South Carolina's state Senate adjourned without acting on a new congressional map that would have redrawn voting districts in favor of Republicans.  Dem like to play hardball.

     President Donald Trump has called on states to redraw their voting maps to favor Republicans, especially after a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that badly weakened a part of the landmark federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 that helped protect minority voting power.  However, as voters started heading to the polls Tuesday for the first in-person voting in primaries, state senators said it was just too late. If the state Senate pushed the map through Tuesday, the state would have had to throw out tens of thousands of ballots that had already been cast that day and schedule a new primary.. [

     Neither my conscience nor my common sense would allow me to stop an election that is already underway," Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said during the vote, The BBC reported.  The new congressional map pitched for South Carolina would do away with the state's only majority Black district, which is represented by Rep. James Clyburn, a Democrat. Clyburn is seeking his 18th term in office this year.