South Carolina Republicans won all three special elections in the state’s legislature on Tuesday, with the party saying the results “send a clear message.”
Reps. John Lastinger, Dianne Mitchell, and Sen. Lee Bright all handily won their races, with 8,729 ballots cast.
Mitchell and Bright garnered over 70 and 67 percent respectively, with no one else on either ballot. The remainder of the votes went to various write-in candidates.
Lastinger, a pastor, beat Democrat retired Army Col. Joseph “Chuck” Hightower 62-37, with less than one percent going to write-in candidates.
Voter turnout was low, with just about seven percent of registered voters in…
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