President Trump asked Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps before the 2026 midterms to help protect the GOP House majority.
South Carolina’s Republican-dominated Senate said no.
On May 26, the South Carolina Senate killed a redistricting effort when a cloture vote failed 20-24, meaning the plan never even got to a final vote.
The proposed maps would have redrawn the state’s congressional districts and almost certainly targeted the seat held by Rep. Jim Clyburn, the lone Democrat in South Carolina’s seven-member U.S. House delegation.
The AP confirmed the timing and stakes of the South Carolina vote:
The Senate rejection came as early in-person voting was already beginning for South Carolina’s June 9 congressional primaries. The redistricting plan would have canceled those votes and forced a new primary under revised district lines, a move designed to give Republicans a shot at taking the one South Carolina House seat still held by a Democrat.
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