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  IF REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE AND CHEAT, NO ONE  WOULD VOTE FOR THEM! Statement from Brandon Brown Addressing Trump’s Latest Post on Truth Social FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12 COLUMBIA, S.C. —   “Donald Trump told the truth tonight, just not in the way he intended. He admitted that he is personally monitoring South Carolina’s redistricting process as Republicans attempt to redraw congressional maps ahead of the census for one reason: to manipulate the system and protect Republican power in Washington. Then, in classic Trump fashion, he accused Democrats of the very thing Republicans have been doing for decades. Republicans have controlled the South Carolina state government and overseen the last two rounds of redistricting. So when Trump talks about ‘egregious gerrymandering and census rigging,’ he is projecting his party’s own actions onto everyone else. Everything broken, corrupt, and underperforming in South Carolina is the product of failed Republican leadership. They ha...

  South Carolina Republicans Are Redrawing the Rules to Stay in Power Brandon Brown for SC May 10 South Carolina Republicans are once again trying to rig the rules because they are afraid of the voters. This week, the South Carolina legislature moved forward with efforts to redraw the state’s congressional maps in the middle of the decade, not because communities asked for it, not because the census changed, but because Donald Trump and his allies believe manipulating district lines can help them hold onto power in Washington. Republican lawmakers in Columbia are openly discussing redrawing South Carolina’s congressional districts after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling weakened protections for majority-Black districts under the Voting Rights Act.   Let’s call this what it is: an attack on democracy. The target is obvious. South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, represented by Congressman Jim Clyburn and home to large numbers of Black voters, is now at the center of a co...