Posted on 06/20/2017 6:44:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican Ralph Norman has won South Carolina’s special House election to replace Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in Congress.
Norman defeated Democrat Archie Parnell in a closer than expected race for South Carolina’s 5th Distrct on Tuesday night. Norman had 52 percent of the vote to Parnell’s 48 percent when the Associated Press called the race with 89 percent of precincts reporting.
The DCCC’s money was aimed at turning out black voters, and much of the money went towards ads on African-American radio and canvassing in heavily black parts of the district. Other national Democrats, many with their eyes on an early 2020 primary state, also campaigned for Parnell, including former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. Biden recorded a get-out-the-vote robocall.
Norman won his GOP primary against Tommy Pope, a Republican leader in the South Carolina legislature, by less than 1 percentage point in May, triggering a recount before Norman moved on to face Parnell.
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. The district swung drastically to Democrats: Mulvaney defeated former Joe Biden aide Fran Person by 21 percentage points in November, and Trump won the district by 18 percentage points.
Norman, a conservative hardliner in the state legislature who won a primary runoff against a more moderate opponent with the help of the Club for Growth, has said he would join the House Freedom Caucus if elected.
Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil employee, did not attract the same grassroots attention that boosted Jon Ossoff in Georgia and Rob Quist in Montana in other House special elections this year. The national parties largely stayed out of the race in the Republican-leaning district. The DCCC spent just under $300,000 on the race, while the NRCC and Congressional Leadership Fund spent smaller amounts.
The Democrats are screaming like girls who saw a snake crawling out of the toilet. They are creeped out until they see it is just Hilary lyin’ low.
Somebody made a ton of money in that race!
Congratulations Ralph Norman!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
Putin just cannot keep out of our elections
The voter turnout in off-year special elections is always low, so the fact that the margin of victory was only 2+ percentage points does not surprising, given also how much national money was spent by the opposition to defeat the winner; likely boosting (for no gain) the opposition vote with more enthusiasm than the winner’s voters had.
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