SC Democratic Party

This week author and journalist Carolyn Click joins us to talk about her new book, The Cost of the Vote: George Elmore and the Battle for the Ballot (2025, USC Press). Elmore's story is that of a man who believed, with uncommon boldness, that he and other Black Americans were guaranteed the right to vote. He volunteered to become the plaintiff in the NAACP lawsuit that successfully challenged the all-white Democratic primary in South Carolina in 1946.Carolyn centers her story on Elmore, his family, his neighbors, and the activists and lawyers who filed the suit. Although Elmore's court challenge would prove successful, he and his family paid a steep personal price.

More than 1 million of South Carolina's more than 3.4 million registered voters have cast early ballots in the 2024 general election, according to the State Election Commission.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 22, 2024: we bring you comments from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz from Wednesday evening; we also hear from South Carolina’s own Jaime Harrison and two of our delegates; and more!

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 21, 2024: speeches from night two at the DNC, including remarks from both Michelle and Barack Obama; an exclusive interview with Congressman Jim Clyburn; we also hear from Maryland Gov. Wes Moore who fired up South Carolina Democrats this morning; and more!

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 19, 2024: we are here in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention where members of the SC delegation are here to formally nominate VP Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the Democratic Party’s ticket; remarks from SCDP Chairwoman Christale Spain and California Congressman Ro Khanna; we also hear from one of our delegates, former Charleston Sen. Marlon Kimpson; and more!

The Democratic National Convention starts Aug. 19 in Chicago.

Of the 13 primary runoff races June 25, eight are Senate races and four are House races.

Democrats in South Carolina may be holding the nation's first presidential primary. But the party is struggling inside the Southern state.

The special election to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. John Scott's District 19 Richland County seat was held Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.

Christale Spain, a longtime party operative, has been elected as chair of South Carolina's Democratic Party. She became the first Black woman to lead the organization in what will be the Democrats' leadoff presidential voting state in 2024. With her election Saturday, and thanks to the party's recent revamp of its primary schedule, four of the five states in which Democrats will vote first next year — Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and South Carolina — now have Black women chairing their state parties.