Trump's Redistricting Plot Defeated: South Carolina Republicans Rebel and Save Clyburn's District
The South Carolina Senate voted 20-24 to kill Trump's mid-decade redistricting plan that would have eliminated the state's only majority-Black district — held by 85-year-old Rep. Jim Clyburn for 34 years. Nearly a dozen Republicans joined Democrats. One of the most conservative senators in the statehouse: "Neither my conscience nor my common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already underway." Trump had already destroyed five Indiana Republicans who defied him on redistricting. The South Carolina senators voted no anyway.