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GREENVILLE — One of the chief architects behind a takeover of the Greenville County Republican Party that pledged support to former President Donald Trump has succumbed to COVID-19. Pressley Stutts Jr., who three weeks ago was admitted to an Upstate hospital emergency wing and regularly posted on Facebook updates about his deteriorating condition, died Aug. 19, according to a morning post on his professional page. Since mid-July, Stutts and his wife, Patty, have struggled with the health issues caused by the coronavirus that surged again this summer in the form of the highly contagious delta variant. After sharing hope his...

South Carolina Republican Pressley Stutts died of pneumonia, kidney failure and blood clots after a month in the hospital with COVID-19 Stutts had been on the ventilator for a week before his death Thursday The US Navy veteran led a group loyal to former President Donald Trump to force resignation of several Greenville County GOP leaders Stutts previously met Trump and attended January 6 demonstration in DC Stutts was vocal opponent of vaccination and mask mandates ...Pressley Stutts succumbed to the illness at Spartanburg Regional Hospital on Thursday, a week after being put on the ventilator, according to party leaders...

ne of South Carolina’s most well-known conservative activists is in an intensive care unit in the South Carolina Upstate battling the coronavirus pandemic. Pressley Stutts – leader of the Greenville Tea Party and a recently elected S.C. Republican Party (SCGOP) executive committeeman – has been hospitalized for the last five days, according to his social media. His wife has also been hospitalized with Covid-19, but is reportedly on her way home. “DETERMINED TO BEAT THIS!” Stutts posted on Facebook. “Under strict orders not to speak; need to save my breath. Can’t really return messages, but know that I deeply appreciate...