GREENVILLE — A Republican running for governor says South Carolina should join the Texas effort to gerrymander out Democratic congressional seats, which in the Palmetto State could mean ousting longtime Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn.
Such a move would leave a state that is about 30 percent Black without a Black representative in Washington.
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman said he wants state lawmakers to redraw the state’s maps, arguing a 7-0 Republican-favored congressional map would align more with Republicans’ dominance in the Statehouse.
Norman, who launched his bid for governor July 27, told Fox News Digital on Aug. 6 that since the Statehouse has Republican supermajorities in both chambers, GOP leadership should gut Clyburn's 6th Congressional District in the interest of changing the