{"id":73675,"date":"2026-05-18T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/redistricting-debate-shifts-to-south-carolina-as-republicans-seek-clean-sweep-of-house-seats-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:56:22","slug":"redistricting-debate-shifts-to-south-carolina-as-republicans-seek-clean-sweep-of-house-seats-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/redistricting-debate-shifts-to-south-carolina-as-republicans-seek-clean-sweep-of-house-seats-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP to target seat held by Jim Clyburn, the only Democrat among the state\u2019s seven representatives in the House<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s election day in Kentucky\u2019s fourth congressional district tomorrow and the race for the Republican representative is between the <strong>incumbent Thomas Massie \u2013 a consistent thorn in Trump\u2019s side \u2013 and Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p> Massie is hosting a pulled pork and chicken dinner for his supporters at Veteran\u2019s Memorial Park tonight to talk about what he hopes to achieve in congress, while <strong>defense secretary Pete Hegseth is expected on the ground in Kentucky at 1pm to support Gallrein<\/strong>. Hegseth and Gallrein will appear together at an event organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/America1stWorks\/status\/2055714762969710830\">America First Works<\/a>, a conservative grassroots advocacy organization. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Representatives Lauren Boebart and Warren Davidson stood by Massie during a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MassieforKY\/status\/2056189934201872673?s=20\">campaign event Sunday<\/a><\/strong>, as Trump continued to lambast him on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThird Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116591756607268698\">said Trump<\/a>. \u201cMust be thrown out of office, ASAP!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The chances appear higher for Trump and Gallrein. On Saturday, <strong>Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who voted to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment over the January insurrection, was voted out of his primary election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taiwan would \u201cwelcome\u201d an opportunity for its leader to speak to US president Donald Trump after he raised the possibility, a senior Taiwanese diplomat said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/18\/donald-trump-redistricting-south-carolina-iran-healthcare-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP to target seat held by Jim Clyburn, the only Democrat among the state\u2019s seven representatives in the House Sign up for the Breaking News US email It\u2019s election day in Kentucky\u2019s fourth congressional district tomorrow and the race for the Republican representative is between the incumbent Thomas Massie \u2013 a consistent thorn in Trump\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/redistricting-debate-shifts-to-south-carolina-as-republicans-seek-clean-sweep-of-house-seats-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}