There are no statewide candidates in South Carolina this year, allowing the state’s two major parties to focus on local races. Seventeen of the 170 legislative district races will be especially competitive.

The 2024 race for the White House is coming down to its final months, with early voting in South Carolina set to begin in less than 50 days. Tuesday was the deadline for political parties to submit certified candidates’ names to the State Election Commission to be printed on the ballot.

However in the state Legislature, where all 170 House and Senate seats are up for election this year, only a handful of General Assembly seats will be truly competitive in November’s elections, because of the way most state legislative districts are drawn in South Carolina.

There has been an onslaught of anti-voter laws sweeping the South following the U.S. Supreme Court's disastrous 2013 decision stripping away critical protections against discrimination in elections.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham helped broker peace between two longtime foes of the same party: former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp

After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this fall is becoming much clearer. The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president will focus almost all of their remaining time and resources on a small collection of undecided voters in just seven states.

The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president will focus almost all of their remaining time and resources on a small collection of undecided voters in just seven states.

At a moment when presidential campaigns traditionally formulate their closing arguments, Kamala Harris is still making her introductions. The vice president has flipped the enthusiasm gap, the money gap and the polling gap in her favor in the six weeks since she replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will devote almost all of their remaining time and resources with just two months to go until the U.S. presidential election to just seven states that are seen as the most impactful to winning the electoral college.

North Carolina’s shift to the left has largely been credited to a population increase among potential voters who typically back Democrats—including the highly educated—especially from a 5.6% increase since 2020 near the “research triangle” area of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, according to the Brookings Institution.

The contest between the vice president and Donald Trump in Georgia and North Carolina is essentially tied, a stark turnaround from when Joe Biden was running.

With Labor Day traditionally signifying the beginning of the end of the presidential election cycle, the campaigns will fan out across the country this week in a rush of activity.