GOP Debate Winners and Losers

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz had their first fist-fight of the 2016 campaign during Thursday night's Republican debate.


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Gov. Nikki Haley’s re-election campaign has no plans to remove a controversial volunteer who South Carolina Democrats and others say has ties to white supremacist groups.

Democrats called on Haley to dismiss Roan Garcia-Quintana of Mauldin from the Republican’s grassroots re-election committee for his ties to the Council of Conservative Citizens, ( Read more... )

Gov. Nikki Haley’s 14-year-old daughter is working in the State House gift shop, raising questions about nepotism that the governor’s office declines to answer ( Read more... )

South Carolina Gov Vetoes Abuse And Rape Prevention Funding, Calls It A DistractionLate last week, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) vetoed nearly half a million dollars that was slated to go toward domestic violence and sexual assault prevention ( Read more... )

Republican efforts to restrict contraception access, as part of the larger "war on women" campaign, has taken a considerable toll on the GOP, while giving Democrats a boost with more than half the electorate. It's not surprising, then, that Republicans would start doing some damage control.

This means making Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) a key Romney ( Read more... )

South Carolina officials plan to file suit against the federal government because the Justice Department stopped the state from implementing a voter ID law that the state’s own statistics showed would have a disparate impact on non-white voters. Fighting on their behalf will be a former DOJ official who claimed that the Civil Rights Division is ( Read more... )

Two South Carolina legislators say state employees shouldn't have to answer the phone with Gov. Nikki Haley's mandated cheery greeting unless it's truly a great day in South Carolina.

Democratic state Reps. John Richard King and Wendell Gilliard have filed legislation saying no state agency can force its employees to answer the phone with, "It's a ( Read more... )

An array of critics on Thursday accused Gov. Nikki Haley of stepping on Occupy Columbia members’ First Amendment rights more than they might have trampled vegetation on the State House grounds ( Read more... )

When Occupy Columbia protesters arrived at the State House on Oct. 15, they met little resistance from state government officials. No one from the Bureau of Protective Services or the Columbia Police Department reported problems as the participants slept overnight and marched along city streets ( Read more... )