2022 SC Governor's race: on Principles & Values


James Emerson Smith: Lost governor race by 8%; but most Dem candidates in decade

S.C. Democrats say state Rep. James Smith's 8-percentage-point loss to Republican Gov. Henry McMaster Tuesday night was not a complete defeat. While a Democrat still hasn't been elected S.C. governor in 20 years, the party celebrated its largest number of candidates to run for elected office--349--in more than a decade.

Democrats also flipped a few seats in the Legislature, including a long-held GOP seat in the state Senate, now held by former state Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian. And, in an historic upset in a district Republicans had won for almost 40 years, Democrat Joe Cunningham won the 1st District seat in the U.S. House, where he will join the state's only other Democratic congressman, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of Columbia.

Democrat Smith was outspent 3 to 1 by Republican Gov. McMaster but still managed to almost cut in half the GOP's margin of victory from 2014.

Source: The State on 2022 South Carolina Gubernatorial race Nov 11, 2018

Joe Cunningham: Pols more interested in keeping their jobs than doing it

In his final speech on the House floor, Cunningham slammed partisanship. He said he witnessed his colleagues "embracing conspiracy theories or arguments detached from reality while knowing better and sometimes admitting so privately." He called it a form of "self-preservation" from people he says are "more interested in protecting themselves and their party than protecting our country, more interested in keeping their job than doing their job."
Source: WIS News 10 on 2022 South Carolina Gubernatorial Race Apr 21, 2021

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Candidates and political leaders on Principles & Values:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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