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SC Lede Election 2024 Coverage

On this special South Carolina Lede series dedicated to the 2024 South Carolina Republican primary, we examine the history of our state's role in the national conversation and what makes the first-in-the-South primary so integral to the road to the White House.
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    S.C. Primary: Voters' Paradise
    Maayan Schechter
    On this episode of the South Carolina Lede forJanuary 27, 2024, SC Public Radio Reporter Maayan Schechter guest hosts. If you’re registered and voting in the SC Republican presidential primary on Feb. 24, this episode is for you! We’ve been exploring the GOP presidential primary, and why South Carolina is such an integral part of any candidate’s road to the White House.Leave us a voicemail at 803-563-7169 to share your thoughts about the topics covered on the show or just whatever's on your mind!You can subscribe to South Carolina Lede in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also follow the show on Twitter @SCLedePod.
  • Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Riverview Park Activity Center in North Augusta, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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    The Rise of Trump
    Gavin Jackson
    On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for January 2, 2024: it’s our 9th episode looking at the upcoming 2024 Republican presidential primary. We are wrapping up the history portion of our series by looking at the 2016 race, the last recent competitive Republican presidential primary; we look at how real estate billionaire and reality show TV star Donald Trump took the race, and world, by storm; and more!Leave us a voicemail at 803-563-7169 to share your thoughts about the topics covered on the show or just whatever's on your mind!You can subscribe to South Carolina Lede in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also follow the show on Twitter @SCLedePod.
  • FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2012, file photo Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with his wife Callista waves to the crowd at a Republican presidential primary night rally in Columbia, S.C., a primary he went on to easily win. GOP primary voters have spent the past six weeks lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled. The next contests, in Arizona and Michigan, aren't until Feb. 28; the party with a reputation for order may have it sorted out after March 6, when 10 states get their say. But that would break sharply with this race's tendency toward uncertainty. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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    Newt in 2012: The Streak is Broken
    Gavin Jackson
    This episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 12, 2023 is the 8th in a series that takes a look at all things related to the upcoming 2024 Republican presidential primary.Leave us a voicemail at 803-563-7169 to share your thoughts about the topics covered on the show or just whatever's on your mind!You can subscribe to South Carolina Lede in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also follow the show on Twitter @SCLedePod.
  • We love to hate political polls, but they do serve an important purpose. We dive deep into polling in our sixth SC 2024 episode with Gavin Jackson and Maayan Schechter.
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    SC 2024: Why We Love to Hate Polls
    Gavin Jackson
    On this 6th SC 2024 episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 14, 2023, host Gavin Jackson takes a look at polling: love it, hate it, we all devour it! Leave us a voicemail at 803-563-7169 to share your thoughts about the topics covered on the show or just whatever's on your mind! You can subscribe to South Carolina Lede in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also follow the show on Twitter @SCLedePod.
  • South Carolina has a reputation of dirty tricks and negative campaign advertising being involved in the political process. While some say the reputation is overblown, the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary presents a new frontier amid growing technological advancements.
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    SC Lede: Dirty Tricks & Politics
    Gavin Jackson
    October 31, 2023 — We take a look at the unsavory part of the campaigning process: the dirty tricks and the negative campaigning that, among other things, gives politics a bad name.
  • Bridging divides? The Arthur Ravenel Jr., Bridge in Charleston connects the peninsula with Mt. Pleasant. While the Charleston area Republican electorate varies ideologically, in general, from other parts of the state, it nevertheless is part of what makes the state party so representative of the national party.
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    SC Lede: Who are the SC GOP Primary Voters? Part 2
    Gavin Jackson
    October 3, 2023 — We continue our special series dedicated to the 2024 South Carolina Republican presidential primary with a look at the divisions that exist Palmetto State's party. While the Republican electorate varies ideologically from one part of the state to the next, overall South Carolina is fairly representative of the national party.
  • South Carolina is home to multiple regions and folks who make the state Republican Party a cross-section of ideologies and priorities that help the state chose the Republican nominee nearly every primary since 1980.
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    SC Lede: Who are the SC GOP Primary Voters? Part 1: Regions
    Gavin Jackson
    September 19, 2023 — We continue our special series dedicated to the 2024 South Carolina Republican presidential primary with a look at the people who make up the voting base and the regions in which they reside. South Carolina is home to folks who make the state Republican Party a cross-section of ideologies and priorities that have helped the state chose the Republican nominee nearly every primary since 1980.
  • A poll worker hands out ballot cards during voting in the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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    SC Lede: SC 2024 — What Makes SC So Important?
    Gavin Jackson
    September 5, 2023 — We begin a special series dedicated to the 2024 South Carolina Republican primary, the history of our state's role in the national conversation, and what makes the first-in-the-South primary so integral to the road to the White House.