ALEXANDRIA, VA (January 19, 2024) — CPAC Foundation’s latest analysis reveals large gaps in the voting patterns of Republicans in South Carolina. For example, while rank and file House Republicans overwhelmingly scored between 50-70%%, a small minority of members broke away from this range and scored higher than 90%.

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“South Carolina is consistently disappointing as most elected Republicans fail to deliver and spend too much time fighting each other instead of the Left,“ said CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp.

CPAC recognizes several South Carolina state legislators for their conservative voting records. The following members of the South Carolina State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Excellence for voting with the conservative position at least 90% of the time during the 2023 session

Senate:

Ronnie Cromer (100%)

Mike Reichenbach (100%)

Richard Cash (90%)

Thomas Corbin (90%)

Daniel Verdin (90%)

House:

Thomas Beach (100%)

April Cromer (100%)

Stewart Jones (100%)

Jay Kilmartin (100%)

Josiah Magnuson (100%)

RJ May (100%)

Adam Morgan (100%)

T. Alan Morgan (100%)

Jordan Pace (100%)

Ashley Trantham (100%)

Joe White (100%)

James Burns (92%)

Donald McCabe Jr. (92%)

Robert Harris (91%)

Additionally, many lawmakers in the South Carolina State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Achievement for voting with the conservative position at least 80% of the time during the 2023 session. Their names are highlighted in gray in the scorecard.

The bills featured in CPAC’s 2023 Ratings of South Carolina address school choice, the protection of life, and national security. These issues, coupled with our mission to protect life, liberty, property and uphold the American family, created the basis by which the CPAC Foundation rated the South Carolina legislature.

The Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), an initiative of the CPAC Foundation, is the premier organization for holding lawmakers accountable. The CLA produces the longest-running conservative congressional scorecard and our state program is the only one in the nation that scores all 8,000 lawmakers in the 50 states across every policy area.