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Posted on 11/17/2021 1:26:39 PM PST by devane617
Daniel Rickenmann, a Republican businessman, on Tuesday defeated Democratic attorney Tameika Isaac Devine by 4 points to become Columbia's next mayor. A slew of prominent national Democrats, including Obama, Clyburn, and Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison, backed Devine in the race.
The result shows that Democrats' plummeting popularity extends even to areas the party has historically dominated. Obama, who in a Monday audio message urged Columbia voters to "make history again by showing up for Tameika Isaac Devine," won the city's county by 29 points in 2008 and 33 points in 2012. Clyburn, meanwhile, resides in Columbia and has represented major portions of the city since 1993. The Democrat secured reelection by nearly 38 points in 2020. Just four years ago, Republicans did not challenge Rickenmann's predecessor, Democratic mayor Stephen Benjamin.
Following Rickenmann's win, South Carolina GOP chairman Drew McKissick said it's "safe to say the red wave is bigger than ever, and we eagerly expect to continue beating Democrats across South Carolina in 2022."
Damn, this means blacks are crossing over.
Columbia where?
South Carolina
Well that’s good news.
The leading sentence just below the headline says “... Colombia, S.C.”
If we don’t run we can’t win
see my tagline...bee saying it for a long time.
Damn, this means blacks are crossing over.
Thank you Lord and President Trump!!!! Now, if Kim Klacik from Baltimore can break through and get the House seat in her next run that would be something.....and get Clyburn OUT of the Congress! I’m sick of that Commie bystard sell out
WE need to be in charge of "public education"
Apparently the rat candidate actually believed that blacks vote 95% rat.
The Obama midas touch continues.
Unfortunately, Republicans, AND MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, Conservatives need to win a lot more city political races and from now on, in order to, actually, create True Betterment, throughout as many U.S. cities as is possible, ASAP! It’s pathetic that The Left, of both major U.S. political parties, continues to dominate all city voting results, despite all of the ongoing problems that continue to exist, throughout most U.S. cities and with no actual end to city troubles in sight!
This GOP mayoral win shows that Democrats’ plummeting popularity extends even to areas the party has historically dominated.
Obama won the city’s county by 29 points in 2008 and 33 points in 2012......so endorsing loser Tameika Isaac Devine looked like a sure thing.
the South will rise again!!!!!
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Quite the surprise. I don’t think there has been a GOP Mayor of Columbia, SC since Reconstruction.
I wish but it probably means dem (black) turnout was low and that whites gave a large edge to the GOP. The city is only 40% black.
Over in VA a couple weeks ago the GOP picked up a few state house seats with a high black%, apparently turnout in the blackest precincts was crap.
Looks to me like black citizens are starting to come home to the Republican party...
But the problem is that in Columbia, the Whites are urban leftists like in so many other state capitals. Most of those Whites that held office as state Reps as Republicans have since been voted out in the past decade (indeed, there is only 1 Republican (Kirkman Finlay 3d, son of a former Republican-turned-Dem Mayor) left in representing any part of Richland County, and he won by 1% in 2020, down from 19% in 2016 - and he was the nominee for Mayor back in 2010). They would vote for the biggest Black moonbat and degenerate if they could, so it makes the victory of a White male Republican all the more astonishing.
A cursory check indicates that a Republican, Patton Adams, did apparently last hold the office from 1986-1990, before being defeated by long-time White Dem Mayor Bob Coble, so he would’ve been the sole Republican elected since Reconstruction until the present gentleman.
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