will preside over the vote-counting in Congress of her Republican opponent ...

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He left the Senate in March 1861, just after Texas seceded. He traveled to South Carolina where southern ... over the radical candidate James Henry Hammond. The divisive campaign led to Wigfall ...

South Carolina is a Republican stronghold. The Palmetto State has voted Republican in 13 of the last 14 presidential elections. The sole exception came in 1976, when the state supported Jimmy Carter.