You’ve been in Congress for 33 years. After all those years, your district SC-6 is still one of the poorest in the country, lags the national average by 23% in educational attainment, and has the highest violent crime rate in the state. The only thing that hasn’t suffered is your $2.5 million net worth accumulated while in office. You will be forced into retirement, you race hustler.
Republicans in the South Carolina state legislature began the process of extending their session to allow for the redrawing of the state’s congressional map — with one goal in mind: eliminating the state’s only Democratic House district that is occupied by a Democrat.