Topic: South Carolina
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney sought to create doubts about rival Newt Gingrich among South Carolina conservatives on Saturday by criticizing his high-paid work for mortgage giant Freddie Mac.Romney, on a two-day tour of South Carolina ...
GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warmed up his tepid campaign in South Carolina on Friday with the endorsement of Republican Governor Nikki Haley, winning a key ally for a tough fight."We've been hoping for this for a ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was about 10 minutes into a foreign policy speech in South Carolina on Thursday when she was drowned out by the shouting of protesters.About 30 people rose in unison and began ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off the 2012 Republican presidential race, according to CNN/Time/ORC polls released on Wednesday.Barely more than two months before the first nominating contest, Romney has ...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina Republicans Monday announced they will hold their presidential primary on January 21 as states jostle for increased influence in the presidential nominating process.Defying national party leaders, Florida Friday set its primary election for January 31.But ...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina Republicans on Monday announced they will hold their U.S. presidential primary on January 21, making the move to keep their contest ahead of Florida's primary contest.Defying national party leaders, Florida on Friday set its primary ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney praised Boeing's new airplane assembly plant in South Carolina on Monday and criticized President Barack Obama for putting "labor stooges" on the board that is suing the company for building there.The ...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Deeply conservative South Carolina, home to an early and often decisive Republican presidential primary, could be Rick Perry country in 2012.The Texas governor's surge in national opinion polls since entering the Republican presidential race last month is ...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Rick Santorum got credit for showing up and won a 2012 presidential straw poll of party activists in the crucial early voting state of South Carolina, organizers said on Saturday.Santorum, a conservative from Pennsylvania, was the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the latest evidence of the sputtering start to the 2012 White House race, Republicans will hold their first candidate debate on Thursday with a depleted line-up without the party's most high-profile contenders.The nationally televised debate in South Carolina ...