{"id":41863,"date":"2021-05-17T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=41863"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:49:01","slug":"trumper-lin-wood-soundly-defeated-in-race-for-sc-gop-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=41863","title":{"rendered":"Trumper Lin Wood Soundly Defeated in Race for SC GOP Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/15\/south-carolina-gop-chair-mckissick-488485\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/02\/lin-wood-south-carolina-race-485189\" target=\"_blank\">bid to bring \u201cchaos\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to South Carolina\u2019s GOP was halted on Saturday when he failed to unseat the party\u2019s chairman after baselessly accusing the incumbent of voter fraud and a host of other slurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chairman Drew McKissick\u2019s reelection was not in doubt among knowledgeable Republicans who say the party delegate rules favor longtime insiders. Wood, an accomplished trial lawyer from Georgia who turned into a conspiracy theorist, moved this year from Georgia and mounted an unexpectedly strong candidacy for a complete outsider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McKissick beat Wood by a final vote of 68-28 percent at the low-key socially distanced convention in Columbia, where coronavirus social distancing rules prevented the delegates from meeting in one large hall \u2014 something Wood pushed for to take advantage of his fire-breathing, crowd-riling style. Votes were held in satellite meetings throughout the state\u2019s 46 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDrew is a cheater,\u201d Wood, without evidence, said to his huge following on Telegram before the vote. \u201cIf he \u2018wins\u2019 today, he will be a Fake Chairman just like Biden is a Fake President!\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood\u2019s\u00a0bid to bring \u201cchaos\u201d\u00a0to South Carolina\u2019s GOP was halted on Saturday when he failed to unseat the party\u2019s chairman after baselessly accusing the incumbent of voter fraud and a host of other slurs. Chairman Drew McKissick\u2019s reelection was not in doubt among knowledgeable Republicans who say the party delegate rules favor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41864,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions\/41864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}