South Carolina Republicans have defied President Trump and blocked the effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps.
Here’s the news via the BBC:
Republicans in South Carolina have defied US President Donald Trump ahead of the November midterm elections by blocking a measure to redraw voting maps in their favour.
They allowed the state’s only Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Jim Clyburn, to keep his seat intact, foiling Republican chances of gaining another seat in the House.
They cited the fact that some South Carolinians were already heading out to the polls.
With the midterms less than six months away, the two parties are locked in a fight to gain control of the House by having states redraw their voting maps, in a process known as redistricting.
It was a second victory for Democrats, with an Alabama court also temporarily blocking voting maps that it ruled were “intentionally discriminatory”. Republicans in Alabama have already appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court.
Yep. Kinda felt like this was going to happen.