House Race Pits Black Republican Against Son of Strom Thurmond- Bloomberg

The district, which stretches along South Carolina’s coast, “is a Republican seat,” said Brian McGee, a professor with an expertise in political communication at the College of Charleston. No Democrat has held the seat since 1981.

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