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Haley Wins GOP Nod for Governor in SC
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBIA, S.C. (June 22) -- In a clear sign of the South's racial progress, Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, to run for governor in South Carolina and easily nominated Tim Scott, in line to become the former Confederate state's first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Six-term Republican Rep. Bob Inglis fell to prosecutor Trey Gowdy, making him the 5th House or Senate incumbent to stumble this year. In North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall won the Democratic nomination to challenge GOP Sen. Richard Burr in the fall. And Utah ...
Nikki Haley Finishes First in South Carolina GOP Primary, Faces Runoff
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyIn one of the most-watched races in the country – for reasons that have nothing to do with actual issues – Nikki Haley finished first in the Republican gubernatorial primary in South Carolina on Tuesday. Recent accusations of infidelity and a GOP state senator's ethnic slur only seemed to strengthen the campaign of the 38-year-old Haley, who won close to half of the vote. But though she finished far in front of the other three candidates, she did not get the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff. State Rep. Haley will face second-place finisher U.S. Rep. Gresham ...
Haley Spokesman Calls Text Messages Figment of Folks' Imagination
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyThe latest South Carolina political sex scandal has taken a new turn, with a spokesman for Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley calling a series of text messages posted on the website of FITSNews founder and blogger Will Folks the product of an "overactive imagination" that "has gone into overdrive." "South Carolina politics is full of rumors and innuendo, and of course our campaign did everything in our power to prevent false rumors about Nikki from airing out in the media as they now have," the spokesman, Tom Pearson, wrote in an e-mail to CNN. On Monday, Folks said he had had ...
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