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Early voting continued its unprecedented surge in South Carolina as the window to vote ahead of election day neared its closing point. Through Friday (November 1, 2024) – the next-to-last day of early voting in the Palmetto State – more than 1.3 million registered voters had already banked their ballots, according to data from SCVotes.gov. That total included a record 134,642 voters who cast their ballots on Friday.
All told, 39.5 percent of the state’s 3.42 million-strong electorate has already voted. Meanwhile, the early voting total so far stood at 53.3 percent of the turnout from the 2020 presidential election, when 2.53 million South Carolinians voted.
Final numbers will be released by the S.C. Election Commission after today’s vote totals are tabulated.
Courtesy of our intrepid research director Jenn Wood, here’s a look at the data and how it compares to the numbers seen during the 2024 presidential primary in February – and the partisan primary races in June.
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Obviously, South Carolina’s nine electoral votes are already in the bag for former U.S. president Donald Trump.
The GOP nominee – who won 55 percent of the vote en route to victories in 2016 and 2020 – is a lock to prevail in the Palmetto State. In fact, no Democrat has carried South Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976 – a streak Kamala Harris isn’t going to break.
Where are all of these early ballots being case? Jenn’s got you covered there, too…
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Nationally, more than 73.3 million early votes had been cast across the country as of 3:34 p.m. EDT on Saturday, per data from the University of Florida Election Lab. In the states where voters register by party, 36.5 million votes had been cast – 38.2 percent of them by Democrats, 36 percent by Republicans and 25.8 percent by those unaffiliated with either party.
That’s a massive uptick in early voting for the GOP… although its impact on the upcoming presidential race remains unclear. With election day now less than 72 hours away, keep it tuned to FITSNews as we await the climax of what has been the wildest political ride in recent memory…
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THE NUMBERS…
(S.C. Election Commission)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and seven children.
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Not that it’ll do much good in this state but hey, show up and vote against fascism anyways. Be on the right side of history.
How would you convince me to vote for Kamala? What’s your argument?
You would not see it on this site, Fox, News Max, or the other right-wing sites, But….
In new audio tapes obtained by the Daily Beast from author, Michael Wolff, Jeffrey Epstein claimed that Donald Trump was his “closest friend.” He also said Trump was “charming,” and “always fun” but an ultimately friendless person who liked to “fuck the wives of his best friends.”
In honor of the season, every time a Christian defends Trump an Angel loses its wings.
Well what if I told the media you were my closest friend, would that be true? How much weight would you put into something Jeffrey Epstein said? Oprah and Obama were friends of Diddy’s… and attended Diddy parties. Will they be on the videos obtained in the searches? Did Diddy cornhole Barry while Oprah sucked Big Mike’s dick?
There is a lot more. Epstein had numerous conversations with Trump while he was in the White House. Trump is listed numerous times on the logs of travelers on Epstein’s plane. Epstein found several of his girls at parties he was invited to at Mar A Lago. One of Epstein’s girls claims she was molested at a party by Trump while Epstein laughed. Not to mention the numerous pictures of Trump with Epstein in public and at parties. Trump never criticized Epstein or Maxwell, and after she was convicted of procuring women for Epstein, Trump still wished her well.
Wolff says there is a lot more to come. But let’s face it. This is surely no surprise to you or anyone. Trump literally started his political career bragging about molesting women. He is the only President in history to be accused of rape, under oath and to have been found by a jury to have sexually assaulted a woman.
These are not like the BS right-wing made-up crap. Trump has a history of being a sexual predator, and “admiring young women” including his daughter. All public record.
That’s a lie. Give an argument for Harris without lies please.
Sorry, Bub, it’s just the nature of the guy you have chosen to support. He has had three wives with multiple affairs during each marriage. He has bragged about grabbing women by the Pu$%Y without their consent. Numerous women have accused him of molesting them. He has been found to have sexually assaulted a woman by a jury. He told Howard Stern on air, that if Ivanka was not his daughter he would “date” her. He bragged to Howard Stern, about going backstage at the Miss America pageant so that he could watch young women getting dressed. There are multiple pictures of him with Epstein at parties.
So which part of Epestein’s claim that Donald was his best friend do you find so unbelievable?
Well she did skip going to the swing state of Michigan so she could go to NYC to be on SNL last night where they plagiarized the Jimmy Fallon & Donald Trump mirror skit. I wonder if she had a teleprompter. If you missed it, when the camera panned to her she sat there and laughed hysterically for a solid minute… it went downhill from there.