Lowcountry lawmaker to run for SC Democract Joe Cunningham's US House seat
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A Republican state representative with connections to President Donald Trump hopes to unseat South Carolina’s newest Democratic congressman in 2020.
Republican state Rep. Nancy Mace of Daniel Island filed paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission to run for South Carolina’s coastal 1st District congressional seat, currently held by U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham, a Charleston Democrat in his first term.
Elected to the State House to represent Berkeley and Charleston counties in a 2018 special election, Mace had been heavily courted by national GOP groups to challenge Cunningham, The State first reported.
Cunningham pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the 2018 midterms, reclaiming the seat that had been held by a Republican for four decades.
Read more: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article231764903.html
(The State - Columbia)
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