Former President Joe Biden was stumbling long before he took office. He fell behind in the first three Democratic primary elections of 2020, placing fourth, fifth, and second, respectively.
James Clyburn, South Carolina’s lone Democratic congressman, is credited with turning things around for the campaign and propping Biden up by delivering him a timely endorsement and South Carolina’s delegates.
Now, Biden’s political crutch is poised to lose his own footing.
‘This fight is a straightforward, fair election versus Democrat manipulation.’
During a heated meeting on Tuesday, lawmakers on the South Carolina House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee discussed legislation that, if successfully passed by both chambers of the legislature and ratified by the governor, would ultimately redraw the Palmetto State’s congressional maps and eliminate Clyburn’s district.
During the public testimony portion of the meeting, wild-eyed opponents accused Republican lawmakers of engaging in “fascism,” killing democracy in the state, disenfranchising black voters, and diluting liberal voting power.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, among those who alternatively spoke in support of the legislation at the meeting, stated, “We have both the duty and the opportunity to maximize our conservative stronghold and ensure our people receive the representation they deserve, grounded in faith, freedom, family values, safe communities, and economic prosperity.”
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South Carolina State House
“This fight is a straightforward, fair election versus Democrat manipulation,” Evette added.
The subcommittee ultimately signaled support for the legislation in a 3-2 vote that prompted heckles from the peanut gallery.
The full South Carolina House Judiciary Committee subsequently took up the matter.
Ahead of the state lawmakers’ meeting, President Donald Trump noted on Truth Social, “I’m watching closely, along with all Republicans across the Country who are counting on their Elected Leaders to use every Legal and Constitutional authority they have to stop the Radical Left Democrats from destroying our Country, including leveling the playing field against their decades of egregious Gerrymandering and Census Rigging.”
“South Carolina Republicans: BE BOLD AND COURAGEOUS, just like the Republicans of the Great State of Tennessee were last week!” Trump continued. “Move the U.S. House Primaries to August, leave the rest on the same schedule. Everything will be fine. GET IT DONE!”
Clyburn, now serving his 17th term and seeking re-election, is furious over the prospect of losing power.
In a series of tweets last week, the Democratic congressman complained, “Republicans are trying to break apart South Carolina’s 6th District. Not because voters demanded it, but because Donald Trump requested it.”
“This fight is bigger than one district,” Clyburn continued. “It’s about whether our democracy belongs to the people, or to politicians who change the rules when they don’t like the results. We cannot let them succeed.”
Clyburn was first elected to represent South Carolina’s 6th district after its borders were redrawn with the intention of making it a majority-black district.
Republicans are empowered to augment Clyburn’s district as the result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Callais, where the high court struck down Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and made clear that redistricting should effectively be color-blind.
Clyburn briefly dropped the alarmist shtick during a recent CNN interview, where he admitted that he could potentially still get re-elected in a district that’s not a racial gerrymander.
The 85-year-old Democrat suggested further that other Democratic candidates could benefit from new maps, telling talking head Jake Tapper, “When they finish with the redistricting, there will be the possibilities of at least three Democrats getting elected here in South Carolina to the United States Congress.”
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