Posted on 05/22/2026 1:35:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
The South Carolina Senate just killed a critical motion to expedite the Trump-backed congressional redistricting effort, putting the entire push for a bold 7-0 Republican map in serious jeopardy as Democrats and their weak-kneed GOP enablers drag their feet past the start of early voting on Tuesday, May 26.
State Rep. Adam Morgan blasted the vote and sounded the alarm:
“South Carolina Senate KILLS motion to expedite Redistricting! This puts the entire effort in serious jeopardy. 6 Republicans voted with Dems to kill it… The motion would [have] suspended Rule 15b to allow immediate cloture. Without this they can drag the debate out past the start of early voting (Tues, 5/26). This 25-15 vote failed to meet the required 2/3 threshold. Luke Rankin (R-Horry) did not vote.”
The six Republican traitors who voted with the Democrats to block the motion and protect the status quo are:
Rex Rice (Pickens) Shane Massey (Edgefield) Sean Bennett (Dorchester) Chip Campsen (Charleston) Tom Davis (Beaufort) Greg Hembree (Horry)
This is the same crew of weaklings (plus one new addition) who previously blocked efforts to extend the session, as The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month when five of them handed Democrats a temporary win and defied massive pressure from President Donald Trump himself.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the South Carolina House just rammed through a bold new 7-0 Republican congressional map – a direct strike at far-left Rep. Jim Clyburn’s unconstitutional, race-based 6th District stronghold. Governor Henry McMaster even called an emergency special session to force the issue and secure a clean Republican sweep of all seven U.S. House seats in the Palmetto State.
But these Senate RINOs just can’t help themselves. They’d rather side with Democrats, protect entrenched power, and risk losing ground for conservatives across the country than deliver the fair maps South Carolinians deserve ahead of the 2026 midterms.
South Carolinians – it’s time to flood the phones and inboxes of these holdouts and demand they VOTE TO CLOTURE NOW! No more delays. No more excuses. No more RINO sabotage.
Here’s their contact information:
Rex Rice (Pickens) (803) 212-6116 rexrice@scsenate.gov
Shane Massey (Edgefield) (803) 212-6330 shanemassey@scsenate.gov
Sean Bennett (Dorchester) (803) 212-6410 SeanBennett@scsenate.gov
Chip Campsen (Charleston) (803) 212-6340 chipcampsen@scsenate.gov
Tom Davis (Beaufort) (803) 212-6080 tomdavis@scsenate.gov
Greg Hembree (Horry) 803-212-6350 GregHembree@scsenate.gov
Luke Rankin (Horry) (803) 212-6610 lukerankin@scsenate.gov
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All Bush-era RINOs have got to be primaried out. And any new RINOs, too.
Greg Hembree. I’ll remember that name. He needs to be primaried.
Check their bank accounts and family members bank accounts. Bribery was probably at work
I feel like much of the GOP is now at open war with Trump. They’ve been at war with him from the beginning, I suppose, but I think they tried to be subtle about it. Now the gloves are off.
This post has been up for 30+ minutes. It appears all these senators are safe until ‘28 as they elect 100% of them every 4 years. Will the SC voters remember like the La. voters did regarding Cassidy? It appears all but one of these turncoats is no younger than age 59 so it’s not that they have a lot to lose. Recall a possibility. Remember Biden flooded the country with illegals so that we would be too overwhelmed to fix it much less govern.
It’s not what they did. It’s what we can do about it.
The one good thing about this (and what’s happened in other places) is that the died in the wool Rinos are outing themselves. Now it is up to the people to remove them at the next election. That is the only way we move forward. The democrats that call themselves republicans are ensconced deeply within the Republican Party and have been for decades
The Deep State is deep.
DemocRATS/demoKKKrats, RINOs, Boasbergers, Drive-By Media. They all embrace The Party of Hate - The Party of Death.
If they do not manage to kill President Trump, more of them will be put out to pasture.
These DNC secret agents, moles HAVE TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE and replaced with better and far more honest people!
We are giving $$$$ to what appear to be good candidates.
We are not giving a single thin dime to GOP-E RINOs.
Not a cent. Let SorozNazi and the DNC fund the rest of their campaigns.
The biggest enemy of the Republican voter, after demoncraps, is the GOP.
Yep. Consider the clown House Speaker from Wisconsin, Paul Ryan. He proudly declared himself a never-Trumper, quit congress and was handsomely rewarded with a seat at Fox corporate.
They couldn’t have a Willy or a Sam.
Are any of these RINO buying a new boat?
The 45 Communist Goals #15:
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
These red district senators have to be represented in the house by republicans also. Take it out on those house members-primary or in November. What’s wrong with blowing a few of them for 2 years while still maintaining the majority? They can blame the senators. Make the house members unemployed for 2 years so they can extract their revenge by challenging those turncoats in ‘28. Again most are age 59 or older. They can make those ‘time with the family’ decisions in 2 years. Think about it. This is war. Think Patton slapping the soldier.
understood.
if the D’s would vote normally and NOT as a disruptive Communist Party with such tight enforced block voting 1000 to 0....
that is, if we had a functional Congress....
this would not be such a critical issue, problem for us
our republic’s founding fathers feared the development of this kind of lockstep jackbooted political parties in America....(and this was prescient of them, coming as they did before European Communist and Nazi parties arose...)
As George Washington warned us:
“ However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. “
Farewell Address | Saturday, September 17, 1796
And,
“ There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” -John Adams in letter to Johnathan Jackson, 1780.
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a political party, I would decline to go.” -Thomas Jefferson letter to Francis Hopkinson, 1789
“Party knows no impulse but spirit, no prize but victory. It is blind to truth, and hardened against conviction. It seeks to justify error by perseverance, and denies to its own mind the operation of its own judgment. A man under the tyranny of party spirit is the greatest slave upon the earth, for none but himself can deprive him of the freedom of thought.” -Thomas Paine, The Opposers of the Bank, 1787.
TRUE BLUE Republicans.
I NEVER saw the BLUE until Trump came along.
Trump brings out the best in the good and worst in the bad.
These are the old ‘Country Club Blue-Blood Republicans’, go along to get along, don’t make any waves, just vote the way we tell you to and everything will be just fine and dandy...............
Bingo. An astute observation. Tom Davis (Beaufort) represents my district. Although he spews high minded objections to redistricting, he’s more concerned about saving his own a@@. He’s gotta go.
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