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SC Lede: Redistricting and You

House lawmakers voted 96-14 to approve their new district map in light of 2020 Census data. The map merges 10 districts, which may lead to primary challenges, and is forecasted to give Republicans a supermajority in the future. The House is made up of 81 Republicans and 43 Democrats currently.
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House lawmakers voted 96-14 to approve their new district map in light of 2020 Census data. The map merges 10 districts, which may lead to primary challenges, and is forecasted to give Republicans a supermajority in the future. The House is made up of 81 Republicans and 43 Democrats currently.

This edition of the South Carolina Lede for December 4, 2021 features: analysis of the current redistricting maps before state lawmakers; an update on the status of legal challenges against federal vaccine mandates; a break down of the Twitter fight this week between Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA); and more.

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.