Kansas, South Carolina, Texas, Ohio and Iowa: States Trump won in 2024 backed Democrats in midterms

States that President Donald Trump easily won two years ago. (Bloomberg)

For a decade, the political map has been largely stagnant, locked into the same half-dozen or so political battlegrounds, reflecting a polarized, evenly divided country. On Tuesday, voters took a wrecking ball to that map, electing Democrats in states that were long considered reliably Republican. States that President Donald Trump easily won two years ago. … Read more

Navy Veteran Nancy Lacore flips Nancy Maces South Carolina House seat one year after being fired by Pete Hegseth

Former Navy Reserve chief, Nancy Lacore, wins traditionally Republican district after Pete Hegseth fired her from Pentagon in 2025.  Photographer: Gavin McIntyre/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Democrat Nancy Lacore defeated Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt to flip a traditionally GOP-held South Carolina House seat. The retired Navy admiral was removed from her Pentagon role under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in 2025. Former Navy Reserve chief, Nancy Lacore, wins traditionally Republican district after Pete Hegseth fired her from Pentagon in 2025. Photographer: Gavin … Read more

Roy Cooper flips key North Carolina seat beating Trump-backed Michael Whatley

Democrats flip North Carolina Senate seat as battle for chamber takes shape. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Democrats won major Senate races in North Carolina and Georgia, but it remained unclear whether the party would succeed in wresting control of the chamber from President Donald Trump’s Republicans with millions of votes still uncounted in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Democrats flip North Carolina Senate seat as battle for chamber takes shape. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg … Read more

Annie Andrews wins late Lindsay Graham's South Carolina Senate seat, as Democrats taste victory after over two decades

Annie Andrews wins late Lindsey Graham’s South Carolina Senate seat for Democrats after two decades. (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (Getty Images via AFP)

Democrat Annie Andrews won South Carolina’s US Senate seat on Tuesday, a stunning victory over President Donald Trump‘s hand-picked candidate Darline Graham in a state that he carried by nearly 18 percentage points just two years ago. Annie Andrews wins late Lindsey Graham’s South Carolina Senate seat for Democrats after two decades. (Photo by WIN … Read more

Michael Whatley's journey from RNC chairman to Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina

Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley is running in North Carolina's 2026 midterm election. (Kent Nishimura/Pool Photo via AP) (Kent Nishimura/POOL AFP via AP)

Michael David Whatley is a representative of the Republican Party in the state of North Carolina, where he will be competing for a Senate seat against Roy Cooper. He served as chief of staff to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole from 2004 to 2007. He later went on to become chairman of the North Carolina Republican … Read more

In 2024, North Carolina sank the 106-foot tugboat Thomas Dann off Cape Lookout; it joined two older ships and 1,700 tons of concrete at a reef

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In 2014, South Carolina sent 36 retired armored carriers to reefs off Beaufort and Hilton Head; they joined sites built with surplus military gear

A 2014 project repurposed 36 obsolete armored vehicles as artificial reef material off South Carolina. The vehicles joined a partnership’s hundreds of previous deployments, which had created more than 1.12 million cubic feet of reef habitat since 1997. Officials also cited tourism and recreation benefits. (AI-generated/ChatGPT)

On September 4, 2014, 36 ex-military armored carriers were sunk into the ocean floor off South Carolina. These were sunk into the Atlantic Ocean off Beaufort for the purpose of creating more artificial reefs, providing hard surfaces for marine life to attach to. The operation was carried out in cooperation with the South Carolina Army … Read more

Emergency response triggered at South Carolina nuclear site after fire erupts at lab

Emergency response triggered at US Department of Energy industrial complex near Aiken, South Carolina after ‘radiological release’ (Unsplash - representational image)

A “radiological release” triggered a “site area emergency” response at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina, Wednesday evening, October 28. News 12 was told that it is not a danger to the public outside the vast SRS border, Emergency response triggered at US Department of Energy industrial complex near Aiken, … Read more

In 2008, South Carolina fixed a curving, rain-prone mile of US 25 for $1 million; wet crashes fell 68%, total crashes went down 56%

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Jonathan Miller: North Carolina state Senate candidate live-posts his armed standoff with cops; arrested after fleeing into woods

Jonathan Miller: North Carolina state Senate candidate live-posts his armed standoff with cops (Jonathan D Miller/X)

A North Carolina state Senate candidate live-posted his own armed standoff with police on Monday, October 26. Jonathan D. Miller, the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina’s 16th Senate District in the suburbs of Raleigh, posted shocking updates from the woods as he claimed officers were closing in on him. Jonathan Miller: North Carolina state Senate … Read more